History Film / HowlingIIStirbaWerewolfBitch

''Howling II: Stirba - Werewolf Bitch'', also known as ''Howling II: Your Sister is a Werewolf'', is a sequel to ''Film/TheHowling'', released in 1985.

* DolledUpInstallment: A frequent speculation is that the film is an adaptation of a probably-unrelated vampire script to hastily add in some (pretty tenuous) connections to the original ''Film/TheHowling'', most notably the fact that seemingly every major vampire weakness now applies to werewolves.

-->[[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment Spoony]]: This leads to a scene later on where the dwarf becomes a zombie, who dresses like a girl, and attacks people with a knife; so, [[Creator/RebBrown Reb]] has to throw a midget out a window! [{{Beat}}] [[{{Understatement}} ...this is kind of a weird movie!]]

* DueToTheDead: At the start of the film, [[spoiler: Karen]] receives a Christian burial; her body is laid to rest in a mausoleum at the church's graveyard.
* TheEndOrIsIt: Towards the end, Ben and Jenny [[spoiler: meet a kid in a supposed werewolf costume who's apparently sensitive to Ben's compliments of his "costume". Then they go to what they think is his apartment number and meet a weird guy who says he has no children but wants Ben and Jenny over for dinner in his own slightly unhinged way. It's after this that Ben and Jenny realize that their werewolf problems might not be fully behind them yet. 90s airings of the movie played it even more straight by revealing a family of giggling werewolves in a room]].

* FlashbackWithTheOtherDarrin: They don't even make [[spoiler: Karen's on-air transformation]] remotely look like the scene from the first movie. Possibly lampshaded when Ben calls the footage he is shown fake and claims the Karen in the video looks nothing like his sister.

* MutualKill: [[spoiler: Stefan and Stirba burn together in the end]].

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Two examples-- Stirba, properly pronounced "Still-buh." It was derived from the German word "sterben" [still-ben] which means "die." Stefan and Stirba's followers say it properly (which makes sense since Christopher Lee was fluent in German). Everyone else in the movie improperly says it as "Stir-buh" (even the voice-over in the European trailer says it as "Stir-buh").
** Most online spellings (including above) spell Stefan's surname as "Crosscoe." However, that is a real name, but it is only spelt with one 's'-- "Croscoe."

--> '''Stefan:''' This type of bullet, Mr. White, means '''your sister is a werewolf.'''

* WeaksauceWeakness: Stirba is so old that she somehow became immune to silver. Luckily for the heroes, it appears that werewolves, including Stirba, also can be harmed by titanium weapons. For some odd reason [[spoiler: Karen]] is also immune to silver, despite only having been a werewolf for a couple of weeks at most.

* Also Erle (John Carradine in the first movie, Ferdy Mayne in this ne==one) reappears only to die at about the same time.

-->[[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment Spoony]]: This leads to a scene later on where the dwarf becomes a zombie, who dresses like a girl, and attacks people with a knife; so, Reb has to throw a midget out a window! [{{Beat}}] ...this is kind of a weird movie!

* MsFanservice: Virtually every moment that Sybil Danning spends on-screen in the film. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4r7sXM7_X1g Especially the end credits]], which take it UpToEleven by repeating the scene where Stirba rips off her top ''sixteen times.''

* TimeAbyss: Unlike other werewolves, Stirba can restore her youth. She is very nearly ten thousand years old. Taken UpToEleven in the Russian dub, where she ''predates humanity''.

* GenreThrowback: to the lavish GothicHorror films produced by [[HammerHorror Hammer]] in the 1950s-70s, complete with a spooky castle, an {{Uberwald}} setting, gratuitous nudity, and Hammer veterans Creator/ChristopherLee and Marsha Hunt. This is in stark contrast to the first film, which deliberately tried to modernize werewolf lore in an urban American setting with lots of focus on technology like television and tape recorders that didn't exist when the old tropes were being formed.

* ActorAllusion: The huge amounts of OurWerewolvesAreDifferent, mainly replacing the vampires in vampire lore with werewolves, were probably added to reference Creator/ChristopherLee's performance as Literature/{{Dracula}}.

* SilverBullet: Subverts this trope and reveals that silver bullets don't always kill werewolves, they just incapacitate them for a while. The real metal of choice when dealing with werewolves is titanium. Silver bullets work just fine against young werewolves (as shown in the first film in the series), but ancients like Stirba are immune to silver, which is where the titanium comes into play.

* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: The ''Holy Grail'' gets casually mentioned when Stefan lists the heroes' werewolf-killing weapons before the final assault and nobody as much as bats an eye.
** Jontron even highlights this. Saying nobody questions why or how he has it. And the fact it means Jesus Christ himself is real, but is never brought up.

* BlindIdiotTranslation: In the Russian bootleg translation, the translator mixed up milleniums and millions, and thus made poor Stirba ten ''million'' years old - [[ArtisticLicensePaleontology far older than humanity itself]].