Howling: New Moon Rising

Howling: New Moon Rising
Directed by Clive Turner
Produced by Harvey Goldsmith,
Edward Simons,
Clive Turner
Written by Gary Brandner (novels),
Clive Turner
Starring John Ramsden,
Jack Huff,
Ernest Kester,
Clive Turner,
Elizabeth Shé,
Romy Windsor
Music by Guy Moon
Cinematography Andreas Kossak
Edited by Clive Turner
Production
company
Allied Entertainment
Distributed by New Line Home Video
Release dates
  • 1995
Running time
 90 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $250,000

Howling: New Moon Rising (also known as Howling VII and Howling VII: Mystery Woman) is a 1995 direct-to-video horror sequel to The Howling and the seventh film in Howling film series, directly succeeding Howling VI: The Freaks.[1] The movie was written and directed by Clive Turner. Turner also starred in the film as Ted Smith, a man that has arrived in a small western town with his own personal agenda.

New Moon Rising utilizes footage from the previous three sequels in the Howling series, Howling IV: The Original Nightmare, Howling V: The Rebirth, and Howling VI: The Freaks, and features characters from each movie.

Synopsis

An Australian man named Ted, intricately connected to the previous three Howling films, arrives in a small western town where he begins to mingle with the local townsfolk, secretly recording his own enigmatic agendas into a tape recorder in his hotel room. At the same time a number of mysterious slayings appearing to be the work of a large animal begin to occur in the area. A detective investigates the case, helped by a priest who is certain the killings are the work of a werewolf, leading the two of them to uncover several clues that connect events from the majority of the latter part of the series.

Cast

Reception

Critical reception for New Moon Rising has been predominantly negative and TV Guide remarked that the movie was "a new low for the franchise."[2][3] Cinema Crazed and Dread Central both heavily panned the film, and Cinema Crazed commented that "Asking anyone to watch “The Howling: New Moon Rising” should be punishable by jail time and some kind of psychological examination."[4][5] Bloody Disgusting also gave a negative review, stating that the movie "ranks right up there with Troll 2 as the most hilarious bad movie ever made" and that they believed that the movie kept the names of the actors and the town to "cut down on the people forgetting each others names because they had a hard enough time remembering their lines".[6]

References

  1. ↑ Billington, Alex. "Unexpected 'Howling Reborn' Project Comes Out of Nowhere". First Showing. Retrieved 24 April 2014.
  2. ↑ "The Howling: New Moon Rising (review)". TV Guide. Retrieved 24 April 2014.
  3. ↑ "The Series Project: The Howling". Crave Online. Retrieved 24 April 2014.
  4. ↑ "The Howling VII: New Moon Rising (review)". Cinema Crazed. Retrieved 24 April 2014.
  5. ↑ Serafini, Matt. "Saturday Nightmares: The Howling: New Moon Rising". Dread Central. Retrieved 24 April 2014.
  6. ↑ "Howling: New Moon Rising (review)". Bloody DIsgusting. Retrieved 24 April 2014.

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