Eight films, and only the first two are a real sequel pair. The fourth is not a prequel, it is the first novel filmed again.
Watch the 1981 film, then the second if you want the only real sequel. After that the series is a shelf of unrelated films that happen to share a title.
Seen some of these already? Tap the circles to tick them off. The full list below fills in as you go.
Joe Dante, John Sayles on the script, and the transformation scene everybody remembers. It is the only entry in the series anyone needs to have seen.
The only film that continues the first one, opening at the funeral of its heroine. It is also very silly, and Christopher Lee apologised for it, so go in expecting a different kind of film.
Worth its own place because it is not a sequel at all. It films the same novel the 1981 film came from, more faithfully, so it works as an alternative version of the original rather than a continuation. The subtitle misleads people into expecting an origin story.
Then what? Howling III from 1987 is a standalone Australian film about marsupial werewolves. Films five and six are self contained one offs. New Moon Rising from 1995 loosely ties four, five and six together, so if you want that mini run, watch IV, V, VI and then New Moon Rising in that order, and know that New Moon Rising is mostly recycled footage. Reborn from 2011 connects to nothing.
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