Author: Angela Quinton

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 among scary and twisted folks’ beliefs. Because of a too apprehensive and catholic mother, an absent father and a mysterious physical anomaly, Giulio, the most quiet between the two brothers, heads away from his family, having no desire of being in touch with the rest of the world. Francesco seems to suffer Giulio’s departure and becomes nervous and unbearable . It’s a radical changing in their lives, that gets worse because of the discovering of a secret involving their birth, a secret that leads the twins to confront themselves with the darkest human side. A secret that seems related to the murders commissioner Vanni is trying to solve. It’s something that link Giulio and Francesco to the legend of VERSIPELLIS. While Vanny is searching for the truth in the streets of a dark Rome, the two brothers start hunting for each others…

Okay, yeah, I would watch that – the trailer looks solid! Give me some English subtitles and I’m good to go. Have any Werewolf News readers seen this film, and if so, what’d you think?

Thanks to reader Reepicheep for submitting the trailer and IMDB link!

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 halfway decent werewolf special effects shown through deliberately lo-fi faux found footage could make for some great visuals, but as we’ve seen time and time again, great visuals don’t make up for a wretched story. I haven’t seen The Devil Inside (and most likely never will, since pretty much everything about it falls outside the scope of my interest), but the box office numbers being what they are in the face of such negative mainstream reviews indicates that the film has found an audience somewhere. Horror fans, maybe? I’d like to hear what Werewolf News readers thought about the film.

As for this new “werewolf in jail” film, I’m thinking: alternate version of the Monster Squad wolfman’s story? Come on, someone get Jon Gries on the phone.

… the post title says it all, really. Love Bite, directed by Andy De Emmony and produced/distributed by WestEnd Films, is currently in post production and slated for release later this year. Following is an official synopsis, some sales artwork via Dread Central and a teaser trailer via Bloody Disgusting (I apologize in advance if it makes you sit through a godawful The Devil Inside commercial).

High school is over and summer has begun in the dead-end seaside town of Rainmouth. While Jamie’s friends seem to be happy working in the local pie factory by day and looking for a shag by night, Jamie is bored out of his mind, running his pot-head mother’s B&B. He’s desperate to get out of there. But when he meets beautiful, smart and sexy American traveler Juliana at a party, he’s smitten – the world is not so small after all.

But soon after Juliana’s arrival, strange things start happening. One of the local teens goes missing at a party. Then, another. Jamie is warned by an enigmatic stranger that a werewolf is in town – and preying solely on virgin flesh! The only way to be safe seems to be to pop your cherry. (But that can’t be true… can it?)

As the locals are picked off one by one, the boys fear that a werewolf is indeed after them. And for all their talk, it turns out none of them have ever had sex before…

Pretty soon, everyone is dying to get laid…

Not Golden Globe material, granted, but having seen the trailer, I find it hard to dislike a film that seems to know exactly what it’s trying to accomplish and that obviously doesn’t take itself too seriously. I love Jamie’s douchey friends, the off-season holiday town vibe and the big girl in the brown fur coat. If she or Jamie’s mom turn out to be the werewolf I will be so pleased.

I am not excited about ANY of this, but I like the “vampires & lycans vs. humans” approach, and while its giant size is a dumb gimmick, I quite like the design of the “big bad lycan”. I’M ALL OVER THE MAP, I KNOW.

I just read a Dread Central review for “Dino Wolf”, a 2011 horror film that was apparently born as “Dire Wolf” and is now lurching around getting blood on everything. Normally this isn’t something I would look at twice, but this quote from the review piqued my interest:

With an emphasis on practical special effects over computer animation, [director] Fred Olen Ray should be applauded for going this route with his latest creature feature. Had this been a Syfy movie, the monster would have been a fully computer-generated dire wolf and probably wouldn’t have looked anywhere near as realistically ghastly as this monster suit does. Yeah, it’s obviously a werewolf suit, but it’s a damn good one.

A bipedal werewolf executed via suit-based practical effects – YES. I’ve sat through many a terrible film in the hopes of seeing a werewolf done well in this way, and if Dino Wolf can deliver, I’ll check it out regardless of what the rest of the film content is like (luckily, it sounds pretty okay). The trailer below has quite a few shots of the creature (mostly causing violent deaths – lotta gore, there), and it reminds me of the werewolves from Werewolf the TV series – that’s a good thing.

Dino Wolf is available on the Internet’s never-ending product hole, Amazon, for fifteen bucks. I think… I think I’m gonna get it. Have you seen it? What did you think?

It’s time for my yearly post about Jack and Diane, the on-again-off-again (on again) werewolf film by writer/director Bradley Rust Gray. As I learned from a post on Werewolves.com earlier today, the film has a theatrical release date of June 1st 2012, although its Facebook page also mentions an “on demand” release on April 27rd. I’m using quotes there because I’m sure whichever media provider’s facilitating the April 27th release isn’t available here in Canada. Thanks, CRTC.

But I digress! If you don’t know anything about Jack and Diane, here, let me fix that for you:

Jack (Riley Keough) and Diane (Juno Temple), two teenage girls, meet in New York City and spend the night kissing ferociously. Diane’s charming innocence quickly begins to open Jack’s tough skinned heart. But when Jack discovers that Diane is moving she pushes her away. Unable to grasp her new feelings, Diane’s emotions begin to cause unexplainable violent changes to her body. Through these awkward and insecure feelings, the two girls must struggle to turn their first love into an enduring one.

I’m excited that this is finally coming out!