review for Howling II: Your Sister Is a Werewolf on AllMovie

This laughable exercise in horror-sequel tomfoolery substitutes kinky T & A, spurious goth/new wave trappings, and the presence of horror vets Christopher Lee and Ferdy Mayne for the wit and inventive effects work that characterized the original. Luckily for viewers, Howling II: Your Sister Is a Werewolf quickly strays into so-bad-it's-good camp appeal. Softcore queen Sybil Danning provides much of the viewing pleasure, both in and out of her many S & M outfits. Presiding over a combination "punk" concert/werewolf orgy and engaging in a shapeshifter ménage à trois, she keeps the flick from taking itself too seriously. Not that the script, by Gary Brandner and Robert Sarno, doesn't try to pile on cliché after overheated horror cliché. Petrified bat-monsters, valiant clergymen, masked midgets, and even a frightful ethnic folk festival all find their way into this kitchen-sink clunker. Then there's the padded-out closing montage, which includes a dozen or so instant replays of Danning's most picturesque disrobement. Putative heroine Annie McEnroe has the most simultaneously whiney and flaccid voice this side of Mira Sorvino in Mighty Aphrodite, but at least her pipes manage to make some sort of impression. That's more than can be said of her acting, or that of anybody else in the cast. Later Howling sequels would drift into a more polished form of banality, but for utter what-were-they-thinking ineptitude, it's hard to beat this wretched howler.