Writing

Gary Brandner

Born 1930-05-31 · Saulte St. Marie - Michigan - USA

Gary Phil Brandner (May 31, 1930 – September 22, 2013) was an American horror fiction author best known for his werewolf-themed trilogy of novels, The Howling. The first book in the series was loosely adapted into a motion picture in 1981. Brandner's second and third Howling novels, published in 1979 and 1985 respectively, are not connected to the film series, although he did contribute to the screenplay for the second Howling film.

Acting credits

4.6

A two-part horror anthology, the first part about a serial killer who is executed for his string of murders, the second about a despondent actor who hangs himself and meets a clown on "the other side."

Satan's Storybook

1989

Behind the camera

Howling II: Stirba - Werewolf Bitch poster

4.9

When a young journalist dies in violent circumstances, her brother soon learns, by way of the mysterious Stefan Crosscoe, that his sister has succumbed to the werewolf curse.

Howling II: Stirba - Werewolf Bitch

1985

4.7

A father who experiments with his son's psychokinetic powers is unaware that these experiments have released a demon from hell which lives in his son's closet, preparing to take over the young boy's soul.

Cameron's Closet

1988

2.9

A number of vicious murders occur in a small California town after a motorcycle-riding stranger arrives. The gruesome slayings look disturbingly like the work of a werewolf. Meanwhile, in another nearby town, police are hot on the trail of a killer they believe is a werewolf.

Howling: New Moon Rising

1995

Voices From The Grave / All Hallows' Eve: The Dead Have Stories To Tell poster

4.7

The dead have stories to tell a horror fan seeking the obscure.

Voices From The Grave / All Hallows' Eve: The Dead Have Stories To Tell

2014