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According to its opening title screen, 1985’s Vampire Hunter D “takes place in the distant future where mutants and demons slither through a world of darkness.” It is a time ruled over by the Nobility, a race of vampires descended from Dracula himself, though he is never named outright. (Most often he is referred to […]

This month’s Full Moon Feature is one I’m not going to dwell too long on because the wolfman content is minimal — and ultimately toothless. A product of the post-Roger Corman New World Pictures, 1985’s Transylvania 6-5000 is of a piece with the company’s previous PG-rated horror comedies The Private Eyes (1980) and Saturday the […]

When I started this column 14 years ago, I was admittedly a little cavalier when it came to how I went about it. True, most months I stuck to one film, but sometimes I wrote about three or four at once, grouping them thematically — like the time I wrote about the ’80s werewolf comedy […]

Jean Cocteau’s La Belle et la Bête was not the first screen adaptation of Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont’s story — there are at least two from the silent era that are wholly or partially lost — but the 1946 film set the standard for most that came after. These include Disney’s animated feature and its […]

This month’s Full Moon Feature again comes courtesy of Rifftrax, which decided one half-assed Rob Roy werewolf movie wasn’t enough for them, which I suppose is the same reasoning Roy had for following 2006’s Lycan Colony with the search-engine-challenging American Werewolf last year. Now, I understand why Roy would hold An American Werewolf in London […]

For this month’s Full Moon Feature, I’m heading to Brazil for the 2015 horror anthology As Fábulas Negras, which translates to Dark Fables or The Black Fables (the title it appears under on Tubi). The work of four directors who tackled different facets of Brazilian folklore, its most high-profile participant is José Mojica Marins, creator […]

When one reaches a movie-watching milestone, one hopes the movie in question will be worthy of being memorialized in such a fashion. Well, I just watched my 200th werewolf movie and it was 2006’s no-budget shot-on-video shitfest Lycan Colony, so as Hans Landa would say, that’s a Bingo! The work of single-minded multi-hyphenate Rob Roy […]

As we look forward to Valentine’s Day this weekend (or Horny Werewolf Day for those of us who prefer to celebrate Lupercalia), I am reminded that Joe Johnston’s The Wolfman was released on this day (in France, Belgium, Sweden, and the French-speaking region of Switzerland) in 2010. Consequently, I find myself again questioning the wisdom […]

When Something Weird Video released House on Bare Mountain on DVD in 2001 as part of a “Monster Nudie Double Feature” with 1964’s Kiss Me Quick! (which features Frankenstein’s Monster, Dracula, and the Mummy), it came with the following warning: “This program contains nudity and really bad jokes.” (Also included: an archival short subject entitled […]

There’s a moment partway through Werewolves where protagonist Dr. Wesley Marshall (Frank Grillo), a former Marine and current molecular biologist working on a cure for the condition that turns every human on the planet into a werewolf if they’re exposed to moonlight during a supermoon, is racing to his sister-in-law’s and crashes his car into […]