Tagline(s):	For 500 years the secret lay dormant... Until now!
	The Beast Returns

Nomination Year: 2023

SYNOPSIS: More like The Afterbirth, because this obvious cash-grabs is just a sloppy-seconds rehash of the rest of the franchise. In a classic "Monster in the House" bit, a bunch of people are holed up by a blizzard in a castle in the Carpathian Mountains of Hungary, where years before, the last of a bloodline of werewolves escaped destruction as a baby. Now, as a couple of the modern-day tourists die mysteriously, it beocomes obvkious to the rest that there's a werewolf in their midst. What follows next is basically Agatha Christie's Ten Little Indians, but with werewolves. Everyone suspects everyone else and paranoia reigns as the deaths continue. Secret passages, underground tunnels, and convenient weapons abound. For all the action I'm describing, the plot plods along at a slug's pace and you really never get to see a good look at the werewolf.

Smithee Award Nominations

Inane Dialogue
Friends Don't Let Friends Turn into Werewolves "Shoot him, Marylou!" "No, shoot him!" No, shoot ME. She does finally pick a target, and David reassures her that it was all just a myth and "People don't turn into werewolves." *She smirks*

"Let's Up The Rating To 'R'"
"Hey, Let's Get Naked in the Creepy Castle and Compare Birthmarks!" Ray manages to get Marylou (played by the lovely Elizabeth She) naked by convincing her that naked bathing together is a local custom. It's also a thinly-disguised reason for the birthmark plot point. Unfortunate couple of minutes between bare ass and bare breasts.	Sorry, this clip has not yet been made available!

Directors

Director	Claim to Fame
Neal Sundstrom	Directed the Dark Desires movies as well as Space Mutiny.

Cast

Actor	Character	Claim to Fame
Phil Davis	The Count	Prolific British Actor. Was Kevin Dodd in Alien3 , DS Miles on "Whitechapel," Stan in Vera Drake, and Benedict Cumberbatch's first nemesis-- the bad-guy Taxi Driver in the first episode of the "Sherlock" series.
Victoria Catlin	Dr. Catherine Peake	Blackie O'Reilly on 1990's "Twin Peaks"; Anastasia in Ghoulies; Babette in Mutant on the Bounty.
Elizabeth Shé	Marylou Summers	Plays some character named "Mary Lou" (or some variant) in three of the Howling movies.
Ben Cole	David	Johnny in Edge of Sanity and Swift in Cyber Eden.
William Shockley	Richard	Was the "Creep" when Robocop said, "Drop it, Creep." Was Andrew Carver in Showgirls and Hank Lawson on "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman."
Mark Sivertsen	Jonathan	State Trooper in Paul; Highway Patrolman in Vampires; Agent Skiletti in Felon. See the pattern?

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