Lucía, Luis & The Wolf – Nightmarish stop-motion shorts from Chile’s Diluvio

Viergacht sent me links to these videos earlier in the month, and I only got around to watching them this morning. They’ve been with me all day. I can’t explain them, other than to say they freak out the part of my brain that makes it so I can’t play Silent Hill games.

Lucía (2007) by Cristóbal León, Joaquin Cociña, Niles Atallah
Lucía is the 1st short video of the series “Lucía, Luis y el lobo” (“Lucía, Luis and the Wolf”). The video was shot frame by frame with a digital photo camera. Materials: charcoal, dirt, flowers, found objects and cardboard.

Luis (2008) by Cristóbal León, Joaquin Cociña, Niles Atallah
Luis is the 2nd short video of the series “Lucía, Luis y el lobo” (”Lucía, Luis and the Wolf”), it is a follow-up to the short video Lucía. The video was shot frame by frame with a digital photo camera. Materials: charcoal, dirt, flowers, found objects and cardboard.

These are the work of Diluvio, a film production company in Santiago, Chile.

Nov. 18th 2010

Fuzzy Camera – Werewolf Images Digest 3

It’s been a while! Here’s another batch werewolf pictures I’ve seen over the past few months and liked enough to want to save. Lots of these are from old magazine ads, which are neat because they tend to be well-staged, carefully set up photos.



Fuzzy Camera / fuzzycamera.tumblr.com

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Nov. 17th 2010

Official Trailer makes “Red Riding Hood” look like “Twilight” because of course it does

The trailer for 2011’s Red Riding Hood was just released, and from the look of things, director Catherine Hardwicke is still in denial over not being asked back to direct more Twilight films. See for yourself:

A gaunt, poofy-haired male lead swanning about a forest full of sunbeams with his virginal, angelic female counterpart? Hmmm. Hmmmmm. As excited as I am to hear Gary Oldman say the word “werewolf”, I’ve got a bad feeling about this.

Nov. 17th 2010

The Wretched, Awful Trailer for MTV’s Wretched, Awful “Teen Wolf” Remake

Hopes: dashed. This looks like an after-school special with a big effects budget. The producers in charge of this should be fired, first from their jobs, then from a big cannon pointed into a volcano. Good job, MTV: obtain the rights to a quirky 80’s cult film, then replace all of the character, charm and originality with “drama” so lame and predictable it would’ve been cut from The Gates. Oh no, Scott’s got a date with a hot girl on the same night as the full moon! What’s gonna happen? Frankly, MTV, I don’t give a shit, and neither will anyone else.

Viacom is going around DMCAing this trailer wherever it pops up, so if this embedded version doesn’t work, sorry. Or… you’re welcome?

Special shout-out to the special effects crew who worked on this: thanks for the effort. Your work (what little I could see of it in this trailer) looks like the one redeeming feature of this abomination.

Hat tip: manny

Nov. 16th 2010

The Most Bad-Ass Werewolf Suit of Halloween 2010

Christopher Reeves sent me this photo of the werewolf suit he put together for Halloween 2010. Let’s all just stare at it in silent jealousy for a moment, shall we?

My inspiration was “American Werewolf of London” meets “Underwold”. The head and legs were sculpted and cast in latex using a kit from Monster Makers. The stilts were based off of the Gryphern design and slightly modified. The teeth and gums were sculpted and cast using dental acrylic. The body is a spandex body suit that I sewed the muscles into and painted latex on top of it. The forearms and eyes are the only items I actually purchased. Then everything was airbrushed and fur was added. I also installed some led booklights from the dollar store behind the eyes to make them light up.

There’s nothing about this suit that I don’t love. The fur, the colouring, the face, the claws. Nice flippin’ work, Christopher. You set the bar pretty high for next year!

Nov. 15th 2010

Werewolf Costume Photo sets: Wolf Woman Macabri / Bailey and Paige as David Kessler & Jack Goodman

Readers sometimes share their makeup photos with me, and at this time of year the levels of effort and quality go through the roof. Here are two separate shoots that I really enjoyed.

Macabri – Wolf Man

You might recognize Macabri from a wolfed-out photo set back in July. In this more recent shoot she swaps the glam for the horror, and the results are fantastic.

Photographer: Rick Basaldua
MUA/Hair: Chrissy Lynn
Werewolf Face Piece: Michael Spatola
Editing: Macabri

Bailey & Paige as David & Jack

Bailey Quillin sent me this photo of she and her friend Paige. I’m going to let her describe what’s going on.

…my best friend Paige and I dressed as David Kessler and Jack Goodman from An American Werewolf in London to watch the annual Little Five Points Halloween Parade in Atlanta, Georgia. Our makeup was a strange mixture of gore and drag, since we are actually both girls with shoulder length hair. Our friends at the Junkman’s Daughter had a hard time recognizing us in costume. This was also my first attempt at FX makeup.

I declare these two the winners of the Werewolf News costume contest that I should have started a month ago but instead just made up right now. Flippin’ fantastic. To see more photos of this startlingly faithful makeup / costume situation, check this post on Bailey’s blog. There’s also a more recent post showing she and her boyfriend as a mid-transformation punk rock werewolf and Teen Wolf, respectively. Great work!

Oct. 31st 2010

French Canadian werewolf film “Le poil de la bête” (The Hair of the Beast) looks awesome

Every now and then I see something werewolf-related that makes me giddy. This is one of them. I’ve only seen a trailer and a poster for “Le poil de la bête” (The Hair of the Beast) and already I’m in love. The problem is, everything to do with the movie is in French, and I’m one of those Canadians who didn’t pay attention during high school French. Here’s what I’ve put together thanks to Google Translate and the film’s IMDB page: It’s 1665 and scruffy con-man / swindler Joseph Côté manages to escape a Québec (née New France) prison mere hours before he’s scheduled to be hanged. He flees to the seigneury of Beaufort, where the main activity is waiting for “Daughters of the King”– French women who’ve been sent to Canada to find husbands. To avoid capture by the colonial soldiers searching for him, Côté assumes the identity of a Jesuit priest who, unbeknownst to him, is a famed hunter of werewolves. And wouldn’t you know it! Beaufort has a werewolf problem.

It’s Canadian, it’s photographed well, it’s a period piece and it has a werewolf that looks great (from what I could see). This particular mix of ingredients has got me excited! It’s been out for a month in Québec, but I’m not sure if / when / how us Anglos will get a chance to see it. In the meantime, here’s a trailer (love that hand transformation) and a poster. There are more clips and images available at www.lepoildelabete.com. If any French readers (I know there are a few of you out there) learn anything about a larger release on that site, please let us know.

Hat tip: Roger Flavell

Oct. 31st 2010

Original Kyoht werewolf art up for auction

Want some original werewolf art by the talented Kyoht? Now’s your chance. Here are four eBay auctions, two for original paintings, two for original sketches. They’ve each got a day left, so if you’re interested, keep the lollygagging to a minimum.

“Human Bones”

“Council of Fangs”

“A Dandy Dinner”

“Feast”

Oct. 31st 2010

Standard Thompson music video “Fireworks”: female werewolves want more than a daisy on the first date

[insert lame joke about “dinner and a date” here]

Lovely cinematography and good solid rock music by a group of guys who all look like they call their mothers at least once a week. I wish they would have shown more than a glimpse of the werewolf costume, though. It looked pretty good, at least from the shoulders up.

Hat tip: lessthanhuman

Oct. 31st 2010

“High Moon” Turns Three

Three years ago this month, Zuda Comics launched a web-based graphic novel called “High Moon”, written by David Gallaher and drawn by Steve Ellis. It blended werewolves, arcane horror and the Old West in way that was fascinating to read and beautiful to look at. High Moon went on to win a contract with DC Comics after only two months, and in 2009 it won a Harvey Award for Best Online Work. Zuda Comics is now gone, but High Moon lives on at comiXology, where you can read the first issue for free, and the rest are available for purchase at a whopping 99 cents each. You can also purchase Volume 1 as a trade paperback from any decent comic shop or from Amazon. Whatever you do, however you do it, check it out– aside from being one hell of a read, it’s proof (in my opinion) that the Internet is fertile ground in which truly excellent comics can take root and thrive.

Oct. 30th 2010