Howling III The Marsupials

The Howling III The Marsupials (1987)

The Plot: An anthropologist sees footage of Australian aborigines killing what looks like a werewolf so he sets out to prove that and gets more than he bargained for! 

  Another completely bonkers werewolf movie! One that says what attribute from the animal kingdom can we give to add to the menace of the werewolf? Boar tusks? tentacles? venomous fangs? Nope! Reproducing through a pouch like a marsupial! YES! THAT'S IT!!! So yes, the young woman who is a werewolf in this movie, Jerboa, gives birth to her young which then migrate to her marsupial pouch to incubate. 
Nothing is more terrifying than a newborn werewolf entering its mother's marsupial pouch
  Meanwhile, anthropologist Professor Harry Beckmeyer is on his own crusade to prove the existence of werewolves. Which he does ultimately do by falling in love with a Russian ballerina who turns into a werewolf mid show due to strobe lights. That is the magic that makes werewolves. You thought it was a full moon? Bah! Wrong! It's strobe lighting. They then go to the wolf hideout, which is a town called Flow which is...wait for it...wolf spelled backwards. If I was a werewolf living incognito in a hippie werewolf commune, i probably wouldn't name it Flow. Might as well call it Ain't-No-Werewolves-Here.
My favorite ballet is Wolf Lake
    The movie ends with Jerboa winning an academy award and turning into a werewolf mid-acceptance speech due to the flash bulbs of the paparazzi. You think she'd have enough experience as a werewolf to see that coming. But hey! it's probably the closest any werewolf movie will get to an academy award. Let me recap the other batshit stuff that goes on: Jerboa's 3 werewolf sisters dressed as nuns, The Australian professor who can get a meeting with the President of the USA anytime he wants. I don;t know why he skips over the Australian Prime Minister and goes straight to the President of the USA. Seems like Australian marsupial werewolves may be out of his jurisdiction. The presenter of the academy award for best actress is Dame Edna. The movie ends a good 15 years after Jerboa has her baby, and we see the baby grown up, but the movie doesn't bother to age the other actors. Sweet!
Why does no one cosplay the werewolf nuns from the Howling III?
  The Howling II the Marsupials is absurd, so that is why i am giving it 6 Dame Ednas!

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