So here come to the end of another series. I’m a little sad!
Apparently taking more from the original novel than the second book this claims to be based on, Howling Reborn has possible sorta hybrid teenager Will confronting werewolves in his urban city. It’s a high school setting and there’s a degree of bullshit relationship and typical bully stuff in here as filler.
Dumb music and a made for tv look aside, this thing doesn’t…like…hurt, it’s just very much a product of it’s time at a time when low budget direct to DVD horror was truly awful and horror in general was in a bad state.
That made me curious. I’m googling “2011 horror movies”. Paranormal Activity 3, Scream 4, Red State, Hostel 2, Final Destination 5… need I say more? That’s digging too, most of these I don’t even remember and look incredibly stupid. Okay, Kill List and Cabin in the Woods. There’s two good ones. What the hell happened to Ben Wheatley anyways?
This movie has a very simple setup with one of those overdone beginnings of: "Hey guys I am a werewolf and let me tell you my story." In fact, the main character and his bad voice over narration is all entirely bad. But that beginning ruins perhaps the only thing this could have had going for it, which is the mystery of what is going on with our main character. Instead, the first hour or so is just getting to the point where he knows. Since we already do, it's all just tedium and boredom.
This plays like your of-the-times C grade werewolf movie clearly trying to jump in on the Twilight thing, which means now it plays even worse. Its very much lifeless and scareless, I want to give it a 1 but I think its probably like a 2ish star range. I'll split the dif.
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