Ranking The Howling Movies Worst To Best

8. The Howling VII: New Moon Rising (1995)

Where to even begin with The Howling VII? This is a movie so bad it is constantly on IMDb's Bottom 100 list of movies.

The seventh entry in the franchise attempts to tell the tale of residents and livestock being picked off in a California desert town. The mysterious deaths appear to coincide with the appearance of Ted, a mysterious Australian drifter.

This train wreck was written, produced and directed by Clive Turner, an Australian producer with involvement in 4 of the 8 Howling films. The entire project plays out as a huge ego trip for the man, as he also stars in the movie and every second name in the credits is his.

The film attempts to bridge the events of The Howling 4 - 6, with Turner on the trail of Mary Lou, a mysterious female werewolf. If this sounds somewhat interesting... don't be fooled. Filmed in Yucca Valley, California, the movie hired actual locals to play themselves, resulting in some truly dreadful performances.

The picture also features extended sequences of said locals line dancing, resorts to fart humor and baked bean jokes and has what just might be the worst on screen werewolf transformation in history. So little of the plot is dedicated to werewolves, it all seems to play like a strange Public Service Announcement for this tiny hick town.