Combine Twilight, The Howling, and a lead who looks like Daniel Radcliffe, and you've got The Howling Reborn. High school loser Will pines for popular girl Eliana, who is dating cool kid Roland. Roland doesn't like Will looking at his girl, so he beats Will up and threatens worse if Will's attention continues.Eliana becomes interested in Will due to his creepy semi-stalker obsession with her and invites him to a party. While there, he gets drugged and starts to feel as if he is being chased by a growling creature which he fears is a werewolf.
After the party, Roland tracks down Will to administer another beating. But Will's tired of being pushed around and finds he has some sort of superhuman strength. After Roland is beaten up and left bleeding, he pulls a gun and chases Will, only to be pushed to his death. Will starts wondering he if is a werewolf.
There's lots of teen angst leading up to graduation. Then on graduation night, (yes the class is graduating at night), Will's mother - who he'd been told died when he was born - shows up. As his mother tries to indoctrinate Will into her new life, the school becomes a blood bath while the graduation ceremony takes place outside.
There is no tie in to previous Howling movies. It's purpose appears to be to revitalize the franchise by giving the werewolf story a Twilight spin. It's not so much a horror movie as a teen movie. There are voice overs by Will with super deep comments that teens will identify with, but adults will find trite.
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