It’s impossible to consider Joe Dante’s follow-up to Piranha without comparing it to An American Werewolf in London, the lycanthropic tragi-comedy that overshadowed The Howling on its 1981 release. Both include huge set pieces taking place against porn backdrops, and each involves an isolated and superstitious community thematically contrasted with the metropolitan sophistication of the protagonists’ home territory. There is also, this being the early 1980s, a fetishisation of the metamorphosis and its achievement via prosthetics.
Whereas John Landis’ film concentrates on the personal and medical effects of the transformation, Dante is more interested in the Freudian cod-psychology of the shapeshifters, throwing in a vast amount of metatextuality
from Horror and Sci Fi Magazines http://www.starburstmagazine.com/reviews/dvd-and-blu-ray-home-entertainment-reviews/19206-blu-ray-review-the-howling
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