Howling III: The Marsupials
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| Directed by | Philippe Mora |
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The Howling III: Echoes by Gary Brandner |
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| Music by | Allan Zavod |
| Cinematography | Louis Irving |
| Edited by | Lee Smith |
| Distributed by | Screen Media Films |
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94 minutes |
| Country | Australia |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $2 million or $1 million |
Howling III (also known as Howling III: The Marsupials and The Marsupials: The Howling III) is a 1987 Australian horror sequel to The Howling, directed by Philippe Mora and filmed on location in and around Sydney, Australia. Starring Barry Otto, Imogen Annesley and Max Fairchild, Howling III is the only PG-13 rated entry in the Howling series. The film has several subplots including scientists experimenting on werewolves, a young werewolf woman Jerboa searching for a better life, and soldiers hunting them.
Although Gary Brandner, author of the Howling novel series, approved the director's purchase of the right 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 to 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.
In this film, Australian werewolves have evolved separate from the rest of the werewolf population. They are marsupials – the female werewolves give birth to partly developed offspring, which then makes its way to a pouch for further development.
Harry Beckmeyer (Barry Otto), an Australian anthropologist, has somehow obtained footage filmed in 1905 which appears to depict Australian Aborigines ceremonially sacrificing a wolf-like creature. Alarmed by the reports of a werewolf killing a man in Russia, he seeks an audience with the U.S. President (Michael Pate) to try and warn him that there is a widespread case of lycanthropy afoot in the world. The President is dismissive.
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