YMMV / Howling II: Stirba: Werewolf Bitch

• Accidental Innuendo:
  • The line "This is nonsense, I will not embed my steak (stake) in my own dead sister!"
  • Also, this exchange:
    Jenny: We'll come later.
    Creepy neighbor: I hope so! (terrifying grin) I hope so...
• Awesome Music: Babel's "Howling" during the end credits - not that anyone was really paying attention.
• Best Known for the Fanservice: Sybil Danning tearing her top off is repeated 17 times during the closing credits of II (reportedly, Danning was mortified by this).
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment:
  • The entire ending can be considered this as Ben and Jenny become a couple and meet what seems to be a trick-or-treater kid in a werewolf mask, except that it's heavily implied that the kid was actually a werewolf as he starts crying the minute Ben says he had a "cool costume." Then the couple knock on the door where the kid supposedly lived and meet a weird guy who seems a little too overeager for Ben and Jenny to come over for dinner. Considering how there was no foreshadowing how werewolves could maintain sentience and normal speech in their wolf forms and the fact that the weird guy at the end came completely out of left-field, the ending to the movie can be considered one bizarre, out-of-place sequence that leaves more questions than answers and leaves you confused whether they were really shooting for a happy ending or a more classic horror movie ending where the monsters still survive.
  • Airings of the movie on the USA Network (with the original "Werewolf Bitch" title, no less) in the 90s featured an extended bit where the camera moved down the hall to reveal a giggling family of werewolves in one of the rooms. This ending reportedly appeared on the Australian VHS as well.
• Complete Monster: Stirba, the titular "werewolf bitch", is the queen of all werewolves, precipitating millennia of murder through them and staying immortal by regularly draining young women of their life to feed her own. Vying to have werewolves reveal themselves and take over the world, Stirba relentlessly drives to murder her brother Stefan, gruesomely murdering two of his allies and attempting to tempt him into her clutches to slay him for good in the climax.
• Fetish Retardant: The werewolf orgy that Stirba initiates and takes part in. If they were all fully human it would just be straight fanservice, and if they were full wolves having sex it would probably be as banal as something out of the Discovery channel. However, because they're partially transformed it looks like some bizarre furry fantasy.
• Fridge Brilliance: Titanium is much more prevalent than silver nowadays, but titanium was not identified as a separate element until 1791, pure titanium metal was not produced until 1910, and industrial production didn't begin until the late 1940s. Silver, on the other hand, is one of the first metals that humankind produced, so for most of their history, these werewolves were only vulnerable to a metal that essentially didn't even exist.
• Narm: The second film has so much of it that it practically becomes Narm Charm. Especially dialogues like "What did he say? - That your sister is a werewolf. - This is bullshit!" Or "We'll come later - I hope [Memetic Molester face], I hope :)".
• Questionable Casting: Reb Brown, who as Spoony once said "has the acting range of an airhorn," in a role that requires him to be emotionally vulnerable while grieving for his dead sister. He...doesn't exactly pull it off.
• Signature Scene: Sybil Danning ripping her top off, a shot which is looped 17 times during the end credits, ensuring that if you somehow didn't remember it after the first time, you definitely will by the 18th.
• So Bad, It's Good: This is the only one of the films with which the author of the original book trilogy, Gary Brandner, was directly involved (though his work was completely discarded by a secondary writer).
• Took the Bad Film Seriously: Christopher Lee is so serious and dramatic in comparison with the general stupidity of the film that it is incredibly narmy.

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