A strange race of human-like marsupials appear suddenly in Australia, and a sociologist who studies these creatures falls in love with a female one. Is this a dangerous combination?
“Howling II: Your Sister Is A Werewolf” was a sequel so bad that I’m surprised the franchise didn’t stop there, instead it carried on.
I have to admit I had serious doubts going into this film, but can you really blame me? “Howling II: Your Sister Is A Werewolf” left a seriously bad taste in my mouth, when I read the films synopsis it didn’t give me much confidence either. Can you really blame me though? And when it started I feared I was right.
So, after 95 minutes I sat there and wondered “what the hell?!”, my mind couldn’t make itself up, had I enjoyed it or not? Was this a great film or one of the worst things ever? I was seriously confused because although I was entertained by the film, the film itself was, well it was one of the weirdest things I’ve seen.
It features one of the strangest scenes I’ve seen in which we witness a werewolf giving birth and then see a tiny animal crawl from her, um, ahem, lady bits and eventually end up in a pouch slit on her stomach. It was so bizarre, which sums up this film really, it’s so bizarre yet it’s oddly charming in its own way that you can’t help but smile.
You can see where they tried to go with this film, they tried to do something a little different, take the story and give you a different perspective. In some ways it worked and in some ways it really didn’t but you can’t not like it, even with all its flaws, though the ending is so drawn out that you can find yourself wondering when and how it’s going to end.
“The Howling III – The Marsupials” is a bizarre film, yet charismatic, if you love low budget campy Horror then you’re in for a treat.
Miscellaneous facts about the film:
Nicole Kidman was considered for the part of Jeroba.
Despite the title and the fact that it claims to be “based on the books The Howling I, II, and III by Gary Brandner”, the film is actually unrelated to any of Brandner’s novels other than being a story about werewolves.
The only Howling sequel with no character seen in any other Howling entry. An oblique reference to the previous two entries occurs when Barry Otto’s character asks the Russian woman if other groups of werewolves live elsewhere; she says “Africa….China….maybe California”. This may reference the varied groups of werewolves who attended to Stirba in Howling II, and Howling I and II took place in California.
Did not receive a theatrical release in its native Australia.
The picture was released during an early-mid 1980s cycle of werewolf movies. These included Wolfen (1981), The Howling (1981), Teen Wolf (1985), Howling II: … Your Sister Is a Werewolf (1985), Full Moon High (1981), Teen Wolf Too (1987), The Company of Wolves (1984), The Marsupials: The Howling III (1987), and An American Werewolf in London (1981).
This film is considered an “Ozploitation” (Australian exploitation) picture.
The Marsupials: The Howling III (1987) uses only two elements from the novel “The Howling III” by Gary Brandner, those are: the werewolves being portrayed in a more sympathetic light and humans as a danger to their existence, and the experiments being performed on the werewolves such as hypnosis and forcing a transformation against their will.
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