 The original HBO/Thorn tape release is dark and unwatchable, as well as cut.  The cable version is bright and clear and features European folk music over  the formerly silent end credits, but cut. The Republic/Lumiere tape release  is bright and clear, (almost too bright in some suspense scenes), and was the  longest version in existence until the release of the MGM DVD, which is not  only uncut and in widescreen, but is bright, clear, and watchable. The  Republic/Lumiere tape bears the retitling "Howling II 