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The novels were authored by American horror writer Gary Phil Brandner (1930–2013). The first book in the series was loosely adapted as a motion picture in 1981. Brandner's second and third Howling novels, published in 1979 and 1985, respectively, have no connection to the film series, though he was involved in writing the screenplay for the second Howling film, Howling II: Your Sister Is a ...
The Howling is a 1981 American horror film directed and edited by Joe Dante. Written by John Sayles and Terence H. Winkless , based on the novel of the same name by Gary Brandner , the film follows a news anchor who, following a traumatic encounter with a serial killer, visits a resort secretly inhabited by werewolves.
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Neither sequel was used as the basis for any of the subsequent Howling films. However, minor elements from The Howling III: Echoes novel appear in the film Howling VI: The Freaks. The fourth film of the series, Howling IV: The Original Nightmare (1988), is the closest adaptation of Brandner's original 1977 novel, though even it differs in parts.
Clive Turner had worked on the "Howling" franchise since The Marsupials in 1987, where he was an uncredited location manager. He went on to write The Original Nightmare and The Rebirth. Turner was determined to make a seventh film that connected all of the unrelated Howling films together into one timeline.
Films in the American werewolf-themed horror media franchise The Howling. Pages in category "The Howling films" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.
Howling IV: The Original Nightmare is a 1988 British [1] direct-to-video horror film directed by John Hough from a screenplay by Freddie Rowe and Clive Turner. [2] Starring Romy Windsor, Michael T. Weiss, Antony Hamilton, Susanne Severeid and Lamya Derval, The Original Nightmare is the fourth entry in the series of seven standalone films with loose continuity and is not so much a sequel but ...
Howling V: The Rebirth is a 1989 direct-to-video horror film directed by Neal Sundstrom from the screenplay by Freddie Rowe and Clive Turner, and filmed in Budapest, Hungary. Starring Philip Davis , Victoria Catlin , Elizabeth She, Ben Cole, and William Shockley , The Rebirth is the fifth entry in the series of eight stand-alone films with ...