Either way there were around 30 Werewolf movies released in the 80's and a good number of them were horrid. So yeah Silver bullet looked good in comparison to teen wolf, Full moon high, monster Dog, lone wolf, the midnight hour, etc etc
The Howling was unintentionally comical and had lots of titties and AT THE TIME good transformation effects. But I didn't particularly enjoy it other than for the titties and it doesn't stand the test of time like "the thing" did. Silver Bullet was superior. The howling was certainly more coherent than the rest of the series tho. Howling 2 was hilarious and intentionally bad. 3 was hideous and one of the worst movies ever. 4 was a remake of 1. 5 was a Clue movie in an ancient castle with werewolves. 6 was bad. new moon rising IS the worst movie I have ever seen, not just werewolf movie, worst movie period. New Moon rising makes hellraiser 7 look like saving private Ryan.