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Not to be confused with James Franco playing beat poet Allen Ginsberg in a film of the same title, this Howl is a 2015 low budget British indie horror about the nightmare of getting the last train of the night out of Waterloo Station.

Eragon star Ed Speleers, appearing in his second werewolf movie after unappealing sex comedy-horror Love Bites, here plays a train guard whose journey is brought to an abrupt halt thanks to the wrong kind of deer carcass on the line. Now he has to deal with a bunch of angry passengers wanting to get on with their journey. Oh, and the train is under siege from a pack of werewolves.

In terms of the train-full-of-monsters genre, Howl is hardly Train To Busan. It's more generically efficient in its horror than groundbreaking. But it clips along at a good pace, has a strong cast and well-drawn characters, as well as unusually good practical horror effects for a film of this scale and budget.

Director Paul Hyett's background is in creature effects, prosthetics and makeup, having worked frequently with Dog Soldiers director Neil Marshall. So he knows his way around how to deliver a convincing werewolf and on that level at least Howl is a big success.