The Howling: Reborn
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The Howling: Reborn is a 2011 werewolf
-themed horror film
written by Joe Nimziki and released direct to video on 18 October 2011.
Will remembers Sachin's advice that werewolves can only be killed by silver bullets or fire and both of them equip themselves with handmade flame throwers. In the security room they find Sachin is being killed by one of the werewolves, so they go in the basement, only to find that Catherine is raising an army of werewolves.
They escape. In the process Will kills a werewolf by stabbing it with a silver trophy. Afterwards Eliana forces Will to turn her into a werewolf about which he is reluctant. He somehow manages to stop himself from doing so when he accidentally scratches her back with his claws.
When making an escape Eliana is taken by Catherine to force Will to become a werewolf. They both battle each other, but Catherine is too powerful to be killed by silver bullets. It's then he realizes that she is the alpha female. Just when she is about to kill him another werewolf attacks her by ripping her heart out. Will realizes that the werewolf is none other than Eliana, who is transformed because of her wounds. They burn the school down so that the other newborn werewolves can't escape.
In the post credit scenes it's shown that the video created by Will showing his transformation and warning the world about werewolves existence is circulated all over the world, and humans prepare to battle against the newborn force.
by Gary Brandner
. The film, however, varies greatly from its source material.
Production began on the film in Canada
in May 2010. The film was released direct to video in late October 2011.
Werewolf
A werewolf, also known as a lycanthrope , is a mythological or folkloric human with the ability to shapeshift into a wolf or an anthropomorphic wolf-like creature, either purposely or after being placed under a curse...
-themed horror film
Horror film
Horror films seek to elicit a negative emotional reaction from viewers by playing on the audience's most primal fears. They often feature scenes that startle the viewer through the means of macabre and the supernatural, thus frequently overlapping with the fantasy and science fiction genres...
written by Joe Nimziki and released direct to video on 18 October 2011.
Plot
Catherine is attacked by a werewolf. After many years her son Will is living with his father and is a student in a highly secured school. His best friend Sachin is making a horror project film and is planning to broadcast it by hacking into news channels illegally. Will has a crush on Eliana, but her current boyfriend scares him off. Later Eliana invites him for a night party where then, suddenly, a creature attacks. Somehow Will escapes. He later asks Sachin on his ideas about werewolves. He tests himself by causing a wound which heals itself in a flick of time thus reminding him he has became a werewolf. Afterwards its revealed that Catherine is still alive and she kills his father and comes for him in school to remind him who he is. Confronted by the truth that his mother is a werewolf, he saves Eliana from being attacked by other members of the wolf pack. But the school bells ring and its security system gets activated, thus, cutting them off from the outside world.Will remembers Sachin's advice that werewolves can only be killed by silver bullets or fire and both of them equip themselves with handmade flame throwers. In the security room they find Sachin is being killed by one of the werewolves, so they go in the basement, only to find that Catherine is raising an army of werewolves.
They escape. In the process Will kills a werewolf by stabbing it with a silver trophy. Afterwards Eliana forces Will to turn her into a werewolf about which he is reluctant. He somehow manages to stop himself from doing so when he accidentally scratches her back with his claws.
When making an escape Eliana is taken by Catherine to force Will to become a werewolf. They both battle each other, but Catherine is too powerful to be killed by silver bullets. It's then he realizes that she is the alpha female. Just when she is about to kill him another werewolf attacks her by ripping her heart out. Will realizes that the werewolf is none other than Eliana, who is transformed because of her wounds. They burn the school down so that the other newborn werewolves can't escape.
In the post credit scenes it's shown that the video created by Will showing his transformation and warning the world about werewolves existence is circulated all over the world, and humans prepare to battle against the newborn force.
Cast
- Landon LiboironLandon LiboironLandon Liboiron is a Gemini Award nominated Canadian actor. He is best known for his role as Declan in Degrassi: The Next Generation, later named Degrassi. He currently stars in the Fox television series Terra Nova, as 17-year-old Josh Shannon....
as Will Kidman - Lindsey ShawLindsey ShawLindsey Marie Shaw is an American actress. She is known for her starring television roles as Jennifer "Moze" Ann Mosely on Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide and as Claire Tolchuck on Aliens in America.-Career:...
as Eliana Wynter - Ivana MilicevicIvana Milicevic-Early life:Miličević was born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina to a Croatian family, the daughter of Tonka, a homemaker, and Damir Miličević, a slaughterhouse worker and entrepreneur. She emigrated to the United States at the age of five and was raised in Michigan...
as Catherine Kidman - Jesse Rath as Sachin
- Niels Schneider as Roland
- Frank Schorpion as Jack Kidman
- Kristian Hodko as Tribe
Production
The film is mostly unrelated to the previous installments except the credits state that the film is based upon the novel The Howling IIThe Howling II (novel)
The Howling II is a 1979 horror novel by Gary Brandner. It is the first sequel to his 1977 werewolf novel, The Howling. The novel was later republished under the alternative titles: The Howling II: The Return, and also Return Of The Howling.Despite the ongoing film series that began in the 1980s,...
by Gary Brandner
Gary Brandner
Gary Brandner is an American horror author best known for his werewolf themed trilogy of novels, The Howling. The first book in the series was loosely adapted as a motion picture in 1981...
. The film, however, varies greatly from its source material.
Production began on the film in Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
in May 2010. The film was released direct to video in late October 2011.