Howling VI  The Freaks [1991]

Does anyone realy want Howling VI? By no means the most ludicrous, nor even the worst, of the series, this is still pretty a] ludicrous and b] bad. However, it is good for a few lycanthropic laughs thanks to its weirdo werewolf soap opera storyline, the number of other horror movie formulae worked into its hairy happenings and the fact that it's the first trashy movie influenced, via twanging score and small town shenanigans, by Twin Peaks. Ian [Brendan Hughes], the English werewolf, is on the trail of Harker [Bruce Payne], a Julian Sands impersonating vampire who runs a travelling carny. Ian winds up turning into a silly looking monster for the paying customers, and the whole thing pays off with an enjoyably old fashioned monster bashing session as the two fiends transform into their fanged forms and rip each other up.
KIM NEWMAN

First Published In: Empire [issue unknown]


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