Howling: New Moon Rising


Howling: New Moon Rising is a 1995 direct-to-video horror film directed, produced, and written by Clive Turner, the seventh film in The Howling film series. The film reuses footage from the previous three sequels in the Howling series and features characters from each film. The plot has a detective in the film uncover several clues that connect events of the latter part of the series. It was followed by in 2011.

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 previous three films in the series.

Cast

TV Guide remarked that the film was "a new low for the franchise." Dread Central gave the film a negative review, likening it to Mystery Science Theater 3000 fare. Bloody Disgusting also gave a negative review, stating that the film "ranks right up there with Troll 2 as the most hilarious bad movie ever made" and that they believed that the film kept the names of the actors and the town to "cut down on the people forgetting each other’s names because they had a hard enough time remembering their lines".