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This month’s Full Moon Feature is brought to you by the letter H, as in Hammer House of Horror, a television anthology series that ran for 13 episodes in 1980. Arriving midway through its run, Children of the Full Moon has a bit of a folk horror feel, somewhat akin to 1970’s Robin Redbreast. In […]

The one Blue Moon of 2026 is upon us, so to celebrate the second full moon of May, I’ve chosen Paul Naschy’s second werewolf movie of 1972. (The first, The Fury of the Wolf Man, was put out on Blu-ray by Scorpion Releasing in 2020, but I didn’t bother picking it up because frankly, it’s […]

As this year marks the 45th anniversary of Joe Dante’s The Howling and John Landis’s An American Werewolf in London (among others), I was invited to appear on the Horror 101 with Dr. AC podcast to discuss both of them. (Here’s the link to the episode.) Doing my due diligence, I gave The Howling a […]

Through a quirk of timing and the 25th anniversary of its Japanese release (on April 21, 2001), I am covering Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust on April Fools’ Day, which coincides with this year’s Pink Moon. But fear not, fellow lycanthrope fans. I have no intention of joking about abandoning werewolf movies and switching over to […]

While Paul Naschy had introduced his signature werewolf character Waldemar Daninsky in 1968’s La marca del Hombre Lobo — inexplicably released in the US as Frankenstein’s Bloody Terror — and included him in the monster menagerie Los monstruous del terror a.k.a. Assignment Terror in 1970, he really got into the lycanthrope groove with 1971’s La […]

Three years before famed Mexican wrestlers Santo and Blue Demon tangled with Dracula and the Wolf Man, they teamed up to fight a whole array of supernatural creatures. In 1970’s Santo el enmascarado de plata y Blue Demon contra los monstruos, they not only have to contend with El Vampiro (a generic one) and El […]

Considering Charles Band named his production company Full Moon, it’s curious that he has largely shied away from making werewolf movies. One of the few exceptions (along with 1990’s Meridian, which he directed himself) is 1998’s Werewolf Reborn!, produced as part of Full Moon’s abortive “Filmonsters!” series. Slated to appear alongside stories about Dracula and […]

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 […]