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Howling IV: The Original Nightmare (1988)

Howling IV: The Original Nightmare poster
Directed by
John Hough
Genre
horror film, werewolf film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 34m
Rated
R
Rating
4.6 of 10 from 134 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A woman moves to a remote mountain town after a nervous breakdown. She starts to suspect the locals are hiding a dark secret involving werewolves.

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What happens

Howling IV: The Original Nightmare is a 1988 British direct-to-video horror film directed by John Hough from a screenplay by Freddie Rowe and Clive Turner. 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 rather a more faithful adaptation of Gary Brandner's source novel The Howling (1977). International Video Entertainment (IVE) released this film directly to home video in 1988. Platinum Disc Corporation (now Echo Bridge Home Entertainment) released it on DVD in 2004 and it has been released numerous times since. It was filmed on location in South Africa. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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