Howling IV: The Original Nightmare

Howling IV: The Original Nightmare
DVD release cover
Directed byJohn Hough
Screenplay by
  • Freddie Rowe
  • Clive Turner
Story byClive Turner
Based onNovel
by Gary Brandner
Produced byHarry Alan Towers
Starring
CinematographyGodfrey A. Godar
Edited by
  • Malcolm Burns-Errington
  • Claudia Finkle
Music by
  • David George
  • Barrie Guard
  • Justin Hayward
Production
company
Allied Vision
Distributed byPresident Home Entertainment
(CBS/Fox Video UK)
Release date
  • July 3, 1988 (July 3, 1988)
Running time
94 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Howling IV: The Original Nightmare is a 1988 British[1] direct-to-video horror film directed by John Hough from a screenplay by Freddie Rowe and Clive Turner.[2] 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).[citation needed]

International Video Entertainment (IVE) released this film directly to home video in 1988.[3] 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.

  1. ^ "Howling IV The Original Nightmare (1988)". BFI. Archived from the original on July 6, 2018. Retrieved May 21, 2022.
  2. ^ Variety film review; 23 November 1988
  3. ^ Mann, Dave (2014). Harry Alan Towers: The Transnational Career of a Cinematic Contrarian. McFarland & Company. p. 132. ISBN 9781476615233.