A brilliant film that helped define a genre

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

It is both painfully honest and laugh-out-loud funny at the same time.

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

I'm aware that I couldn't expect much from a micro-budget movie made by complete amateurs, but am I too much of a diva if I want my werewolf movie to have, you know ... a werewolf? I 'happened' to be looking at the clock during the big transformation scene: our werewolf doesn't actually show up until we're 87 minutes in! I should probably point out that this movie is 89 minutes long. What on Earth do they fill the rest of the time with? Well, line-dancing and horrible country music of course. Most cheap horror movies have filler scenes to pad out the running time, but this movie is different. This is literally nothing but padding. Every scene in this movie is solely made to run out the clock. Occasionally the movie teases you with a stock footage werewolf from "Howling V", but mostly it's satisfied with just having rednecks do fart jokes. Horror movies often have some actors that have never been in anything else, but the cast of "Howling: New Moon Rising" honestly looks like they've never even seen a movie. I guess there's a sick pleasure in seeing these non-actors desperately trying to get through this dialogue unscathed, but that's all the pleasure you'll get from this movie.

After reading the description of this film I thought it was similar to Howling VI: The Freaks since it's about a hitch hiker rolling into town but sadly it didn't quite have charm of Howling VI: The Freaks.The main problem like many people have said it lacks the Werewolf and I guess that's true. I didn't mind watching it, perhaps because I enjoy watching some movies that are so bad there funny. Clive Turner wrote, produced and directed this film and starred in it. His performance is good like in Howling V.Another interesting thing about this movie is that it tries to have a connection with Howling IV and Howling V with certain characters retuning or names being mentioned.Howling VII: Mystery Woman could of been greater if they had a higher budget that could of gave a greater Werewolf effect. Not a bad film though. 5/10

I confess. I am easily entertained. When it comes to werewolf films, I hope to see two things: a female werewolf and a transformation scene. I barely got both when I watched this film on TV a number of years ago.I watched this film on TNT a few years ago and thought, "Hey, this should be good." Boy, was I wrong. It was a waste of two hours of my young life. The film was nothing but a bunch of off-key country music and clips from Howling IV, V, and VI. I don't see the werewolf and/or a transformation scene until the near end of the movie! How appalling.In my view, the ONLY good thing about this is how deliciously evil Mary Lou (Elizabeth Shé) was in the film's "climatic" scene. As you remember, Mary Lou was revealed as the werewolf in Howling V. And, despite the fact it happened too quickly, she did transform into a werewolf, or what passed as one in that film.All in all, Clive Turner really messed up here. He had to, if he could please someone who is easily entertained.

Truly awful :) So much so it's good - so maybe it should get a 5? Being a bit of a werewolf movie fan I did the Pokemon thing with The Howling and got the lot - all seven. Not only is this one definitely the worst of the bunch (forget all those Howling II comments!), it's the very worst werewolf movie ever - for SO many reasons! I love it! First off, the opening shots over the credits, the director can't direct, the cameraman can't frame the shots, the cutting room have no idea how to cut - it really does set the tone of the whole movie. The dialogue needs to be heard to be believed, especially the conversation in the bar about various ailments - seriously, you need to stick with this film. NOBODY can act, the script is awful, the characters are either characterLESS, wooden, or if you're feeling generous, quirky to a man / woman - check out the old bar owners. It gets better...the whole thing is set to a surreal Country and Western soundtrack, with plenty of line-dancing, yes, line dancing. The pace is pedestrian throughout, there's no tension, the plot simply isn't a plot. They use this 'wolf's eye filter thing' for kill shots (not that there's many of them) and the transformation scene is amazing! Take a photo of a person and another of some monkey creature that looks as much like a werewolf as the creature from the black lagoon, then get the cheapest freeware morph package you can find on 'Google' and you'll get the idea. I swear the background morphs into bits of the werewolf too. I warn you, watching this is an endurance exercise - a test of YOUR character - can you sit through it all WITHOUT fast-forwarding any of it (I couldn't... but then I'm no fan of Country Music). If you love werewolf movies, you MUST watch this - it sets the baseline against which to measure everything else. If you like vampire movies too and have seen Ankle Biters, Howling VII is a similar experience. Oh and did I mention the weird preacher that looks like Abe Lincolyn without his top hat and the sheriff in the white suit and that they flash back to chunks of the Howling IV and V and that the main guy is an Australian with a ponytail (Clive Turner), who is involved in one way or another in, yes you've guessed it, Howling IV and V? Now you'd have thought being an Ozzie he'd have been in in Howling III. Oh yes, this movie is special, sure nuff. Enjoy ;-)