Howling III: The Marsupials

Philippe Mora takes the Howling franchise Down Under for a bonkers Ozsploitation sequel with everything from Barry Otto to werewolf nuns, interspecies romance, Dame Edna, a sentient skeleton, and a beautiful protagonist named for a hopping desert rodent.

'Incredibly in Australia many didn’t realise the film was supposed to be funny. Fortunately a powerful critic, Vincent Canby of The New York Times, easily got the gags and his review made the film an immediate financial success... Sometimes it takes time to be understood, although how anyone could take Howling III as ‘straight’ is still beyond me.' (Phillipe Mora, in an interview for The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia).

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