This tedious and dull movie from the director of "Small Soldiers" stars the perpetually-depressed-looking Dee Wallace-Stone as a TV news anchor who is attacked by werewolf in a porno theater (not to be confused by the superior werewolf in a porno theater scene in "An American Werewolf in London"). Professor John Steed recommends she go up to his groovy commune for character actors to recover from her trauma, despite the fact that it means spending time with John Carradine. Nothing of any interest happened for most of the film's running time until a lengthy werewolf-transformation scene full of masturbatorial shots of sub-par make-up effects and an over-abundance of air-bladders ("An American Werewolf in London" features a much better transformation scene). Once the wererabbits show up things get a little better and the final scene is really good, but not so good as to excuse the lethargic and pointless first hour and twenty minutes of this stinkburger. It does have a lot of fun actors, most reduced to cameos, including Patrick Mcnee, Kevin McCarthy, Roger Corman, Forrest Ackerman, Dick Miller, Slim Pickens, Robert Picardo, and director Joe Dante himself. Also includes a scene where people's knowledge of werewolves is taken from Lon Chaney, jr's "The Wolf Man" (you know, like in "An American Werewolf in London").
Review of The Howling
