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| “ | For it is written: the inhabitants of the Earth have been made drunk with her blood. And I saw her sent upon a hairy beast and she held forth a golden chalice full of the filthiness of fornications. And upon her forehead was written: "Behold I am the great mother of harlots and all abominations of the Earth." | „ |
| ~ Stefan Crosscoe tells the legend about Stirba, equating her to the Whore of Babylon from the Bible. |
Stirba is the main antagonist of the 1985 horror movie Howling II: Your Sister Is A Werewolf.
She was played by Sybil Danning when young and Valérie Kaplanová when old.
Biography[]
Stirba was an immortal 10,000 year old werewolf queen. She was the original werewolf and the mother of all werewolves on Earth. She ruled over a werewolf coven inside of a castle keep in the mountains of Transylvania. There, she conducted various occult rituals which involved blood sacrifices and orgies. After being alive for so so many millennia, Stirba was aging and needed the "blood of the lamb" in order to maintain her youth and beauty. Her greatest nemesis was the werewolf hunter Stefan Crosscoe, whom she referred to as her "brother" and her "beloved".
In 1981, Ben White attends the funeral of his sister, journalist Karen White, the heroine of the previous film. Ben meets both Jenny Templeton, one of Karen's colleagues, and Stefan, who tells him Karen was a werewolf. Providing videotaped evidence of the transformation and turning up to destroy Karen as her undead body rises from the grave, Crosscoe convinces Ben and Jenny to accompany him to Transylvania to battle Stirba. Ben dons a Canadian tuxedo to prepare for the battle. Along the way, the trio encounter Mariana, another lusty werewolf siren, and her minion Erle.
Stefan knew that silver would not be enough to kill any werewolf from Stirba's coven. To destroy them once and for all, he required weapons made of titanium. Arriving in the Balkans, Ben and company wander through an ethnic folk festival, unaware that Stirba is off in her nearby castle already plotting their downfall. When Stefan and his colleagues came to Transylvania to hunt Stirba down, she used the mystic powers available to her to confound their efforts.
At Stirba's castle, both sides launch an assault that involves disguised dwarves, mutilated priests, supernatural parasites, and surprise revelations. Stirba used a siren-like howling call to disrupt the equilibrium of a dwarf hunter named Vasile. The power of her voice was so potent that it literally made Vasile's eyes explode out of his head. Stirba made the gargoyle headpiece on her mystic staff come to life and attack him, ultimately killing him.
Stefan confronts Stirba for a final showdown inside her throne room. Stirba casts this hypnotizing, suicidal spell over him, but he managed to get in close enough to stab Stirba through the heart with a titanium dagger. Stirba's magic energy exploded out of her and both Stefan and she burst into flames, killing them both.
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Trivia[]
- Stirba can be viewed as the main antagonist of the entire Howling franchise because she was the mother of all werewolves on Earth. This would make her the overarching main antagonist of all the other films in the franchise.
- When Christopher Lee was cast for Gremlins 2: The New Batch, he apologized to Joe Dante who was the director for the first film, for being in Howling 2: Your Sister Is A Werewolf. The only reason he accepted the role was because he had never been in a werewolf movie until then.
- Sybil Danning originally never wanted to do a topless scene in the movie but compromised to have only one. However, after the scene was shot, the scene was repeated in a music video no less than seventeen times and she wasn't told about it.
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