Werewolf links, news, and reviews
Believe it or not, there are werewolf movies other than “An American Werewolf in London”.
Vancouver Film School graduate Crissy Renaud’s werewolf placed 2nd in an international makeup competition run by Make-Up Artist Magazine in July. Crissy’s work was part of the Student Competition at IMATS, the International Make-Up Artist Trade Show, held in Pasedena, California. VFS has a short but excellent interview with Crissy, wherin she talks about her prep work, the werewolf movies that inspired her, and how she decided what sort of werewolf to create. Congratulations, Crissy!
ArcLight sent in this fake (but awesome) trailer by Joe Avella, for a handi-capable horror film called Wheelchair Werewolf.
If this site made any money, I’d put ArcLight on the payroll and task him with finding ridiculous stuff like this. “Almost no-one can escape… Wheelchair Werewolf!”
As everyone and their sainted aunt is reporting (including the ever-vigilant ArcLight), Stone Village Pictures has acquired the rights to Lobo, a script by Dikran Ornekian and Ryan Colluci “about a colony of werewolves in Brazil.” Everyone’s basically reposting the same blurb from Variety:
…a man receives a photo and letters from his mother’s will, then heads to an isolated town in the Amazon to discover his roots. There, he discovers a near-extinct species of werewolves and his true identity, and he helps the werewolves wage a battle for survival.
Fighting to help keep werewolves from extinction? That’s a premise I can get behind! Filming starts October 15th in Rio de Janeiro.
iF Magazine has an exclusive interview with Frank Spotnitz, producer and co-scriptwriter for X-Files: I Want To Believe. If you’ll recall, there were whispers that I Want To Believe involved werewolves, and that one of the werewolves might have been Mulder. These (ultimately false) rumours were deliberately encouraged by the filmmakers via Photoshopped werewolf transformation makeup tests and on-set photos of werewolf props. In the interview, iF Magazine asks Spotnitz what the deal was.
iF: There was some kind of “wolf suit” photography that leaked to the Internet last year when you were filming. I’m assuming this was planted to throw people off the scent of what the movie was about?
SPOTNITZ: That’s right. We actually got the idea for the werewolf mislead because of an obscure post on Ain’t It Cool News. Someone had written that they’d met [director] Chris [Carter] in a bar and he’d told them the movie would be about werewolves. We decided to just keep feeding that storyline. We felt most people wouldn’t be too disappointed when the movie ended up not being about werewolves after all.
You were wrong, Franky. Wrong.
Update: well. that didn’t take long! The Wolfman trailer posted here has been taken down by YouTube, undoubtedly thanks to Universal’s lawyer-squad. In case you missed it, here are a few choice images grabbed from the trailer:
Now that the SDCC Wolfman panel frenzy has tapered off a bit, I think it’s safe to talk about the recent interviews with Rick Baker. Baker, if you didn’t know, is the special effects guru who brought on the fur and claws in An American Werewolf in London, The Howling, Werewolf (the TV series), Wolf, Cursed, and most recently, the forthcoming Wolfman remake. Basically, if you need a werewolf designed for the screen, Baker’s your man. MTV Movies and the always-awesome shocktillyoudrop.com both recently spoke with Baker regarding his werewolf work on The Wolfman.
New York indie band We Are Scientists have recorded a song. That song is called Impatience, and comes from their album Brain Thrust Mastery
We all know how werewolves work. Take a human, and turn him (or her) into a wolf-like creature. But what if the reverse happened, and a wolf woke up one morning as an amnesiac human with a craving for lots and lots of flesh? It’s a concept that’s been tossed around before, but Audie & The Wolf, a film by Brooklyn Reptyle Productions, looks like a fresh take on the idea. Black humour, gore, a Satanist villain named Jim and a grinning reverse-werewolf with a chainsaw? Yes.
Watch the trailer below, visit the official web site, or check out the Fangoria interview with director Brian Scott O’Malley for more info and some exclusive photos.
FirstShowing.net has got some great photos of Rhona Mitra, the werewolf death-dealer in Underworld: Rise of the Lycans. Sorry, no werewolf photos yet, but according to this MoviesOnline interview with director Patrick Tatopoulos, the film’ story is seen “from the eyes of the werewolf. We are not seeing it from the eyes of the vampires anymore.” Sounds promising!
Click the thumbnail to see the rest of the images, or here to read the interview with Tatopoulos. Thanks to ArcLight for the tip!
The Los Angeles Times has an 11-photo gallery of iconic/important werewolves from the history of film. Selections include Henry Hull as the Werewolf of London, Michael Landon as the Teenage Werewolf and, amusingly, Jason Bateman as Teen Wolf.
