Howling III

Howling III: The Marsupials
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Directed byPhilippe Mora
Written by
  • Philippe Mora
Based onThe Howling III: Echoes
by Gary Brandner
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyLouis Irving
Edited byLee Smith
Music byAllan Zavod
Distributed byCBS/Fox Video
Release date
  • 13 November 1987 (1987-11-13)
Running time
94 minutes
CountryAustralia[1]
LanguageEnglish
Budget$2 million[2] or $1 million[3]

Howling III (also known as Howling III: The Marsupials and The Marsupials: The Howling III) is a 1987 Australian comedy-horror film and the sequel to The Howling, directed by Philippe Mora and filmed on location in and around Sydney, Australia.[4] Starring Barry Otto, Imogen Annesley and Max Fairchild, Howling III is the only PG-13 rated entry in the Howling film series and also the last film in the series to be released theatrically. In this sequel, werewolves have evolved, with females having marsupial-like pouches to nurse their young. Scientists attempt to study them, while soldiers try to track and kill them in the Australian Outback.

Although Gary Brandner, author of the Howling novel series, approved the director's purchase of the rights to the name The Howling and the screen credits claim that it is based on Brandner's novel The Howling III: Echoes, the novel is set in the United States and has a different story than the film, with only slight similarities in terms of plot and a sympathetic view of werewolves. This aspect would be revisited in Howling VI: The Freaks.

  1. ^ "The Marsupials: The Howling III (1987)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 24 October 2016. Retrieved 23 October 2016.
  2. ^ "Australian Productions Top $175 million", Cinema Papers, March 1986 p64
  3. ^ Philippe Mora, 'Werewolves du jour: Philippe Mora on the making and selling of Australian myth', ACMI, June 2008 Archived 28 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 28 September 2012
  4. ^ Ed. Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995, Oxford Uni Press 1996, p. 106