GamerTab That was an excellent one.

Phonearl Good start, but then it gets ruined

Ortiz Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

Cody One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

spencergrande6 Finally someone has the cajones to put werewolves in a castle and initiate murder mystery slasher mode. My god, how did it take till 1989 to kick this into gear? And what fun we have here!At least in terms of a C-movie eclectic character cast and some cool castle cinematography. This is a murder mystery where you don't really care about the reveal, and you know it's a werewolf anyway so the why isn't important. It's also a slasher where there's not much bloodletting or fun. It lies somewhere flatly in-between these two genres that share so much in common and yet can't meet a happy middle ground.

trashgang Just listen to the sound used for the score, soooooo eighties, I'm sure they used the Korg M-1 for that. But on to the movie itself. Almost afraid to watch it and not for the reason that it is a horror but for the fact that it enters into the ridiculous Howling franchise. Opening it does with the fact that a castle had to be closed in the 15th century due some weird circumstances. A werewolf. Move further 500 years were a bunch of people do enter the castle. One by one they disappear. Who is the killer? Is it the butler. Yeah right, seen that story a few times before isn't it Agatha Christie? You have to wait until the final of this flick who is the werewolf. Nothing to do with the other stories this flick doesn't offer any gore or red stuff. It's a pure whodunit slasher flick with the killer being a werewolf. But one that doesn't offer anything for the horror geeks. You almost never see the werewolf. And the attacks are done off-screen.A bit of red stuff here and there but not mentionable, only one decapitation but cheesy. What's funny is the fact that Elisabeth Shé (here as Marylou) appears in this entry but also in the next one, Howling VI and Howling:New Moon Rising as Marylou and Mary Lou. She's also goes naked in Howling V. A perfect example why horror was death back then around that era. Gore 0,5/5 Nudity 1/5 Effects 0/5 Story 3/5 Comedy 0/5

Wuchak HOWLING V: THE REBIRTH (1989, 96 minutes) Shot in an actual Hungarian castle, the plot is borrowed from "The Beast Must Die" (1974) wherein a group of people spend the night in a huge European estate while one of the party, a werewolf, systematically butchers the guests. It's basically a whodunit a la Agatha Christie's "And Then There Were None." It's also reminiscent of the underrated "Devil's Nightmare" aka "The Devil Walks at Midnight" (1971), albeit not as good.Still, it comes close, and although the werewolf is barely seen I found this a solid low-budget mystery flick with a werewolf. Besides, Elizabeth Shé (Marylou) has an exceptional scene and there's a superb Gothic score. But gorehounds who want to see loads of bloody werewolf action should pass (there's a little, but not enough to appease modern gorehounds).GRADE: B-

Vornoff-3 This is one of the better horror movies shot in the period right after the fall of the Iron Curtain in Eastern Europe. It's not a great by any means - in fact it borrows heavily from the 1970s film "The Beast Must Die" (itself a riff on the "Ten Little Indians" theme), but it is kind of fun in its way. It has nothing whatever to do with the previous "Howling films, which at least means you can see it without sitting through four previous movies for it to make sense. Basically, it's a slasher film in which a collection of fairly ill-defined characters are isolated in a lonely Hungarian castle and eliminated one by one by something that may or may not be a werewolf, and which is surely one of them (but which one?). My favorite Howling Movie is still #7, "New Moon Rising," but this is a respectable entry in the series.