Howling VI: The Freaks is a 1991 British direct-to-video horror directed by Hope Perello, from the screenplay by Kevin Rock, starring Brendan Hughes, Bruce Payne, Michele Matheson, Sean Gregory Sullivan, (a.k.a. Sean Sullivan) and Carol Lynley. "The Freaks" is the sixth entry in the series of seven standalone films with a loose continuity. Like most of the other films, the film is loosely based on The Howling series of novels by Gary Brandner; however, minor elements from the third novel, The Howling III: Echoes, are in the film, which includes the solitary drifter who is cursed as a sympathetic werewolf and later recruited by a supernatural being, as well as werewolves being used in carnival freak shows. Plot A young girl runs through the woods being chased by a creature which corners and kills her. Later, a young drifter named Ian Richards goes to the small desert town of Canton Bluff, where he befriends the local pastor Dewey and gets a job repairing the church. Ian also befriends Dewey's daughter, Elizabeth, and there is a mutual attraction. A traveling circus comes to town, and Ian takes Elizabeth there on a date, where R.B. Harker, the owner, shows them his freakshow featuring Bellamey, Harker's assistant who bites the heads off live chickens, Toones, a man with dwarfism and a third arm, Toones's lover Carl/Carlotta, a transsexual lounge singer and Winston, a young man with Ichthyosis who goes by the stage name of 'alligator boy'. That night, the president of the local bank, Anna Eddington, goes missing after being alone with Harker. Later, Ian attempts to skip town before the full moon, as he is secretly a werewolf. He fails and transforms, with Bellamey seeing this and telling Harker. Harker captures Ian, and showing Dewey and Elizabeth Ian's curse by forcing him to transform with a crystal talisman and reciting an ancient spell. Ian wakes the next day to find himself caged at the circus. Harker appears and tells Ian that he had killed Elizabeth as a werewolf, leaving Ian distraught. In reality, this was a lie Harker told to convince him to stay, as he had kidnapped some of his other freaks, like Winston. Winston and Ian become friends and Winston asks Ian to make him a werewolf too as he wants to be different because of his malformed skin. Ian refuses and encourages Winston to leave the circus as there