10 Horror Films To Get You In The Mood For Halloween
6. Howling II: Your Sister Is A Werewolf
The ten thousandth birthday of werewolf leader Stirba (Sybil Danning) is approaching, which will cause all other werewolves to reveal themselves unless Christopher Lee, Reb Brown and Annie McEnroe venture to Transylvania to destroy her. So far, so camp, but then the narrative flies off into the stratosphere.
When she’s not flanked by naked, cooing werewolves, Danning wears shades and a leather catsuit, shoots laser beams from her fingertips and causes noses to bleed and eyeballs to rupture with a mystical chant. She can also transform gargoyles into rubbery predators that suck their victim’s intestines out through their mouths, which is all her castle seems to have in the way of security since the ‘guards’ are more likely to be found indulging their orgiastic proclivities.
A masterpiece of “so bad it’s good” filmmaking, Howling II will have you rolling around on the floor when you’re not staring open-mouthed at the indignities Lee was prepared to submit himself to. He was so embarrassed by the film, in fact, that he later apologized to Joe Dante (who directed the original) for having appeared in it.