The Howling IV: The Original Nightmare

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Director:John Hough
Release Date:2004-06-15
Label:Platinum Disc
UPC:096009180492
Binding:DVD
Published By:Platinum Disc
ASIN:B00023BM4S
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ZZZ! ZZZ! I'm sorry is this movie still not over yet! - Reviewed on 2008-10-07
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There not much one can say about Howling IV: the Original Nightmare except "What a piece of trash! To say nothing of it being the biggest embarrassment to the franchise next to part 7! I mean this movie did everything wrong and absolutly NOTHING RIGHT!! First of all this movie is sooo boring as you may have picked up from my heading. It's slow and excruciatingly plodding. Second not only are all of the characters flat and boring but I really didn't give a sh** about any of them. Third the acting wasn't horrible enough but to make matters worse they relied on seriously cheesey lip-synching/dubbed speech(and what they were on when they thought that even passed for anything outside of one of the dumbest f***ing ideads possible I don't know!!! Not to mention really annoying!!!) To boot they also used voices that were not only corny and stereotypical but that didn't fit actors at all. Another problem with this reprehensible pile of dung is that it's full of cliches for example that over-used suspense music when the main character Marie is trying to drive away from the werewolves to say nothing of the fact that the scene in general looked like a similar scene used in Night of the Living Dead among others! In earnest I had one really difficult time even staying awake while watching this so-called Howling sequel! Other than that there just wasn't one character that I could even remotely relate to either! and worst of all this chapter did a really half-a**ed job at trying to be similar to part 1(which is so laughable!) In closing if you loved parts 1,2 and 3 as well as parts 5&6 then avoid this contemptable crock of sh** like the plague!
Total Junk! - Reviewed on 2008-09-12
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2 customers found this review helpful, 1 did not.

Fourth movie in the boxset. This movie sucks...A LOT. This movie ranks #2 on my worst movies list (The first one of course, being Hard Rock Zombies). I'm not the biggest fan of the Howling Series, but, just because this movie was horrible doesn't mean I'm not gonna try to finish the series. I liked 1, 3, and 6 and I have yet to see 2, 5 and 7 (I hear 7 is much worse than this)

The movie is about an author named Marie (Played by Romy Windsor) who after a nervous breakdown, is sent to the town of Drago, along with her husband Richard. What they don't know is that Drago is haunted...By werewolves, which we don't see on-screen until somewhere towards the end. How droll.

I feel that summarzing this movie is just as tough as watching it, again. I would rather eat my own feces and snot and down it with milk mixed with Kraft EZ Cheeze (I'm lactose intolerant btw) and Clorox and Drano than have to watch this stupid crap again. The song "Something Evil, Something Dangerous" performed by Justin Hayward from The Moody Blues can't even save this. Even worse, the song sounds so damn familiar to the Deadtime Stories theme by Taj (Deadtime Stories is really good 80s cheeze btw) After getting this out of the DVD player, I just smashed the disc into tiny little pieces, which is what this sewage leak of a movie deserves. Hard to believe that John Hough, the man who directed Disney Favorites like Witch Mountain and Watcher in the Woods. This "movie" could also be seen as a very boring 2-hour infomercial for Coca-Cola, as there's a good amount of product placement in there for Coke. Avoid at all costs. I wish I could give this a zero, but I'll just have to settle with a one.
The 2ND best in the series - Reviewed on 2007-07-24
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I love horror movies point blank!..It's just my thing
one of the things i love doing the most is following up on squeals
I must say The Howling IV is the best in the series after the first one
none of the other parts have that creepy ,grim feeling that the first Howling
gave us Part 2 is just garbage Part 3 i own it but have not took the time to
see it Part V is the only one that's good enough to stand by part 4
Howling VI:The Freaks sucks the big one & new moon rising i can't find anywhere.

The Howling 4 sets out to capture the first film , a writer who as a nervous
break down heads out to the country with her husband to relax and enjoy
some days off but it quickly turns into a nightmare when see starts to hear howling outside her window and gets involve in solving a local mystery
when all is said and done this movie is worth a watch and worth the buy
Howwll! - Reviewed on 2007-04-03
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1 customer found this review not to be helpful.
I loved this movie so much! Sure it's similar to the first but the special effects makes it a howl of a great time!
Beyond bad - Reviewed on 2006-01-29
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4 customers found this review helpful, 9 did not.

The fourth entry into the Howling series finds that after three films the series had already outstayed it's welcome. The story is similar to that of the original film, involving a colony of werewolves that has one thing on their mind. Howling IV: Original Nightmare, isn't original in the least, and despite some solid makeup effects, nothing can save the film from the atrocious acting (from Romy Windsor and Pretender's Michael T. Weiss) lackluster directing, and predictable story. It's a terrible film, but believe it or not, there would be more Howling films on the way after this, which would get even worse! Do yourself a favor, skip every Howling sequel and stick with Joe Dante's original tongue-in-cheek classic, because no Howling film after that is even worth seeing.
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