The Marsupials' Moonlit Masquerade


To this end, the film's tacky special effects, its damning condemnation of American cinema's tendency for climactic "overkill," Donny's (Leigh Biolos) reaction to seeing a Lyncanthropic baby ugly enough to rival those of The Fly 2 (1989) and Eraserhead (1977) as "It's really great. Is it a boy or is it a girl?", and the presence of only one truly intense scene (the torturous strobing experiment in hospital) only lends strength to the film. While Mora's second entry into the Howling series may not possess the sharp, though subtle, wit of Joe Dante's original, its freshness and pastiche-parody makes this film a truly enjoyable film to watch, and one gratefully designated to the "$1-a-week" video bin where it resides slyly amidst the films that it so cleverly sends up.
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