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Fangoria Reports on Underworld Prequel

Posted by Andrew ">Andrew at 9:31 am on April 12, 2008

Fangoria has a report about Rise of the Lycans, the latest installment in the Underworld film franchise.

Producer Richard Wright says that despite a budget lower than those of its predecessors, Rise of the Lycans will be “even more ambitious than the second,” and Tatopoulos Studios technician Guy Himber adds, “We’re not as makeup-heavy on this show as on the previous ones. It’s really all about the werewolves.”

Rise of the Lycans finished shooting in March and is currently in post-production. A release date has not been announced. Take your time with those werewolf effects, guys.

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Sonic Unleashed: Teaser Trailer

Posted by Andrew ">Andrew at 3:02 pm on April 8, 2008

Gametrailers.com has just posted a teaser trailer for Sonic Unleashed. I think we can consider the werewolf rumours confirmed.

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Sharp Teeth – A Werewolf Novel in Verse Form

Posted by Andrew ">Andrew at 1:57 pm on

Author Toby Barlow is creating quite a stir with his first novel, a werewolf story called Sharp Teeth. Written as a way to pass the time during a year-long stay in a Chicago hotel, Sharp Teeth combines free verse imagery with humour, sorrow and violence in what critics are calling a “gut-wrenching, sexy debut, a horror thriller in verse.” (Publishers Weekly)

Here’s an excerpt to give you an idea of what people are talking about:

Some of us have problems.
They still talk about Bone and what the grease does to him.
He can’t go into fried chicken places
the smell, the scent, turns his blood right away.
They say he took out a Popeye’s once.
It made the news, unsolved.
It took him an hour.
He walked in, just to pick up a bucket.
The smell hit him, the change happened,
and the whole place had to go.
Chicken, customers, biscuits, and gravy.

Needless to say, Sharp Teeth is now at the top of my “books to buy” list. Check out the official web site at sharpteeththebook.com.

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The Wolf Man: Exterior Set Photos

Posted by Andrew ">Andrew at 8:59 am on April 7, 2008

/Film reader Lee C has submitted a handful of photos from the set of The Wolf Man. Most of the photos are of signage and building exteriors (no effects shots here, sadly), but they illuminate the careful attention the filmmakers are paying to the set design.

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Ben Templesmith to Create Comic Series About Werewolves

Posted by Andrew ">Andrew at 12:00 am on April 6, 2008

IESB.net and the Horror Fiction News Network are both reporting that Australian artist Ben Templesmith has signed an exclusive deal with IDW Publishing, and among his forthcoming projects is Welcome to Hoxford, a new comic book series about werewolves.

From Horror Fiction News Network:

Welcome to Hoxford is a horrific new series that features an unique and terrifying take on werewolves. In the debut issue, Raymond Delgado is the newest inmate at the Hoxford Correctional Facility and Mental Institution. He’s has no hope of release, parole, rehabilitation, or decent conversation. On a good day, he’ll tell you he’s Zeus and only bite your arm off—literally. On a bad day, you won’t have time to scream to the prison guard for help.

Templesmith is the creator of 30 Days of Night, another IDW title which was recently adapted into a successful film.

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Sonic Unleashed Officially Announced – with Werewolf Sonic?

Posted by Andrew ">Andrew at 8:07 pm on April 3, 2008

A week or two after screenshots of the forthcoming Sonic the Hedgehog game were leaked to the web, Sega finally quit issuing cease-and-desist orders and announced that they are indeed making a new Sonic game called Sonic Unleashed, due out for the Xbox 360, PS3 and Wii before Christmas 2008.

So how is this werewolf-related? Well, apparently the levels will have Day and Night modes. The Day modes will feature the high-speed action synonymous with Sonic games. The Night modes will feature…

Werewolf Sonic

Werewolf Sonic. Does it make sense? No. Is it awesome? Heck yes.

More concrete details are expected in May. In the meantime, check out this screenshot gallery at Eurogamer. No werewolf pictures, but it’s a great-looking game.

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19th Century Lycanthrope Research Case

Posted by Andrew ">Andrew at 3:28 pm on

This isn’t exactly news, considering it’s from last year, but it’s worth sharing because it’s quite impressive, and because this has been a slow week for news.

AlexCF, self-described “retrofuture cryptozoological assemblage artist”, created a Victorian-era werewolf research case as an art piece. The attention to detail is simply astounding– from the hand-written letters and documents that form the back story to the fur, tissue and fang samples and preserved werewolf fetus, it’s clear that a lot of effort went into this.

A lucky private collector managed to snag this creation when AlexCF auctioned it on Ebay last year.