The werewolf film is a strange flower, with roots that branch deep into our prehistory, into pagan soil. ![]() Each uses traditional tropes like silver, pentagrams, and the moon, but both introduce original elements like American Werewolf’s rotting specters which haunt the wolf, or Howling’s colony of lycanthropes who can change at will. A comparison of the two films illustrates the flexibility of the Werewolf genre. Both movies also feature set-piece, show-stopping transformations, particularly Rick Baker’s makeup in American Werewolf. The Howling, though darker, still plays for laughs in many scenes-not surprising since it comes from Dante, who also gave us Gremlins a few years later. Landis, who directed Animal House, Trading Places and The Three Amigos, actually crafted American Werewolf as a horror-comedy. Both pictures are helmed by fantastic directors who know how to use humor in the right doses to accentuate the horror. Both sit atop any list of essential werewolf films, trading for the top spot dependent on the lister’s taste like Citizen Kane and The Godfather on mainstream lists. It saw the release of both John Landis’ An American Werewolf in London and Joe Dante’s The Howling. The year 1981 was a special one for werewolf movies. May become a wolf when the wolfsbane blooms, The best films do both and the failures do neither, although some do neither with enough character and spirit that all is forgiven, like Howling II: Your Sister is a Werewolf (1985). On the other end are superbly acted and written films with the most basic makeup poorly applied, like the Mike Nichols film Wolf (1994). The result is sometimes poor films in all respects but with wonderfully realized monsters, for example, the werewolf segment of Waxwork (1988). The viewer often has the impression that, especially for the lower budget pictures, the choice had to be made between special effects on the one hand and the acting, writing and set design on the other. Beyond ranking and grading the films themselves, they can be organized by the success or failure of the “turning.” Often the culprit is that centerpiece of every werewolf movie: the transformation. ![]() And while the werewolf has fewer successful adaptations than the vampire, it has far more than its share of failures and strange interpretations. As with the vampire mythos, the werewolf has been reimagined multiple times for every generation since the advent of film itself. I’ll assume that someone picking up this book wants some guidance, a Virgil into a wolfish underworld. The forest is deep, full of lurking dangers and traps, and only the brave few can make their way through it without falling prey to the beast. It’s an appropriate image for someone making their way into the Lost Forest of the werewolf genre. In the classic cinematic incarnation of the werewolf myth, Universal Pictures’ The Wolf Man (1941), Larry Talbot, the conflicted and remorseful werewolf of the title, stalks his victim from tree to tree in a foggy, moonlit night. Where Shall I begin my tale? This one has neither beginning nor end, but only a perpetual unfolding, a multi-petaled blossom of strange botany. It's a very interesting dynamic.Introduction: Pale Moon Rising I think he is trying to be a real good father, but it's just not easy because of the nature of this family. "He raised these two kids on his own, by himself. Like Sarah was saying, as you go with the episodes, you can understand why he is really deep into that conflict," Santoro said. "I cannot talk more about this, which would be a spoiler. In an interview with CBR, Santoro said his character was "constantly in conflict with the responsibilities of fatherhood and also morality" when raising two werewolf teenagers. Wolf Pack also stars Sarah Michelle Gellar ( Buffy the Vampire Slayer) as Kristin Ramsey, Armani Jackson as Everett, and Bella Shepard as Blake. The series follows "a group of teenagers whose lives are forever changed when a California wildfire awakens a terrifying supernatural creature." Davis, who also created MTV's Teen Wolf, is attached to write and executive produce Wolf Pack, which is based on the book series of the same name by Edo van Belkom. ![]() Created by Jeff Davis, Wolf Pack premiered on Paramount+ on Jan.
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