This is one of the better horror movies shot in the period right after the fall of the Iron Curtain in Eastern Europe. It's not a great by any means - in fact it borrows heavily from the 1970s film "The Beast Must Die" (itself a riff on the "Ten Little Indians" theme), but it is kind of fun in its way. It has nothing whatever to do with the previous "Howling films, which at least means you can see it without sitting through four previous movies for it to make sense. Basically, it's a slasher film in which a collection of fairly ill-defined characters are isolated in a lonely Hungarian castle and eliminated one by one by something that may or may not be a werewolf, and which is surely one of them (but which one?). My favorite Howling Movie is still #7, "New Moon Rising," but this is a respectable entry in the series.
Review of Howling V: The Rebirth
