Werewolf links, news, and reviews
This is a good week for preorders! If you’re interested in Legendary – The Game (formerly Legendary – The Box), it’s now available for preorder. If you’re interested in battling and, apparently, herding werewolves (among other supernatural creatures), you can pick it up from Amazon for Playstation 3
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.
A painting featuring a werewolf is in the running for the John Moores Contemporary Painting Prize. Woman Surprised By Werewolf, a painting by Stuart Pearson Wright, is one of 40 paintings vying for the first prize of £25,000. As reported by guardian.co.uk, ArtDaily.org and Times Online, the painting was inspired by An American Werewolf in London. All 40 paintings will be exhibited at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool between September 20th and January 4th, and the winners will be announced the first day of the exhibition.
Preliminary sketches (NSFW warning for artistic nudity) for Woman Surprised By Werewolf can be found on Wright’s site.
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.
If you just can’t get enough of Never Cry Werewolf, or if you weren’t able to catch it when it ran on SciFi, there’s good news! Amazon is accepting pre-orders
The official site for Universal’s highly-anticipated remake of The Wolfman has appeared. At the moment it’s quite light on content, having only a Story page that gives a back-of-the-DVD-style synopsis of the plot, and an Image gallery that has three photos we’ve seen before, including the two (still completely excellent) photos of star Benicio Tel Toro in werewolf makeup. Yet despite its simplicity, the site is atmospheric and well-designed. I look forward to seeing it fill up with new content over the coming months.
Visit the site at www.thewolfmanmovie.com.
Rob Zombie has posted the cover art for the first issue of Werewolf Women of the S.S., the comic based on the Grindhouse trailer I mentioned last week. The artwork is by David Hartman, and while there’s no other details available yet, I’m sure Zombie will keep teasing us with tidbits of info over the coming weeks.
Click the thumbnail for the full (mildly NSFW) cover. Thanks again to ArcLight for the tip.
As August and the release of Ben Templesmith’s new comic series Welcome To Hoxford draws ever-closer, anticipation is starting to build. Comic Book Resources has posted an IDW press release about the werewolf-themed title. From that press release:
Raymond Delgado is the newest inmate at the Hoxford Correctional Facility and Mental Institution. He has no hope of release, parole, rehabilitation, or decent conversation. Ray hasn’t been taking his medication. No surprises there. On a good day, he’ll tell you he’s Zeus and only bite your arm off–literally. On a bad day, you won’t have time to scream to the prison guard for help.
Templesmith’s previous work has received many accolades. Here’s hoping Hoxford is equally excellent– werewolf media needs the help!
As reported on his blog and discussed by myriad other sources, Rob Zombie is planning a comic series based on Werewolf Women of the S.S., one of the trailers-for-fake-movies that ran with Grindhouse. There’s no other information available at the moment —no release date, publisher or artist— but as soon as that info becomes available, you know we’ll post it here schnell. Oh, and if you’d like to see the original (probably NSFW) trailer, here you go.