Howling III (1987)
Genre: Horror
Duration: 94 minuten
Alternative title: The Marsupials: The Howling III
Country:
Australia
Directed by: Philippe Mora
Stars: Barry Otto, Imogen Annesley and Ralph Cotterill
IMDb score:
3,6 (6.106)
Releasedate: 15 May 1987
Howling III plot
"Just When You Thought It Was Safe To Go Down Under"
Professor Harry Beckmeyer is fascinated by the fact that a strange race - a type of wolf-like people - has been spotted in Australia. He sets out in search of the creatures and soon finds them through Jerboa, a young lady who is on the run and has fallen in love with Donny. The two want to be together, but are hunted by the government.
Actors and actresses
Prof. Harry Beckmeyer
Thylo
Jerboa
Donny Martin
Olga Gorki
Prof. Sharp
Jack Citron
President
General Forster
Academy Award Presenter
Reviews & comments
Richard_Voorhees
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- 2311 messages
- 2135 votes
The beginning is certainly not bad. A number of bad characters with one nice one-liner after another follow each other. Unfortunately, the film deteriorates considerably after that. The effects are terrible and despite the fact that an entertaining character appears here and there, such as the crazy shaman Kendi, it is all quite sad.
The 'acting' is painfully bad and it looks like they had a very small budget for the effects.
Where Howling II managed to be quite entertaining in its wrong way, Howling III is a complete failure. A waste of time.
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Chainsaw
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- 8845 messages
- 3690 votes
Compact Disc!
Sometimes you see a movie that makes you think every five minutes; 'what the hell am I looking at?'. The Howling III is such an experience. Even if you do your best to follow everything, in a few minutes the film constantly and completely randomly jumps back and forth from location to location and from main character to main character. The film literally uses a 'and then, and then' narrative. The story boils down to how, after a visit to the President of America in Australia, a scientist goes looking for half-human/half-marsupial wolves and comes into contact with a Russian ballet dancer and a girl who is suddenly cast in a B-movie. of a kind of Alfred Hitchschlock, while she is chased by three nuns. Sounds logical.
It should come as no surprise that Howling III is a ton of trash, but fortunately for those viewers who dare to put it on themselves, it's very entertaining trash. The film is hilariously bad at many points. This is how people manage to catch such a human/wolf/marsupial again and again, but they are still always tied to a chair with one very thin strap. The transformations are hilarious and the dialogue is often so ridiculous that it becomes fun. And the acting is of such a level that I doubt whether it is terrible or genius. Just think of that priest on the bus. It's also bizarre how the story ends after 80 minutes, but they continue to show scenes for another fifteen minutes and the story just keeps stretching and stretching. Feels a bit like a joke that goes on way too long, at a certain point it really isn't funny anymore and therefore still becomes funny for a while.
Under the motto; I'd rather watch horrible crap that really entertains me than really boring decent films, this was all in all great entertainment for just a Thursday evening in January.
2 stars.
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Shadowed
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- 11558 messages
- 6803 votes
Director Philippe Mora signed on again to tackle the third part and moves the story from Europe to Australia. Just like the previous part, this film has a camp atmosphere and that works quite contagiously during the first half. The difference is that this production was clearly more self-conscious and relies less on atmosphere or tension, but nevertheless ultimately succumbs to the meaningless story. After a while it becomes impossible to make sense of it and the drama increasingly dominates, making the second half particularly difficult to watch. Some clumsy moments in between (a lot of laughter at the bazooka in the tent) liven things up a bit, but in terms of content it is a real mess and the effects are not particularly high-quality. As icing on the cake, an arsenal of pitifully acting characters is once again removed, causing the general level of the series to sink a little deeper.
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