Game of Werewolves aside, this decade has been disappointingly short on good werewolf movies, so I’m pleased to report that 2013’s Wer fills that void quite admirably. (more…)
Author: Craig J. Clark
Craig J. Clark hasn't seen every werewolf movie ever made, but he's working on it (the complete list of the ones he's seen so far is here). He has been a contributor to Werewolf News since August 2011, when he wrote about his deep and abiding love for John Landis's An American Werewolf in London. Since then, his Full Moon Features have appeared every time the moon has been full and bright. His non-werewolf reviews can be found at Crooked Marquee and on Letterboxd.
Full Moon Features: Screaming Werewolves Never Bite
When it comes to the vocalizations of werewolves — or wolves in general — one tends to think of them howling or growling. In a pinch, you could even imagine one barking or (depending on how sad they are) crying, but unless they’re in the middle of a painful-looking transformation, it’s difficult to picture a werewolf screaming. Unlikely as that may be, though, it didn’t prevent two movies released a decade apart from asking viewers to do just that. (more…)
Full Moon Features: The Company of Wolves
In September 1984, Neil Jordan’s horror-fantasy The Company of Wolves was screened at the Toronto Film Festival and then went into general release in the UK, giving the Canucks and the Brits a jump on their Yank counterparts since we didn’t get it in the States until the following April. (more…)
Full Moon Features: Cry of the Werewolf
Seventy years ago this month, Columbia Pictures attempted to hop on the werewolf bandwagon with 1944’s Cry of the Werewolf while also throwing in a dash of Cat People (a recent hit for RKO) for good measure. (more…)
Full Moon Features: Wolf (1994)
This may come as a shock to those with short memories, but not all summer blockbusters used to be about larger-than-life superheroes, rampaging robots, and radioactive lizards. (more…)
Full Moon Features: The Beast Must Die
The discerning lycanthropologist might be interested to know that the recently published reference book Hidden Horror: A Celebration of 101 Underrated and Overlooked Fright Flicks includes entries on a number of classic werewolf films, including Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man, The Curse of the Werewolf and The Company of Wolves. (more…)
Full Moon Features: Werewolf Hunter
Say, do you like werewolf movies but wish more were based on actual historical events? (more…)
Full Moon Features: Blood and Chocolate
He’s an artist doing research in Bucharest on the legend of the loup-garous for a graphic novel, she’s a werewolf chocolatier who’s been promised to the leader of her pack when she comes of age — can the two of them get along? (more…)