The Howling II is a 1979 horror novel by Gary Brandner. It is the first of two sequels to his 1977 werewolf novel, The Howling. The novel was later republished under the alternative titles The Howling II: The Return and Return of the Howling. Despite the ongoing film series that began in the 1980s, The Howling II was not adapted as a film and bears no similarities to the sequel Howling II: Your Sister Is a Werewolf (1985) or any of the other Howling films. The eighth film The Howling: Reborn (2011) credits the book as the source of its story, but bears no resemblance to it other than being a story about werewolves.
Adaptations (6)
The Howling II has been adapted into 6 films, from 1986 to 2011. The most recent is The Howling: Reborn (2011).
Howling IV: The Original Nightmare1988 · film · 94 min · dir. John Hough, Clive Turner · IMDb ↗IMDb3.5An author who was sent to the town Drakho, because of a nervous breakdown, gets wound up in a mystery revolving around demons and werewolves. She starts seeing ghosts and dismisses them as her own imagination, but when they turn out to be real she becomes suspicious of the odd town and of its past.
Howling V: The Rebirth1989 · film · 96 min · dir. Neal Sundstrom · IMDb ↗IMDb4.4When a group of people from different walks of life converge in a Hungarian castle situated in Budapest which has been sealed for 500 years, they bring with them a werewolf which slowly begins to cut their numbers down.
Howling: New Moon Rising1995 · film · 90 min · dir. Clive Turner, Roger Nall · IMDb ↗IMDb1.8A number of vicious murders occur in a small California town after a motorcycle-riding stranger arrives. The gruesome slayings look disturbingly like the work of a werewolf. Meanwhile, in another nearby town, police are hot on the trail of a killer they believe is a werewolf.
The Howling: Reborn2011 · film · 88 min · dir. Joe Nimziki · IMDb ↗IMDb4.117%On the eve of his high school graduation, unremarkable Will Kidman finally bonds with the girl he has long yearned for, reclusive Eliana Wynter. But he also discovers a dark secret from his past... that he is about to become a werewolf. Now, in an effort to fight destiny and save their love as well as their lives, they must battle not only Will's growing blood lust but an army of fearsome beasts bent on killing them... and then, us all.
