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Good , But It Is Overrated By Some

There are better movies of two hours length. I loved the actress'performance.

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

This is supposed to be part of the "Howling" franchise of films. How did it get to this stage? "The Howling: Reborn" was just grim with dull colours and bleak scripts. A teenage schoolboy who looks like a young man from "Twilight" and probably isn't discovers he's a werewolf. He relies on his nerdy friend to give him info. He lives with his widowed dad because his mother died while she was pregnant. Then we all find out that she's alive and really a werewolf who's been watching him growing up. His crush is a very grown up girl who likes parties but her personality flip flops. Sometimes she's tough and other times she's a damsel in distress. No one ever asked about the dead school bully. Finding all of the people kept in a slimey tunnel was familiar. The werewolves in this film look like big bogeys. I just found it so bland and really struggled to keep watching anymore.

Instead, we have the new spectacular reboot of The Howling. It's a Twilight ripoff, with like an homage to The Lost Boys maybe. But oh so much worse. This is what bad directing, writing and acting look like in conjunction. Not one can support the other, do any heavy lifting, and there is no saving grace. This is a blue and grey tinged, choppily edited soulless dreck.But hey, at least the werewolves aren't always CGI. Seriously, this is redeeming, but the movie seems almost ashamed of it for some reason and edits them out of coherence.

Now, there were a lot of sequels to the The Howling after it came out back in the 1980's, most of which were forgettable.This one is actually made with a lot of solid special effects, and some okay writing. It's really kind of slow in the first half hour with some tiresome teenage angst. the movie kind of gets going later, but not really that much.They use the same kinds of special effects they used in the 1981 film, but they look tired and dated here. There are a few clever lines such as "The Evolution will not be Televised", and when a silver trophy is used to kill a werewolf "Aren't you glad you didn't win the gold.Not a bad film, but not great. Worth a Weekend rental.

OK. Since I'm a big horror/cult-fan I can sincerely tell u that this was YET ANOTHER BULLSHIT sequel/remake of a great '80's movie. For God's sake, there was no thrill to it, no true gore whatsoever and the only thing that really grabbed my attention was the immense beauty of the villain played by Ivana Milicevic. Truly, Hollywood, you can't be serious by thinking a movie will turn out to be a hit just by copying the title of a great '80's movie, somewhat trying to adapt to the original story and hiring a handful of beautiful people to be the cast. Really, to conclude: An unnecessary sequel/remake of something that used to be a great movie, and if you are new to this shyte I recommend you watch Howling [1981] and The Howling 2 [1985] first and then see for yourself what a bullshit time of copycats we are living in at the moment.Greetz from The Netherlands.