If you’re a fan of crime thrillers, truly excellent accents and hand pruners, might I suggest Bigger and Badder, a 2012 short film written and directed by Richard Wantuch and starring Phil Hemming, Sam Knight and Christopher Harvey. It’s 16 minutes of wonderfully-acted, tightly-edited, perfectly-scored tension by Plaural Films, and my only complaint about it is that it’s not a feature length film. (more…)
The blind hero of “Late Phases” has a reason to hate werewolves
If you’re in Austin for SXSW this weekend, save some energy for a late-night screening of Late Phases, a new werewolf film from Adrian Garcia Bogliano. The Wrap has a great interview with the star Nick Damici, who’s only 54 but jumped at the chance to play “a 70-year-old blind man who has to battle werewolves after they kill his seeing eye-dog during his first day at a haunted retirement community.” (more…)
Help Kickstart the mischievous denizens of “House Of Monsters”
Last month I posted about House Of Monsters, a delightful stop-motion short by Dawn Brown about a bunch of monsters – including a rakish werewolf – getting up to shenanigans in a gorgeously realized castle. If you enjoyed that mix of nostalgia and tactile wonder, I have good news for you: Dawn and her crew want to make it an ongoing web series, and they’re asking for our help on Kickstarter. (more…)
Another gorgeous Mondo poster for “The Wolf Man”
Here’s another wonderful piece of fine art werewolfery from Mondo, those magicians of film and pop culture artifacts. Mondo commissions incredible artists to produce poster artwork for cult / classic films and TV shows, and then burns through a run of limited edition prints in a flash sale designed to make collectors with slow internet connections cry bitter tears. (more…)
“Breeds” by Keith C Blackmore
It’s not every day I get asked to share a book with a forward that warns squeamish people not to buy it. “Breeds” by Canadian horror & fantasy author Keith C Blackmore is a “werewolf book. Not a romance. Not at all.” It’s $4.99 on Amazon, and it gets an automatic thumbs-up from me before reading more than the first two pages because Blackmore knows how to write a convincing Newfoundland accent. (more…)
The Bogus Backyard Werewolf of Brazil
According to The Internet, this is a real thing, insofar as man’s claims re: a 1.5 metre, hair-covered thing scratching at his gate and “writhing” in a very real way motivated the Brazilian city of São Gonçalo dos Campos to impose a 9PM curfew. (more…)
Ask Andronica! Instincts and Guilt
After my first column was published two weeks ago, it didn’t take more than an hour before I received an angry phone call from Livia in New York. The Sisterhood of the Wolf had tolerated my publishing activities so far, she said, because everyone would assume that it was all fiction. If I now began answering questions from the public, however, then verification of my existence would be possible – at least by those who submit questions to the column. (more…)
Come see me at Vancoufur 2014
If you live in the Vancouver area and you’ve ever wanted to take me to task in person for my controversial opinions on lycanthropic topics, this weekend is your chance. Starting at 11AM Thursday the 27th (tomorrow!) and running through Sunday March 2nd, my wife Tandye and I will be running a table in the Dealers’ Den at Vancoufur. (more…)
Creators of “Hellfjord” team up for horror-comedy “Party Animal”
As exclusively reported by Variety and then parroted verbatim by dozens of other movie news sites, Norwegian director Patrik Syversen (Hellfjord) and actor / screenwriter Stig Frode Henriksen (Hellfjord, Dead Snow) are teaming up for “Party Animal”, which is being described as “the first modern Scandinavian werewolf movie” by its producers. (more…)
Happle Tea shows the true value of a silver Olympic medal
This comic by Scott Maynard of Happle Tea was probably created during the 2012 Summer Olympics, but let’s face it: if werewolves were going to attack the medal podium, it’d totally be during a Winter Olympics held in Russia. (more…)