Is nothing sacred? As reported by Bloody Disgusting and others, John Landis, director of American Werewolf In London, confirmed at HorrorHound that he would be open to doing a remake of his classic 1980s werewolf film. Landis owns the rights to AWIL, and is apparently “in talks” with people to resurrect David, Jack and Nurse Price. I don’t know about you, but I think that’s a terrible idea. What do you think? Should AWIL be “re-imagined” for 21st century audiences? Post your opinions in the comments.
Category: Film, Television & Music
Believe it or not, there are werewolf movies other than “An American Werewolf in London”.
Werewolves Crave… Kentucky Fried Chicken?
You may have seen this trailer for a werewolf movie called Night Hunger floating around on YouTube recently. Grainy, scratchy film stock, wooden voice-overs, actors who all sound constipated, budget werewolf effects, buckets of gore– this has got to be a trailer for a trashy 1970’s grindhouse flick, right? Wrong.
American Werewolf in London on Blu-ray in 2009
John Landis has confirmed that the legendary film American Werewolf in London, which he directed, will be released on Sony’s Blue-ray format sometime in 2009.
Interview with Richard Tyson, “Big Bad Wolf” Werewolf Actor
Ringside Report has a lengthy interview (2015-04-12: link appears to be broken) with actor Richard Tyson, who played the smart-ass lycanthrope in the 2006 werewolf-attacks-college-students-in-remote-cabin film Big Bad Wolf
Weta Digital Talks About Prince Caspian Effects
Stuff.co.nz has an interview with Guy Williams of Weta Digital, the New Zealand special effects company who contributed creature and visual effects to Prince Caspian. Briefly discussed is the ever-popular Wer-wolf, and the trickiness of really convincing CGI fur effects. It’s not a particularly in-depth interview, but the talking points they do touch on are interesting. Check it out!
Interview with Brenton Spencer, Director of Never Cry Werewolf
If you just can’t get enough of Never Cry Werewolf (and Google Analytics says most of you can’t), horroryearbook.com has a brief interview with the film’s director, Brenton Spencer. The interview is largely biographical, with few anecdotes or comments about actual film making, but Spencer does have this to say about selecting an actor to wear a werewolf costume:
If I’ve learned anything in my career it is this; If you are looking to put someone in a Werewolf costume, or any creature costume, use an actor, use an athlete, use a stunt man, but don’t ever use a classical ballet dancer. A grande jette is just not scary!
Thanks for that, Spencer!
Beware the Moon – Remembering An American Werewolf in London
Arguably the best and most famous werewolf movie of the 20th century is An American Werewolf In London. AWIL had it all: great horror, black humour, a killer soundtrack, and the best werewolf transformation scene ever committed to film. Now, over 25 years after AWIL was released, filmmaker Paul Davis is getting ready to release Beware the Moon – Remembering An American Werewolf in London, a feature-length documentary on the making of the classic werewolf movie.
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Never Cry Werewolf, Again.
ArcLight was kind enough to point out that the infamous made-for-TV werewolf movie Never Cry Werewolf will once again be showing on SciFi today at 9 P.M. local time. Whether this is a good thing or not is open to interpretation. After finally managing to see it last week (don’t ask how, lest the CMPDA come knocking on my door), I think I’ll be watching Heroes on DVD instead.
Burton and Depp to Collaborate on Dark Shadows Remake
As reported by a number of different sources, most of which are drawing from the original IESB.net release, Tim Burton will be directing a film adaptation of the 1960s gothic soap opera Dark Shadows. It’s looking likely that Johnny Depp will be involved as well– his production company, Infinitum-Nihil, has been developing the property, and he’s said in at least one interview that when he was a kid, he wanted to be Barnabas Collins, the vampiric lead character.
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Narnia Director Plans Werewolf Movie
Andrew Adamson, director of The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, Prince Caspian and the first two Shrek movies, is developing the werewolf novel Benighted
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