Tales of the Wolfman creators David Gruba and Rene Castellano have just launched a Kickstarter campaign for a 48-page, multi-artist Tales of the Wolfman anthology. (more…)
Author: Angela Quinton
Angela Quinton is a writer, designer and web developer from Canada. She's also a colossal werewolf nerd who wrote her first werewolf story on her mom's typewriter at age 11. When not writing code or geeking out over werewolf stuff, Angela runs trails, spots trains, and throws rocks at the Pacific Ocean. She lives near Vancouver, Canada, with their lovely and tolerant wife, three feline malcontents and an increasingly terrible dachshund.
Get a little WolfCop in your life / in your home / on your body
Every time the creators and filmmakers behind WolfCop come up with something new, I holler like a maniac and run in an excited circle. Friends, I’ve been hollering and circling all morning. Yesterday they launched a $10,000 Indiegogo campaign to “take WolfCop beyond the big screen”, and its centrepiece is a little WolfCop to call your own. (more…)
A “Curse” worth having
The dangers of a long journey home from a distant land can cast a haze on the memories of the adventure as a whole, unless the traveller returns with some bauble or token to commemorate the experience. That is why I drove home from Emerald City Comic Con – the gruelling two hours between Seattle and Vancouver just straight up riven with gentle rain and outlet stores – with three issues of Curse clutched to my chest. It was important… that I remember. (more…)
Help “House of Monsters” cross the finish line
The Kickstarter campaign for stop-motion series House of Monsters is currently eight days out from finishing, and while it looks like it’s building some momentum, it’s gonna need a little juice from monster fans to go all the way. Take a look at the campaign page or my previous HoM post for a rundown on why this project is worth your contribution (short version: talented and experienced people building and animating incredibly detailed monster puppets, including an excellent werewolf), or check out this higher-level backer reward: get turned into a monster puppet and have a role in the show! (more…)
Laura Imbruglia & Chelsea Wolfe music videos
Do you like music? I like music, and I like music videos that are trippy or funny, too. I have one of each for you on this Tuesday evening. (more…)
Nicholas Pekearo’s “The Wolfman” novel gets a film deal
Deadline reports that a film version of Nicholas Pekearo’s “werewolf cop uses curse to kill criminals” novel The Wolfman is in the works. The novel was up by Macmillan Entertainment and Everest Entertainment Group, who are working with Pekearo’s mother to develop the novel into a screenplay. Pekearo was a NYPD Auxiliary police officer who was killed in the line of duty in 2007. “The Wolfman” was his first novel, and was published in 2009. (more…)
Man in werewolf mask robs a Forever 21, because “Florida”
What else is there to say, really? It’s all there in the post title. Florida news-bots WESH and WKMG have more details if you want them, but as you can see from the surveillance photo, there’s nothing going on. Oh, well, I mean, there’s some skinny turd in a hoodie using a gun and a mask to get all the “big bills” from the poor manager of a women’s clothing store in an outlet mall, but unless you’re a vigilante superhero in Orlando who’s looking for a bottom-of-the-barrel villain to hunt, there’s not a lot of meat on this particular bone. (more…)
Destroy bullies and witches with Sockweb’s “Werewolf” album
If you missed my earlier post about Sockweb – “the world’s first father/daughter grindcore band” who funded their first album on Indiegogo last year – now’s your chance to experience the joys of a 7-year-old girl scream “bullies are mean!” over a solid wall of kick drums and crushing guitar riffs. (more…)
The winds of change: a socially conscious Werewolf News reboot
Welcome, friends. This week marks the six year anniversary of Werewolf News, and it also marks a major milestone in the site’s editorial vision. (more…)
A Wednesday WolfCop extravaganza! Contest, photos & more
Friends, I’m sorry for the lack of posts lately – I’ve been busy and sick – but let me try to make it up to you with a jumbo-sized #WerewolfWednesday WolfCop update! I’ve got three things for you – one for your brain, and two for your eyes.
First, Echolands Creative (the production company behind the movie) has announced a week-long contest that could get your name in the credits, and your clever tagline on the theatrical poster.
Indie film fans! WOLFCOP IS ON THE PROWL FOR A NEW TAGLINE… Submit your entries here [as a comment on the Facebook post – aq] or Tweet: @WolfCopTheMovie #TweetTaglineContest. Winner gets mention in film’s end credits and the tagline headlines the official theatrical poster by award-winning poster illustrator Tom Hodge, aka The Dude. Contest closes Wednesday, April 2 end of day. Give us your killer one liner for your chance to join the WOLFCOP universe!
I have a text document open right now and I’m just fillin’ it up with horrible one-liners. Look out, because if I can come up with any taglines that won’t get me thrown in word-jail, I aim to win that contest.
Second, Fangoria has just posted exclusive photos of the eponymous Lou Garou in werewolf form. I won’t repost them all because I’m not a mooch (not that Fangoria needs the pageviews), but I will share the one that made me laugh out loud, and include some great comments from Emersen Ziffle, the FX wizard behind WolfCop’s practical werewolf makeup.
The movie’s FX were created by Emersen Ziffle, who has worked on films like CHAINED and CURSE OF CHUCKY and combined Dean’s cues inspirations with his own. “I was influenced by the latest version of the Wolfman, done beautifully by Rick Baker and Dave Elsey—a less doglike, more human werewolf. How would the imagination see a werewolf cop? I feel we delivered on that while remaining unique within the genre.”
The process of turning Fafard into the hairy arm of the law took a couple of hours each day, and with the actor buried under foam latex and acrylic hair, “We were worried about Leo overheating,” Ziffle says. “But shooting in November in Saskatchewan [Canada] kept him just cool enough. We actually almost froze his fingers a few times because the resin claw tips acted as a cold conduit, wicking the heat from his fingertips.”
See, here’s the benefit of practical makeup over CG: the results are tactile, and they look really really good. Like, almost too good – I can practically smell Lou, and that ain’t good. Shampoo those forearms! Also, with CG creature effects, you can’t take photos of your gore-streaked werewolf character hug-biting your remarkably sanguine writer/director.
Lastly, here’s a WolfCop production diary video I missed from January. It examines the process of designing the film’s werewolf effects and then bringing the beast to life.
I tweeted a comment to some of the WolfCop crew earlier today, and I think it’s worth repeating here… I’ve never been so excited for a werewolf movie, and I’ve never been prouder of a Canadian production.