Stan Winston, legendary special effects and creature designer, passed away at his Malibu home on Sunday the 15th after a seven-year battle with multiple myeloma. Winston created many of the 20th century’s iconic film special effects scenes, with a particular focus on creature design animatronics. You may know his work from the Jurassic Park films, the Terminator films, the Alien films, the Predator films. Winston also designed the Wolfman from The Monster Squad. We’ll miss you, Stan.
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
Wired.com Coolest Movie Metamorphoses Image Gallery
Wired.com is running a great image gallery about the Coolest Movie Metamorphoses. Two of the twelve transformations included are werewolf transformations– Lon Chaney’s Wolf Man and An American Werewolf in London.
Legendary Werewolf Image Gallery
If you’re interested in the werewolves in Legendary The Game (formerly Legendary – The Box), Kotaku has a great werewolf-centric screenshot gallery up. The poster, Mike Fahey, mentions that the werewolves look exactly like the ones that plagued his childhood nightmares, and many of the commenters on the gallery express similar sentiments. Did any of you have werewolf nightmares when you were kids?
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!
Ben Templesmith Posts Welcome To Hoxford Art
Australian comic artist Ben Templesmith, of 30 Days of Night fame, has posted on his Flickr account seven piece of art related to his new “werewolves in a mental institute” comic series Welcome to Hoxford.
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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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New Design for Werewolf News
As you may have noticed, Werewolf News is sporting a new, 100% original design. Please bear with me as I fine-tune the layout and features over the weekend. If you have any comments or questions, please let me know!
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.