Howdydoodlydoo!!!! So that was some
fun-filled sequels we have been through, huh? Oh wait, no they
weren't. Still they could have been worse. Many have complained
about Howling II: Sister is a Werewolf given its plot holes,
inconsistencies and Sybil Danning's copious topless and nude
scenes. But c'mon...Reb Brown was 1970's Captain America and
Sir Christopher Lee was Dracula back-to-back smoking
werewolves that...looked really cheesy and nothing of Rick Baker's
amazing SFX. This is Howling III a.k.a. Marsupials: The Howling
III.
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| Dress me in a coat will ya??!! |
Back with director Phillippe Mora
(The Beast Within, A Breed Apart, Communion, Art Deco
Detective, Richard III, Mercenary II: Thick & Thin and Strange
Matters) and ONCE AGAIN sadly I start recognizing people
because I have seen some serious piles of monkey squirt. Well let's
dive right into this tour de force. Deep within the Australian
Outback, werewolves have evolved divergent from any other lupine and
morphed into marsupials...yup I didn't just mess with you all, female
werewolves developing pouches for holding the young.
Anthropologist
Harry Beckmeyer (Barry Otto of Benny Hill Down Under, Case for
the Defence, Tickled Pink, Norman Loves Rose, Undercover,The Punisher
and The Paper Man) managed to score grainy footage filmed in
"1905" of Aborigines burning and stabbing a wolf creature
and shows his classroom. Kinda surreal except it is clearly shot
with a higher def VHS used for broadcasting at the time.
No sooner is the class dismissed plot convenience number two appears in the form of a series of reports of
werewolf attacks in Russia giving Beckmeyer the belief of a
widespread of Commie Lycanthropes hell bent on taking over the world
and attempts to get hold of the President. Yeah that goes over
well as he explains to the President about werewolves and points out
that strange things exist all over the world. The President vows to
send Beckmeyer back to Sydney, Australia but he needs to keep the
commander-in-chief clued in on the werewolf phenomenon.
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| I'm far too excited!!! |
A doofy American name of Donny (Lee
Biolos of Les Patterson Saves the World, The Year My Voice Broke,
Dark City and Candy Regentag) is on location to scout filming
regions and local talent for a Werewolf film Shapeshifters Part 8
bumps into a striking girl Jerboa (Playing Beatie Bow, Vietnam,
Future Past, Crossbow, Strapless, Candy Regentag, Flair and Queen of
the Damned) bumps into Donny and he tells her she would be
perfect to play a werewolf (wink wink) so they are off to the
director to get her spotlight a goin'.
Plans to move on the impeding werewolf
infestation is allowing paramilitary and military divisions to join up
with financial aid from the Vatican blessing silver for rounds and
start mounting preemptive strikes after the few they have captured
and interrogated to get the location they live in.
Will Beckmeyer allow the werewolves to
be destroyed?? Will the military succeed??
Okay the effects are really less than.
Gore effects were fair but the werewolf appliances are pretty hokey
and even the giant werewolf head looked like a giant boar or pig.
Turns out the head prop was from the 1984 flick Razorback so yup
fuzzy pig. Using a polarizing filter, all the background colors
looked amazing in spite of this film was a bit on the silly.
Basing the werewolves of Australia is on the extinct Tasmanian Wolf
as it was lupine and marsupial. Other than that, I was a tad bored. The only of the Howling series that fell under PG-13.
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| These fellows stabbed a cosplayer. Savages. |
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