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3	''Howling III: The Marsupials'' is a sequel to ''Film/TheHowling'', released in 1987. It stars Creator/BarryOtto (father of [[Creator/MirandaOtto Miranda]]) and is written and directed by Philippe Mora, who previously directed ''[[Film/HowlingIIStirbaWerewolfBitch Howling II]]''.
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5	It was the first film in the series to be made outside the United States, being produced and shot entirely on-location in Mora's native Australia.
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8	!!''Howling III: The Marsupials'' provides examples of:
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10	* AshesToCrashes: The ashes of a deceased werewolf emerge from the remains of a funeral pyre to attack a group of hunters.
11	* BadBadActing: The in-universe movie ''It Came From Uranus'' is full of this for the scene we get to see.
12	* InconsistentSpelling: The film is largely known as ''Howling III'' and its posters call it ''Howling III: The Marsupials'', but its actual onscreen title is ''The Marsupials: The Howling III.''
13	* InvoluntaryShapeshifter: Do ''not'' flash strobe lights in a werewolf's eyesight. They ''will'' transform whenever that happens, whether you like it or not.
14	* LandDownunder: Takes place in Australia, but what really makes it an example is that it features people transforming into Tasmanian Tigers instead of Wolves.
15	* LighterAndSofter: The only film in the franchise to receive a PG-13 rating.
16	* LogoJoke: The intro replaced the lion roar of the MGM logo with a quick film clip of a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thylacine thylacine]] roaring.
17	* MoodDissonance: WordOfGod says it's a comedy, but the tone makes it not clear if this is supposed to be a comedy, a horror, or a GreenAesop about not hunting animals to extinction. According to the director, [[CrypticallyUnhelpfulAnswer it's all of them and none of them.]]
18	* OurWerebeastsAreDifferent: Features were-thylacines. Thylacines are an extinct marsupial predator more commonly known as the Tasmanian Tiger. They're portrayed as quite sympathetic, but also more disgusting than standard werewolves when it comes to bodily functions. For one thing, they have pouches, even in otherwise fully human form.
19	* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: We are introduced to were[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thylacine thylacines]]. The movie also implies that the therianthropes of that reality are akin to the wolves in ''Anime/WolfsRain'', as they've evolved to become human to survive human persecution of their baser species (the wolves in Russia, thylacines in Australia). What makes that especially weird is that, despite being ten a penny in the rest of the world, [[SadlyMythtaken shapeshifting myths are completely unknown in Australia]].
20	* SdrawkcabAlias: The town of Flow.
21	* ShowWithinAShow: There are two. Donny is acting in a horror film called ''The Shapershifters Part 8''. He wants Jerboa to join the cast, but she's never seen a horror film before, so he takes her to a [[UnabashedBMovieFan B-movie]] called ''It Came from Uranus''.
22	* StandAloneEpisode: Whereas ''II'' follows directly on from the first film, and the following four sequels are revealed to form a BroadStrokes continuity in ''New Moon Rising'', this entry is completely divorced any of the other films. However, there is a possible stealth reference to the original movie (and by extension the second film) when Olga is asked about the locations of other werewolves, she responds "Africa... China... Maybe California." The original film took place in California. ''II'' started there and moved to Transylvania.
23	* TakeThat: The film was a direct response by director Philippe Mora to the [[Film/HowlingIIStirbaWerewolfBitch second film]], which was heavily recut without his input during post-production. Mora produced the film himself and kept the production inside his native Australia in order to maintain complete creative control.
24	* WonderfulWerewolf; For the most part it seems that the were-thylacines are not aggressive towards humans except out of self-defense or defense of fellow lycanthropes due to humanity’s FantasticRacism towards them and they simply want to be left alone, ultimately they are even able to begin integrating into society when they are given amnesty by the American government and the Catholic Church.
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