History Film / Howl2015

* BlackScreenOfDeath: A one-sided-fight variation. [[spoiler:The movie ends with a shot on Adrian's OhCrap look as he's surrounded by werewolves, then it cuts to black and we hear Adrian being torn apart before the credits play]].

* FinalGirl: [[spoiler:Ellen]] is the only character to make it out alive.

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Ellen makes it out of the woods to safety in Eastborough, but it doesn't mean much when she's the only survivor and traumatized from her experience. Everyone else from the train ({{jerkass}} Adrian included) is either killed, transformed, or transformed then killed]].

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Ellen makes it out of the woods to safety in Eastborough, but everyone else from the train ({{jerkass}} Adrian included) is either dead or transformed into werewolves]].

* CannotKillTheirLovedOnes: Ged can't kill his wife [[ZombieInfectee Jenny]] to save his own life, or even allow his fellow survivors on the train to kill her, punching Adrian when the latter nearly kills her for him and going into a HeroicBSOD when she fully turns.

* CannotKillTheirLovedOnes: Ged can't kill his wife [[ZombieInfectee Jenny]] to save his own life, or even allow his fellow survivors on the train to kill her, going into a HeroicBSOD when she becomes a werewolf and punching Adrian when the latter nearly kills her for him.

* ButForMeItWasTuesday: Adrian tried to seduce Jenny during a job interview in the past. She remembers him, but when she brings it up he admits he doesn't remember her.

* CannotKillTheirLovedOnes: Ged can't killed his wife [[ZombieInfectee Jenny]] to save his own life, or even allow his fellow survivors on the train to kill her, going into a HeroicBSOD when she becomes a werewolf and punching Adrian when the latter nearly kills her for him.

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Nina is pulled through a window by Scar and seemingly torn apart and killed on the roof of the train outside. However, when Billy and Matthew attempt to repair the train's fuel lines outside, [[spoiler:Matthew hears Nina's voice crying out in the woods and wanders off to investigate. He finds her half-eaten still alive body in a tree being devoured by the Bald werewolf]].
** [[spoiler:Might technically be averted, as Nina's eyes are golden like the werewolves', hinting she was metamorphosing into a werewolf whilst they were eating her alive]].

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: {{Implied}} with Adrian. When Kate comments she hopes he hasn't got any kids to screw up, it wipes his smug smile completley off his face for but a moment, implying he genuinely cares what his kids think of him.

* HopeSpot: The heroes manage to kill Scar and are seemingly safe...only for his pack to show up.

* ItCanThink: The werewolves seem to have aspects of human-like intelligence still in them. Notably, Scar, the lead werewolf, makes sure to sabotage the train's radio from the outside after his first attack on the passengers. They also seem to take some form of pleasure in hunting the passengers, as Scar deliberately scrapes his claws along the side of the exterior of the train carriage for no other reason than to intimidate and frighten the passengers. [[spoiler: When Jenny turns, she tears out her husband's throat and then leers menacingly over Adrian with a smile on her fanged face. The werewolves at the end of the film also seem to consciously make a choice to turn Joe into a werewolf, rather than tear him apart and eat him]].

* SocialDarwinist: Adrian reveals that "survival of the fittest" (and "the most willing to run away") is his overall attitude. As the crisis continues, he expresses clear contempt towards Ged and Jenny for being elderly.

* ExtremeDoormat: Joe starts the movie as a meek, down-on-his-luck trainline employee who is easily browbeaten and won't stand up for himself. He ends the movie challenging a giant werewolf to a one-on-one duel, screaming like a berserker.

* ExtremeDoormat: Joe is this at the start of the film. He goes through TookALevelInBadass over the film.

* NiceGuy: Matthew seems to be about the only genuinely decent passenger toward Joe with no disgusting habits before the crisis hits.

* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler: After taking several ax strikes to the chest, Scar turns out to have just enough life in him to rise back up and give one final howl, alerting the rest of the pack to the train's location. Joe smashes his face to a bloody pulp with a fire extinguisher to put him down for good]].

* OhCrap: There's quite a few. Namely there's Paul realizing he's [[spoiler:trapped in a toilet compartment with the werewolf breaking in through the roof]], there's ''especially'' the look on Kate's face when the survivors realize there is indeed more than one werewolf, and there's Joe and Ellen's faces when they realize [[spoiler:Adrian has gotten Joe's keys and is about to lock them on the train with the werewolves]].

* {{Sadist}}: The Scar werewolf in particular seems to be having a lot of fun [[ItCanThink scaring and picking off the passengers one at a time]]. In fact, it's heavily implied the werewolves are hunting more for sport than for food; based on them leaving Tony's body half-eaten, discarding the half-eaten [[spoiler:Nina]] the moment they see fresh meat enter their territory, and the werewolf who kills [[spoiler:Kate]] quickly catching up with the rest of the pack moments later.

* StrongAsTheyNeedToBe: A particularly glaring example with the train's doors. In the first half of the film, the characters escape the Scar werewolf's first attack by fleeing back onto the train and sealing the doors, and Scar's later banging on the door suggests he couldn't force the locked doors open. [[spoiler:Later in the film, the other werewolves (two of whom are smaller and scrawnier than the alphas) can force the doors open to get inside no problem, including when the train's power is restored and it's moving. Really, the crew should've probably just filmed the other werewolves after Scar shattering windows instead of opening doors when they grab Kate and get aboard the train]].

** When the Scar werewolf breaks into the passengers' carriage, it's a terrifying and menacing moment. But [[spoiler:whilst he easily bats away any one passenger trying to injure him, once all of them who number more than half-a-dozen gang up on the single giant werewolf and work together trying to stab and bludgeon him to death, they successfully overwhelm him]].

** For all his talk about being a pragmatic survivor, DirtyCoward Adrian really has shades of this the moment he gets panicked. When Scar gets on the train, he decides breaking open the windows and making a run into the dark woods is somehow wiser than trying to keep the werewolf back, and he [[spoiler:tries to feed Joe and Ellen to the werewolves when the cast's numbers are whittled down so he can escape through the woods himself -- this last one renders him completely without anyone else to stick by him and gets him killed]].
** When Matthew hears a voice weakly calling from in the dark woods (the voice of someone who [[spoiler:was previously dragged away and ripped open by one of the werewolves no less]]), he leaves the train's side looking for the source. [[spoiler:He dies]].

* WasOnceAMan: After Scar breaks in and the group kills him in self-defence, they look over his body. After coming to terms with Matthew's statement that what they are looking at, is the body of a werewolf, they notice that he is still wearing a ring, concluding he used to be an ordinary person.

* ActorAllusion: Sean Pertwee was the sergeant in ''Film/DogSoldiers'', another English werewolf movie. Ironically, the werewolves in that movie share a few superficial similarities to the ones here.

''Howl'' is a 2015 horror film starring Ed Speleers. The film was released on October 16.

* AlphaAndBetaWolves: The werewolf pack seems to operate this way. Scar and Blonde are a male and female respectively who are more physically imposing than the other werewolves, and Bald and Hunchback display wolf-like submissiveness to Blonde.

* BigBadDuumvirate: Scar and Blonde, the two Alpha Werewolves. Unusual example in that Blonde only shows up once her mate is killed.
* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:Billy attacking the werewolves with {{Molotov Cocktail}}s]].
* BigNo: Joe when [[spoiler:the train shuts down again before it's clear of the werewolf-inhabited forest]].

* HateSink: As the film progresses, Adrian increasingly earns the characters' and the viewers' hatred -- first due to the reveal of his implied gigolo work alongside his married life and his [[SocialDarwinist "survival of the fittest" urging to Joe]] regarding the other passengers, his expressed contempt for Ged based on the latter's old age, and his attempt to [[spoiler:kill the bitten Jenny against everyone else's wishes, which gets him tied up due to the danger he poses. Then there's his less-than-grateful response to Joe saving his worthless ass from a werewolf]].

* FinalGirl: [[Spoiler:Ellen]] is the only character to make it out alive.

* FinalGirl: [[Spoiler: Ellen]] is the only character to make it out alive.

* SlasherSmile: [[spoiler:When Jenny turns, she has a permanent, razor-toothed GlasgowGrin]].