The Howling 2 Stirba Werewolfbitch (1985)
Howling 2 Stirba Werewolfbitch (aka Howling II: Your Sister Is a Werewolf) is an American horror film from 1985 directed by Philippe Mora. Starring Christopher Lee, Sybil Danning and Marsha Hunt.
Plot
After countless millennia of watching, waiting and stalking, the unholy creatures known as werewolves are poised to inherit the earth. After newswoman Karen White’s shocking on-screen transformation and violent death, her brother Ben is approached by Stefan Crosscoe, a mysterious gentleman who claims that Karen has actually become a werewolf. But this is the least of their worries… To save mankind, Stefan and Ben must travel to Transylvania to battle and destroy Stirba, the immortal queen of all werewolves, before she is restored to her full powers.
Notable scenes
The werewolf orgy scene.
Making of Howling 2 Stirba Werewolfbitch
Director Philippe Mora didn’t know that Sir Christopher Lee was a war hero in Czechoslovakia. This was not something he was allowed to talk about, but during World War II, he was part of an Intelligence Agency, and so when they showed up to film this movie in Czechoslovakia, he was greeted with a hero’s welcome at the airport when they arrived
That’s when Philippe first found out about his past, how he had been involved with killing one of the top Nazi officials, Reinhard Heydrich, and everything. Philippe couldn’t believe it. One day, he took Philippe to Prague to visit a church. He remembers Sir Christopher Lee saying, “Dear boy, please come with me and let me tell you about what I’ve seen”, and he then took Philippe inside to the basement and proceeded to tell him a story about how this was a place where people had been trapped by the Nazis and some very terrible things occurred there. It was such a profound moment for Philippe, because he realized just from where Christopher’s gravitas came, he had seen true horror first-hand in his lifetime, and he used that in his performances. He was also a Nazi hunter for a couple of years after World War II
When Christopher Lee reads from the Book of Revelation, his Bible is opened near the middle. But this book is the last book of the Bible.
The rifle that Stefan gabe Ben in the church, Stefan telling him that it belonged to Vasile, appears in the following forest scenes to be the exact same rifle Ben was carrying into the cemetery in L.A. earlier in the movie.
Our view on Howling 2
The Howling 2 is a trashy eighties movie. Christopher Lee puts some class in it but then there is Sybil Danning in big hair shooting lasers from her finger tips.
And there are candlelit churches, graveyards, dangerous forests, Transylvanian (actually Czech) scenery, and the castle of the werewolf queen. Stirba’s bedroom has velvet drapes and candles, which clash not too subtly together with cheaply garish red sheets. Good background for an orgy with Marsha Hunt and another wolf. Exploitflix Must See!