Knowing that movies get worse the further away from the first in the series, and taking degree of aweful that is H2 into consideration, I figured anything subsequent would be cataclysmically bad. ... and well, may be it is, or maybe not.
IV is essentially a remake of the first movie, going back to Gary Brandner's original novel as a source. Filmed in South Africa, pretending to be Callifornia, with a small town sheriff with a Southern twang and a town doctor with an odd combination of Down East and British so it's kind of low budget wacky.
A writer takes time away from Los Angeles, because she's having a nervous breakdown. She gets away from the city to a small town called Drago, where she hears howling but no one else seems to. It's not actually a nervous breakdown, it was visions. ... and the howling? Werewolves.
The actual Werewolves don't get much screen time, and it's more "suspense" than horror, but as a "paranoid city dweller in a scary rural environment story" it works pretty well.
(Additional points for having a theme song sung by Justin Hayward of the Moody Blues.)
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