Howling II: Your Sister Is a Werewolf (Bitch!) (1985)

"Twice the terror! Twice the torment!"
Just shortly after leaving the tragic funeral of the late Karen White, her remaining brother Ben White (Reb Brown) and his journalist girlfriend, Jenny Templeton (Annie McEnroe) suddenly find themselves being approached by a rather mysterious man, by the name of Stefan Crosscoe (Christopher Lee).
And things sure got even more strange as he abruptly tells them the shocking news that Ben's sister, was in fact a werewolf, and if he wants to save her from even more suffering, they must all come along with him to the dark lands of Transylvania. There they have to go face to face with the mother of all werewolfs, Stirba (Sybil Danning), Stefan's own sister.

Gotta love that tagline, "Twice the Terror, Twice the Torment!". Yeah, well I guess by now we all know it's certainly no Howling 1 that's for sure, and those that saw the original only a couple of years before at the cinemas, and then went in to watch this by "accident", must have said to themselves very loud afterwards or during: "WHAT THE FUCK?"

I guess some big moneymen in Hollywood thought it would be a brilliant idea to make another Howling title, you know, cash in on other werewolf titles released that same year, such as Teen Wolf and Silver Bullet.
So they hired the once promising young director Phillipe Mora who had already by then proven himself with the solid and rather chilling monster flick, The Beast Within (1982), and to top it off they were able to bring along, one of the finest actors of all time, the legendary Christopher Lee.

But from then on, something must have gone badly wrong as the film went from being a "serious" horror movie, into becoming almost a parody of filmmaking, as 
there were big troubles with shooting the film and then later on, several times the script/scenes were changed dramatically or just removed, and in the end, we ended up with what many considers to be one of the "worst" movies of all time.
Later on when Christopher Lee worked with Joe Dante (the director of the first Howling film) on Gremlins II: The New Batch (1990) , it were rumored that Lee apologized for having been involved with Howling II.

Howling II once shared the "respectable" spot at IMDb's famous 100 bottom list, along with several other of it's "sequels", but over the years it has dropped out and started rising onwards from below 1,9 and as of now sits at the "impressive" 3,4 which I guess shows that people actually have found out it ain't that bad of a picture.
It's not even close to being the "worst" Howling title made. You know there were made like 6 or 7 other films, and believe me, from 5 or 6 and onwards it is just pure torture, were one of the "sequels" are so bad it's unwatchable.
Which make me think that those that so easily labels Howling II as the worst movie of all time, probably stopped watching after the second one.
Still part 3 and 4 is actually not that bad.

Part 3, The Marsupials (1987) also made by Philippe Mora, is actually a very funny and well made b-movie, that makes fun of horror movies and probably Howling II also, then you have Australian wannabe Alfred Hitchcock put in there aswell, and provides lots of great laughs along the way, and if I am remembering correctly, the fourth one, did try to re-capture the tone of the original Howling movie, maybe even being a bit of a low-budget "remake". 
Love the little in-joke movie clip called It came from Uranus.

Anyway, you have b-movie action star Reb Brown doing his usual "acting" while everytime he fires a gun, he makes these hysterical screams and faces.
And then you have b-movie godess, Sybil Danning as Stirba (the werewolf bitch!), and if you decides to give up, please jump forwards to the ending credits, it's all worth it.
Probably some of the funniest credits ever put together. Like whoever made it, just went total berserk in the editing room, by adding what must have been 15-20 or more shots of Danning's magnificent breasts falling out of her dress.
The only one that seem to take their job "serious" are Christopher Lee, who has this deadly serious look even with some of the silliest looking shades/glases on him, as he tries to blend in with the punks/new wave crowd at a nightclub, where the godawful band Babel is doing their stuff, playing the same main theme song over and over again throughout the film, but hey, it is quite catchy, in a so-bad-its-hilarious way.

I really do love this film, and probably not that hard to understand by my username/avatar, and when I first saw it, I knew that I was about to see something special from the very beginning, with that laughable intro with Christopher Lee being all serious, reading loudly from a book, with what looked like a plastic skeleton standing behind him.
Howling II probably belongs more in the so-bad-its-good or hilarious section, but it does come with some gory scenes and even a real scary one, a very hairy, werewolf orgy. 
All in all, for me, this is one of those great movie accidents, were everything wrong, ended up being a fantastic and highly entertaining joke of a movie, that I can watch over and over again, and never go tired of.