Web Series “Wolfpack of Reseda”: Drink some True Blood while driving your Kia to your job at Initech

2012-03-17

According to the end of the first episode of  Wolfpack of Reseda, when you’re infected with lycanthropy you immediately receive enormous feathery sideburns and a brand new Kia Soul. The bemused equanimity with which protagonist Ben March accepts these seemingly arbitrary gifts sealed the deal: as soon as I’m done writing this post, I’m moving on to episode two. Reseda is an eight-episode web series produced by Fox Digital Entertainment (and sponsored rather conspicuously by Kia). New episodes debut weekly on Myspace. They’re…
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Simon Beaufoy still adapting “very mad, really fabulous” epic werewolf poem Sharp Teeth

2012-03-14

io9 has a few tidbits from screenwriter Simon Beaufoy (Slumdog Millionaire, 127 Hours) regarding his in-the-works film adaptation of Sharp Teeth. As reported in February, Beaufoy is preparing a screenplay version of Toby Barlow’s novel-length poem for his perennial collaborator, director Danny Boyle (Trainspotting, Sunshine, Slumd– oh here). From the interview: io9: Are you able to enjoy a book, when you’re reading a book? Or do you see a screenplay straightaway? Simon Beaufoy: It’s quite difficult to read a book now, I took to reading…
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Full Moon Features: The Underworld series, Part One

2012-03-07

He’s a life-saving surgeon, she’s a death-dealing vampire — can the two of them get along? That’s the big question posed by 2003′s Underworld. (Actually, that’s not strictly true. The real question the filmmakers probably posed was “Hey, wouldn’t it be really cool if we made a movie where vampires and werewolves fought each other with guns while there was a Romeo and Juliet thing going on?”) I gave Underworld a wide berth when it was first released nearly a…
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Full Moon Features: Joe Johnston’s The Wolfman, two years later

2012-02-07

It’s tantalizing to think about The Wolfman that might have been. Mark Romanek’s music videos are so distinctive that it’s pretty much a guarantee that his treatment of the material would have been, too. Just take a gander at “Closer” or “The Perfect Drug” by Nine Inch Nails, or Johnny Cash’s “Hurt” or even Michael & Janet Jackson’s “Scream” and you’ll see what I mean. The man knows his way around striking — and frequently disturbing — imagery. Once slated…
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So, this is happening: “FDR American Badass” trailer – Franklin Roosevelt kicking werewolf ass

2012-01-18

Did you watch it? Did you watch that trailer all the way through? Did you find anything in it that wasn’t Amazing? Hilarious? So dumb it was great? Here’s a snippet from the Huffington Post writeup: The new film from director Garrett Brawith stars Barry Bostwick as a raunchy version of the four-term president who contracted polio from a bite from a Nazi werewolf. As it turns out, Hitler and Mussolini are werewolves, too, which sets Roosevelt and his allies on…
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Has fan-driven werewolf film “Freeborn” been resurrected?

2012-01-16

It’s been dormant for years, but it looks like Anthony Brownrigg‘s fan-driven werewolf film Freeborn is getting back on track. A video announcing the project’s resurrection has surfaced, with what looks like a little bit of new footage. It makes sense that a film with a fan-influenced script would solicit funding from those same fans. There’s no specific IndieGoGo link for the project yet, but the crowdsource-funding site’s prominent presence in the video and the mention of a February 1st “launch”…
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Has anyone seen Italian werewolf film “Versipellis”?

2012-01-13

See if you can guess what Versipellis is about from the trailer alone. I see some pained expressions, a giant placenta (?), some nicely-done transformation shots involving lots of teeth, a detective who seems to spend a lot of time wandering around on his own or writhing at his desk, and a few glimpses of a classic werewolf. Okay, now here’s the IMDB synopsis, provided by “Anonymous”: Giulio and Francesco Ferretti are two young twins, with a harsh childhood. They lived…
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“The Devil Inside” team’s next project: faux found footage werewolf film

2012-01-12

Bloody Disgusting has turned up some exclusive news on the next project to be undertaken by the creative team behind recent critical flop / box office hit The Devil Inside. Director William Brent Bell and writer / producer Matthew Peterman have collaborated on the script for an as-of-yet unnamed werewolf film, also to be assembled from “found footage” like Devil. According to Bloody Disgusting, the film will be about someone who turns into a werewolf while being held in police custody. Some…
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Exclusive behind-the-scenes photos & video of werewolf suit & effects by Adrien Morot

2012-01-09

The folks at at Adrien Morot Special Makeup Effects Studio in Montreal are responsible for some amazing creations, from creature effects and animatronics to unsettlingly life-like dummies. Adrien was even nominated for a 2010 Academy Award for his incredible age makeup in Barney’s Version (although that was the year The Wolfman won, which makes me feel vaguely guilty for some reason). A while back Adrien emailed me with some questions and comments about Werewolf News, which I was happy to answer, but he made one fatal mistake:…
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Full Moon Features: The “Rebirth” of The Howling series

2012-01-08

After Howling: New Moon Rising limped into video stores in 1995, the long-running series was finally put out of its — and our — misery. Seven films in, any connection with Gary Brandner’s original novels had long since been severed and it couldn’t be denied that the bad films in the franchise easily outstripped the good ones. Short of sending its werewolves into space (an idea that I’ve seen in comic form, but never on the silver screen), everything that…
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