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If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.

This is an astonishing documentary that will wring your heart while it bends your mind

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

This is a terrific production. Constantly under-valued Joe is given guard duties on a train. Despite being told he gets on well with passengers, when he checks the tickets, he is met by the kind of casual ignorance and rudeness you would expect from the complaining, self-obsessed, terminally dissatisfied general public. The train driver is played by Sean Pertwee in little more than a cameo, and he is the first victim of the howling horrors 'out there' in the night that seemingly cause the train to halt in the middle of nowhere. That the miscreants appear to be werewolves is bad news for Pertwee, who has previous form with lycanthropes (1994's 'Dog Soldiers').Ed Speleers is excellent as Joe, whose wearisome tolerance of his increasingly dire situation is written in the wrinkles on his forehead. He clearly wants to be somewhere – anywhere – else, from the get-go, and our sympathies are with him. This is particularly apparent in his relationship with tea-trolley girl Ellen (Holly Weston), who – alongside the rest of the passengers – is constantly being charmed by the authoritative clever-clogs Adrian (Elliot Cowan), who always seems to do and say the right thing. For a while at least.Other passengers include a teen girl who uses accusations of sexual impropriety to get her own way, Duncan Preston as the elderly Ged whose patience is constantly wearing thing and an overweight man who is never quite aware of what is happening around him. These characters are believable and very well played. And they all have no truck with poor Joe. The courteous and polite Matthew is the exception, and Amit Shah's playing of him losing his composure and killing the first of the creatures we see is very powerful. Jenny, Ged's wife, is also very well played by Ania Marson.Visually, the were-beasts are sometimes very impressive and sometimes not so much. However, they thoroughly convince as virtually unstoppable, rampaging killers. In the darkness of the wilderness surrounding the stranded train, they are exceptional with glowing eyes and shaggy manes.As a whole, I had a great time watching this. It is a good, solidly made traditional werewolf/horror picture, beautifully directed by Paul Hyett. Some people may be irked that more wasn't revealed about why and how the pack exist undetected in the English countryside, but the lack of explanation doesn't bother me at all, especially when the results are this good.

"Howl" is a glorious return to the old school type of werewolf movie, and it was definitely a return to the ways when werewolf movies were made efficiently and interestingly.Now, while starts out fairly slow, don't give up on the movie easily, because it takes a little while for it to get up into gear. But once it has gotten in gear, it sky rockets off for a thrill ride of great speed and with lots of thrills and excitement.The atmosphere that director Paul Hyett managed to establish in "Howl" was just phenomenal. There is a real sense of dread and fear permeating the movie, especially as the werewolves close in on the individuals trapped in the train. And the fact that most of the movie takes place in the small confined space of a train just adds to the atmosphere and to the sense of claustrophobia and despair.As for the story in "Howl", well it was quite straight forward. It seemed like it was an homage to the classic werewolf movies; the movies that I grew up with and loved. So it was particularly great to watch "Howl".The effects in the movie were quite good, and again really captured the essence of the way Hollywood used to make werewolf movies. So it was indeed a treat to behold on the screen. And the werewolves actually had quite an interesting conceptual design, and the special effects team managed to create something really great.They also had a pretty good ensemble of cast to portray the various characters and roles in the movie. I enjoyed watching Sean Pertwee in yet another werewolf movie, although it was a shame that he was not one of the main cast and only had a smaller role in the movie."Howl" turned out to be quite a nice surprise of a movie, and it is definitely a worthy addition to the werewolf genre. If you haven't seen "Howl" already and if you enjoy the werewolf movies from the 1980s and 1990s, then "Howl" will definitely appeal to you.

It was quite good until we could perfectly see the "werewolf". I'm sorry, but it was one of the worst werewolves I've ever seen. The acting was really poor sometimes, although the story was pretty original. One positive thing also was the constant suspense and it was bloody but not too much, so that's really good. Special effects are nice, excepting to the werewolves. Something that I don't understand is the final scene, when the sun has raised but the werewolves are still transformed...that makes no sense. It is OK to watch at home when you are bored, but I wouldn't pay for watching it. Also I have to say that I've seen worse films of this type, but it could have been better.

A bunch of people are stuck in a train when it breaks down out somewhere in the country, at night of course. We meet the controller who didn't get a promotion, instead a jerk of a colleague did. He's also interested in a girl who works with him. There's an elderly couple, some annoying girl, some take-charge business guy and other, even lesser characters.The conductor goes outside to check the problem--some type of fluid leak. He doesn't fare well. About 55 minutes into the movie, the action starts.One woman is bitten in the leg another is dragged out of a window. The elderly woman is bitten and then begins transforming, eventually. A werewolf makes it inside the train and is killed. At some point some of the characters decide to walk to the station. Then more werewolves appear and things get more violent. We have to deal with the usual drama among some of the characters--some won't act, others look out only for their own skin, and others do care for everyone's safety.There's a bit of a surprise about who will survive in the end. But there's really not much going on here. For a whole train we only meet a few undeveloped characters. Things improve once the horror starts, not that things get particularly scary, but we're talking nearly one hour into the movie. The creatures though look very cool, cooler in the distance than up close but otherwise Howl doesn't have a whole lot to offer.