Werewolf? Here, here wolf! - Page 2

Ok Smartguy, got any leads on were I can see this? I searched Netflix with no luck. I can't live without seeing bulletproof werewolves now.

Because it has come to this, as all werewolf threads do, I'll go with AWIL. Just a far superior movie. The transformation in Howling is cool, but besides that it isn't very memorable.

I like American Werewolf in Paris. Tom Everett falling in love with Julie Delpy is fun, the soundtrack isn't bad and it never gets boring. Yea, cgi wolves suck, but they sucked worse in The Day after Tomorrow and Van Helsing.

About AWIL and AWIP, I never really liked the idea of a wolfman seeing the ones he killed. Wolf is enough, no ghosts needed.

The original Wolfman? Just awesome.

It isn't on dvd. You can probably buy a VHS off of Amazon or something if you swing that way.

I used to catch it fairly often on SciFi way back when. Those were the days.

Aren't all werewolves bulletproof, providing the bullet is not made of silver?

Bulletproof? No. Essentially immune or unharmed by ordinary bullets? Yes.

Except....

As pointed out by Devin recently, this is utter Hollywood invention. Lore does not have werewolves being especially vulnerable to silver.

TV wise I think my favorite werewolf is in Being Human. George is a well written character and the scene where he narrates the transformation in the first season is brilliant.

Anybody else remember the TV show "Werewolf" back in the early days of Fox programming.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCq9nLsB2VI

Hokey as hell, but I have pretty fond memories of it. Sort of an AWIL meets the Hulk(TV).

PROJECT METALBEAST is awesome. When I have more time, I'll be back in this thread. Until then, I leave you with...



And some kickass Frazetta:

"Is Wolfman gonna hafta choke a bitch?"



"YES. Yes he is..."

I vaguely recall an episode of Tales from the Crypt where the vampire parents are gonna feast on the kid only to find out he's a werewolf. TFTC should really be on Netflix or hulu already.

Hey!!! I remember that!

And speaking of transformations, I have to admit that I like the concept of Van Helsing's change (although not the execution). In my mind, there's something fundamentally cool about the werewolf actually bursting through its human flesh. Trick 'r Treat did the same thing in a far more effective manner.

Oh, and here's the Wrightson illustration I was looking for yesterday:

I remember watching that! What a fun episode.

Anyone here who knows me knows Ginger Snaps is one of my favourite movies of all time, I still love the shit out of it after all these years. It has that mixture of dark comedy and horror and sympathetic characters you can really only find in An American Werewolf in London otherwise. I also really enjoy Ginger Snaps 2, it had its own offbeat weird thing going on and I loved Ghost and Burned Barbara and all the junkies in the hospital. The third one was really surprisingly bad and most of the time I try to forget it ever existed.

It's a shame there aren't more great werewolf movies out there, I have a theory that not a lot of decent filmmakers have ever attempted to tackle the genre because of the seemingly daunting transformation scene and all the bad cliches set up by werewolf movies of the past. However, The Wolfman looks amazing and I have high hopes that it's going to change that and get more people putting lycanthropes in their films.

Oh yeah, and Mattioli, that illustration is amazing! I had it as my desktop background for the longest time.

Ah, "The Secret", one of my all time fave TFTCs. Love that ending.

"I have a secret too... AND MINE'S BETTER THAN YOURS!"

Movie wise, I must mention the John Ryhs-Davies werewolf segment in the excellent Waxwork. Thankfully we are spared the Naughton style full on birthday suit transmogrification, but he does turn into a pretty badass looking creature (director Anthony Hickox would go on to make Full Eclipse, which started that whole werewolf cop movie bandwagon rolling)

and Re: Fox's Werewolf... are they ever going to sort out those damn licensing issues for the DVD?

Anyone familiar with Universal's SHE-WOLF OF LONDON television series. Seeing it at the store on DVD was the first I've heard of it, and that's saying something. It was 29.99 with $10 towards THE WOLFMAN in theaters, like all the re-released Wolfman DVDs out now.

They used to show She Wolf of London on the Sci Fi channel many years ago. I remember liking it well enough, but it has been a very long time since I saw the show, so take that for what you will.

I'm going to have to track down this silly-looking flick...

Agreed. Watched Naschy's Night Of The Werewolf a few months back and I really dug the atmosphere. My fave out of Naschy's (RIP) bunch.

And I actually like GINGER SNAPS 3 and FULL ECLIPSE, all said. BIG BAD WOLF was a guilty pleasure fo sho and featured Richard Tyson as a wise-cracking Freddy-type wolfman.

EDIT: An old thread that died on the vine: http://www.chud.com/forum/showthread.php?t=92826

They have to kill the Metalbeast with a silver bazooka rocket because the silver bullets won't go through his skin.

Has I WAS A TEENAGE WEREWOLF fallen that much out of favor? Not even one mention!

My favorite part about that one was Seth Green being terrorized by Landon-thrope in Stephen King's IT.

Some of my favorite comic book ads were werewolves (courtesy of Jack Davis IIRC)...

Like so!

I'll always be an AWiL guy over the Howling. The only Howling I ever really got around to liking somewhat was Part VI: The Freaks. Mostly because it had Bruce Payne as an evil vampire who owns a carnival. I can't in good conscience dislike that.

There's a pretty cool werewolf sequence in Hellboy Animated: Blood And Iron, but apologies to all the anime geeks whose balls are exploding because I just implied that American DTV is anime. Not so surprisingly, Hellboy doesn't truck with pussy little silver bullets and finds an appropriately bad ass way to off the beastie.

It having not reached DVD might have something to do with it. I had to track it down online. A very interesting flick, good use of metaphor, shitty depiction of psychiatry. It got me interested enough to track down the "I Was A Middle-Aged Werewolf" episode of Highway To Heaven on YouTube. Horribly shitty show, but they cast Michael Berryman as The Devil.

This was a fun little short I found on YouTube:
The Werewolf Solution.

Glad to hear Joe Johnston's flick is worthy of the Universal legacy.

I'm thinking you would like that one, DM. It's a fairly enjoyable bad movie with cheapo monster and transformation FX, wooden acting, and a Jesus hippie commune instead of gypsies. Watch out for George Gaynes (Lasard from the Police Academy movies) as a psychiatrist who conveniently also happens to be an expert in werewolf lore.

It would probably be quite fun to watch it as part of an all night werewolf movie marathon specifically focusing on 1970s cheese, along with The Beast Must Die, The Werewolf of Washington, Moon of the Wolf and Scream of the Wolf. Kind of see what things were like before the subgenre was rescued by the greatness of AWIL and Dante/Bottin/Donaggio/Picardo/Brooksbush.

This thread got me thinking about kiddie lit featuring werewolves...

Did anyone else read this classic?



and

I swear that I read one called "The Werewolf Wore Braces", but I'll be damned if I can find anything like that. Of course, that recollection could just be some fever dream created from that Cramps' song (I was a teenage werewolf/ Braces on my fangs).

I remember one about a ring that turned a kid into a werewolf that we read in elementary school along with Banicula.

Would that be this one?

Everytime the kid twisted the ring, it would turn him into a different beastie. He ends up twisting it one too many times and gets stuck as a monster. I really wanted that ring.

HAHA!! Awesome!! I remember the cover. It was one of those cases where they handed out copies to the whole class to take home.

Just to weigh in on the Werewolf-a-thon; i rewatched The Howling not long since. I had remembered it being great. It was not. I was just bored. Maybe tiredness was a factor, but there we go. I do like the ending mind.

The new Wolfman is pretty good though. Yeah, all the criticisms levelled about the 'missing'/lacking plotlines and dodgy CGI and such apply, but it has Hugo Weaving being awesome and is WAAAY gorier than i was expecting. I approve.

Clearly though, as with most others, AWIL is king. The only thing it is missing is a werewolf surfing on top of a van. I'm sure i've seen that elsewhere though...

I'm not sure how much I like Company of Wolves, I need to see it again. It didn't quite click for me but it's gorgeous to look at and covers most types of werewolf. I also love the werewolf section of Trick R Treat - surprised that hasn't been mentioned here yet.

Only seen Ginger Snaps once and I really want to revisit it, I was ill at the time and kept almost falling asleep which is a shitty way to watch any movie, but I remember it being very good.

You just need to enjoy the 'ebb and menstrual-flow' of it...it's a bit like an archaic 'Ginger Snaps'...except not.

I LOVED that movie as a kid. That "werewolf break" business was great.

The Howling has better photography (and an actual score), but AWIL is more fun to me. I left the theater crying when Meat Loaf Jack turned up in the hospital. It was my 11th birthday.

I weighed in on Werewolf of London and Wolf over in the Defense of Werewolves thread. Both have their merits.

Saw this in a discount bookstore. Its title makes no sense:



And don't forget the rich mythology of Fangface.

On a side note, iirc Bill Simmons has a funny bit in his recent book about how Teen Wolf, not Hoosiers, is the ultimate basketball movie.

I like Night of the Werewolf but just barely. It starts off strong with a scene somewhat reminiscent of Bava's Black Sunday and then just sort of sputters along after that.

I really like The Wolf Man (1941), but Werewolf of London (1935) is, from a character/scripting standpoint, superior. It deserves more love.

The Big Bad Wolf was kinda guilty pleasure to me. yeah the gore was there and the story was ok.

Can't forgot the Friday the 13th espisode where the kid gets a cursed video camera and all he wants to do is turn into a werewolf lol.

I didn't like Cursed that much, the werewolf was good concept but i didn't like the story.

The Beast of Bray Road was crappy

I meant to comment on that there, buy you are so right.
I found a kiddie record online of Fangs (to reminisce) that someone converted to mp3s. Had a hard time explaining to my daughter what was going on. Hilarious listening to someone "turn into a werewolf" with only audio. I have a few other Halloween/monster radio drama-ish audio files that attempt the same. Adorable. "Oh NO! The full moooooo-eeeaaaarrrgh!"


This thread is "Butch Patrick approved" (via his horror con booth)...

I thought that Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban actually had one of the more original, creepier werewolf designs in the last few years. Much better than Van Helsing or Underworld, that's for sure.

+1.

Too bad you could identify him as a lycanthrope from his driver's license.

Remus Lupin? And he's a werewolf you say? Shocking.

Might has well named him "Fangface McWerewolfenlycan".

I suspect my doctor, Dr. Acula, may be a vampire... and that guy Alucard, who called about the Van Helsing diary? He might be a vamp too. Course, I may just be profiling.

Well, in Rowling's defense, it is kid-lit. I probably would have felt like a master detective at the age of 10 for figuring it out. And then by my first year of Latin my Freshman year? How elementary...

Not mentioned yet is the best WW flick of the 1950s (not saying much!)- The Werewolf. Directed by Fred Sears of Earth Vs the Flying Saucers fame, and available as part of the Sam Katzman DVD collection. It's a twist on the standard Talbot shenanigans, with the lycanthropy coming from mad scientists instead of gypsies. Weird but good mix of monster movie, noir, and western, and features maybe the saddest cinematic werewolf ever- tragic and pathetic as a character, and a right goofy looking fucker to boot. Classic cheesy transformation too, lots of drool.

truth!

Found a great Henry Hull painting/cover:

I remember this TV series about a women who would turn into a werewolf and fight evil. i remember this one episode where these witches worked at a pizza place and when jerks/powerful men/ ect ect come in they would put special toppings on the pizza to change them. one person got changed into a potted plant. I also remember one got changed into this half man half rat deal. For the life of me I can't remember the show at all. I guess this was the final episode (i think). if anyone knows please please let me know.

She-Wolf of London*/Love & Curses

*not to be confused with the movie of the same name.