Watched this at around 0300 last night, because my daughter was very much awake and upset and Katie wanted to sleep.
Ugh.
The idea of marsupial werewolves is fine (though it spoils the whole problem with werewolves in human form: not knowing who is a werewolf). Half of the problem was the awful lines that people had to deliver. The "big shot director" was one that annoyed me right off. Heck, we can blame the director too. The film was downright corny and poorly shot throughout. The awards show at the end stands out as a really good example of the bad work.
The plot deals with a family of werewolves living in the outback. One of them is named Thylo and he is a bloody big bald bastard. His stepdaughter, Jerboa Jerboa, runs away to Sydney to escape the clan. There she meets a fine young lad and they fall in love. She gets pregnant and eventually gives birth to what appears to be a tiny mole. It happily crawls into her pouch (the whole birth to pouch entering scene is plain wrong).
Another part of the plot is that the US and British governments know about the werewolves (the Vatican too) and tried to hunt them to extinction. One Professor Beckmeyer wants to find the last surviving werewolves and help them work for equal rights. The werewolf rights movement idiocy also drove me nuts. Oh, and the professor falls in love with a beautiful werewolf ballerina from Russia.
Lessons Learned:
People with no talent should not try to copy Rick Baker's effects work.
The Brits imported more than just rabbits and rats to Australia.
Werewolves release a massive EMP burst when changing.
Not being worried about a gang rape scene in the script (when you, the woman, are the "object of so much attention") is "vivacious."
Stuff to watch for:
Jerboa and her beau in bed. He really needs to turn the A/C on.
The ballerina turning into a werewolf on stage.
Why did she run through the arcade?
Hey, it is the guy who drank dishwashing liquid in "Body Melt!"
As a fellow Howling III survivor, let me just say that you've proven yourself to be a person with tremendous willpower. Sitting through this entire stinker of a movie is no small feat.
I must got tremendous willpower also to watched all of The Howling movies back to back a long time ago on HBO the first Howling I loved but the others was really really bad but one good thing about them is beautiful women get naked that's all.
One question - how does Howling III compare to Howling II ? Just wanting to know how much pain I'm in for when I finally get around to watching it.
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i have seen this movie and for days afterward, i was tormented by thoughts of insanity.
what a terrible travesty of cinema. honestly, for dreck like this to follow a cool flick like The Howling is a sad, sad thing. i didn't like #2 either.
and just WHAT kind of name is Jerboa? especially for a girl? and what kind of normal boy would hang around a woman that had a POUCH?!
I don't think my experince of "Howling III" was as bad as the other people on this topic (NYAH NYAH!) I mean I saw what I call the "good part" on TBS when I was 12. The parts I saw were....1)some old man dying and getting his body put into a big fire. then later two soliders show up and look at the skeloton of the man, only now it looks like a werewolf, the werewolf skelton wakes up and bites one solider but he pulls it off and they machine gun it to pieces. 2) the group running away has one guy stay back and he's talking about turning into the "big one" or something crazy. At night we see the two soliders, one standing guard the other in the tent, the solider in the tent thinks something's a miss so he pulls up his rocket launcher, and then this big werewolf head comes in and the guy blows it to smitherens (I was shakin in fright at all this) after that boring stuff happens and the movie ends strangly. I probaly didn't have a bad time because: I didn't not see the whole film and I liked the giant werewolf head, but if I went back and watched the whole movie I'm sure i'd have a bad time, some lets end at that.
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