A villainous carnival owner (Bruce Payne) traps a young werewolf Ian (Brenden Hughes) to include in his growing menagerie of inhuman exhibits. However, Ian escapes with the help of his love Elizabeth (Michele Matheson) and a supernatural battle ensues between the villain Harker and the kindly Ian.
Howling VI: The Freaks was a pretty enjoyable little film to sit throw, this was director Hope Perello's first film, she would go on to only direct two comedies after this and that's it, what I can see she does a good job here., The only thing that really kills this one is the werewolf effects which look more like a hairy man then anything else, Steve Johnson and company (who also did the effects for Parts two and four) did the effects here and while I like him and his team, the werewolf and transformations just mostly falls flat, its like they had good intentions, but, didn't have the budget to go all the way. This one also like part three has a plot which makes you fell for the werewolf rather then route against them, there's also a sly reference to part five here as well, when Elizabeth She who played Mary Lou who turned out to be the werewolf from that film makes a brief cameo here, my favorite Howling sequel still has to be Howling V but part six is definitely second, making both of these probably the best of the sequels. the acting was decent and Bruce Payne who played Harker really did a nice job in one of his earlier performances, Brenden Hughes as Ian also does fine as well, the rest of the cast in pretty decent with veteran actress Carol Lynley and Antonio Fargas of "Starsky & Hutch" fame also here as supporting characters.
As for violence, there's not really a lot of gore, some werewolf and vampire kills nothing to graphic, bodies show up latter in the film bloodied, a vampire in the end disintegrates is kind of nasty. As for nudity None, that I could remember.
All in all, Its pretty entertaining when the whole werewolf, vampire action isn't going on, the carnival scenes manage to keep your attention till the good stuff shows up. As said along with Part five its the best of the sequels so far so definitely give it a watch.
Howling VI: The Freaks was a pretty enjoyable little film to sit throw, this was director Hope Perello's first film, she would go on to only direct two comedies after this and that's it, what I can see she does a good job here., The only thing that really kills this one is the werewolf effects which look more like a hairy man then anything else, Steve Johnson and company (who also did the effects for Parts two and four) did the effects here and while I like him and his team, the werewolf and transformations just mostly falls flat, its like they had good intentions, but, didn't have the budget to go all the way. This one also like part three has a plot which makes you fell for the werewolf rather then route against them, there's also a sly reference to part five here as well, when Elizabeth She who played Mary Lou who turned out to be the werewolf from that film makes a brief cameo here, my favorite Howling sequel still has to be Howling V but part six is definitely second, making both of these probably the best of the sequels. the acting was decent and Bruce Payne who played Harker really did a nice job in one of his earlier performances, Brenden Hughes as Ian also does fine as well, the rest of the cast in pretty decent with veteran actress Carol Lynley and Antonio Fargas of "Starsky & Hutch" fame also here as supporting characters.
As for violence, there's not really a lot of gore, some werewolf and vampire kills nothing to graphic, bodies show up latter in the film bloodied, a vampire in the end disintegrates is kind of nasty. As for nudity None, that I could remember.
All in all, Its pretty entertaining when the whole werewolf, vampire action isn't going on, the carnival scenes manage to keep your attention till the good stuff shows up. As said along with Part five its the best of the sequels so far so definitely give it a watch.