Quartile rating: 5.5/10 · 1 rating
When passengers on a train are attacked by a creature, they must band together in order to survive until morning.
Howl is a competent but formulaic British werewolf horror that struggles to distinguish itself in a crowded subgenre. The trapped-on-a-train premise offers some spatial tension, but the plot quickly devolves into predictable survival beats with little character development to invest in. The acting is serviceable but unremarkable, with a mostly unknown cast delivering genre-standard performances. Cinematography makes decent use of the claustrophobic train and dark forest setting, with the creature design being a relative highlight. Novelty is limited — the werewolf-on-a-train concept sounds fresh but the execution leans heavily on well-worn siege-horror tropes. The ending offers little resolution or surprise, wrapping up in a fairly unsatisfying manner consistent with the film's middling overall impact.