Horror Movies Forum - Where are all the GREAT WEREWOLF films?? try this one.

Re: Where are all the GREAT WEREWOLF films?? try this one.

dummy@example.com (JackBurton) — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 18:06:01 +0000

Yeah...Werewolves are my favorite classic movie monsters but over a decade of Twilights and Underworlds (An american Werewolf in Paris????) have made me avoid anything with werewolves in them. CGI werewolf=fail. Dog Soldiers was aight....

I think we need to see some kind of crossover movie to bring the fear back. A Werewolf Road movie...Werewolf Women of the SS...Just one original script and some makeup transformations and some gore...Werewolves can be the next big thing...You heard it here first...

Re: Where are all the GREAT WEREWOLF films?? try this one.

dummy@example.com (Kharis Matic) — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 17:58:06 +0000

Here's an interesting variation on the subject. A film with a favorable atmoshere for the genre:

The Undying Monster (1942)

Re: Where are all the GREAT WEREWOLF films?? try this one.

dummy@example.com (PrinceofDarkness) — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 18:41:47 +0000

do not sleep on Teen Wolf.

Re: Where are all the GREAT WEREWOLF films?? try this one.

dummy@example.com (Milo) — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 12:23:46 +0000

Hello everyone, this is my first post. I, too, like The Howling and American Werewolf very much, pretty much for the same reasons you've already outlined here. I think a lot of Dog Soldiers, and I have actually used Ginger Snaps in a class I teach called The Horror Film at a local college. All of these films are part of my collection, and so are The Wolf Man, Were Wolf of London, and some TV werewolves I thought worthy of mention, the werewolves of True Blood. It may not be a great horror film, but it is a great summertime guilty pleasure!

Re: Where are all the GREAT WEREWOLF films?? try this one.

dummy@example.com (swollenguy) — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 22:55:49 +0000

I have a copy of The boy who cried werewolf. The 70’s drive-in shlock that double billed with SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS, not the kids movie

Re: Where are all the GREAT WEREWOLF films?? try this one.

dummy@example.com (dreamseekerprods) — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 22:39:07 +0000

i noticed also that WOLFEN didn't make the discussion here. i like certain aspects of that movie, but i'm not surprised (nor bothered) by the fact that no one brought it up. come to think of it, the same goes for WOLF, with Jack, Michelle and James. Blaaaah. At least they didn't go crazy with any CGI. I'll give them that.

THE BEAST cost 600 bucks and took one night. so, it's not perfection, but would you be open to seeing this as a feature? wondering whether or not to pursue pitching a feature version to producers in town.

Link: http://youtu.be/2dKecixJico

Re: Where are all the GREAT WEREWOLF films?? try this one.

dummy@example.com (dreamseekerprods) — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 16:10:38 +0000

Moon of the Wolf. Will have to track that one down.

Agreed on the CGI wolf effect. Such a tragedy to all the work the master make-up artists did for so many years! Latest CGI lame CGI transformation? the WOLFMAN remake? there are two big transformation scenes in it....and....well, neither one will give you so much as a shudder. not. even. one. siiiiiiigh......

Re: Where are all the GREAT WEREWOLF films?? try this one.

dummy@example.com (LoudLon) — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 01:40:00 +0000

^^^ Agreed. And let's not forget an early character role for Geoffrey (father of Juliet) Lewis.

Re: Where are all the GREAT WEREWOLF films?? try this one.

dummy@example.com (Bunshinsaba) — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 12:28:35 +0000

A little remembered TV movie from the 70s still gives me the creeps: Moon of the Wolf starring David Jansen as a sheriff in small Louisiana bayou town under siege from a werewolf in this whodunnit horror. Great music, wonderful southern locales, nice suspense, and superlative cast keeps it briskly paced and engaging. And the fact that most of the killings are done POV - normally a negative - works wonderfully with the whodunnit mystery of which town member is the wolf. My two schillings.

Re: Where are all the GREAT WEREWOLF films?? try this one.

dummy@example.com (fredgarvin) — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 03:05:48 +0000

I look no further than the great Paul Naschy for werewolf films. You won't catch him simpering and whining like Chaney Jr. He da man , wolf or not. Dr' Jeckyl is a punk and Samurai lords, vampire queens and even the Yeti must bow before his awesomeness.

Re: Where are all the GREAT WEREWOLF films?? try this one.

dummy@example.com (Treuj) — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 05:51:48 +0000

Tripedal?? I fear there will be no more great werewolves in film anymore due to the use/overuse of cgi as it has destroyed movie monsters. What you get is instant werewolf as in 'Underworld'. That is totally comical.
'The Howling' is superior to AAWIL in that it was genuinely scary, the setting was totally atmospheric and the bipedal nature of the werewolves were what you expect from a werewolf. However....Rick Baker's transformation effects were superior to Rob Bottin's in TH.

Re: Where are all the GREAT WEREWOLF films?? try this one.

dummy@example.com (dreamseekerprods) — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 15:35:52 +0000

deadhorse13, don't worry. it won't mar anything. they do a great job of covering the costume lines up. i only point it out because it's a great (one of the few) example of making a great werewolf film DESPITE having no money to make stan winston-esque creatures.

Re: Where are all the GREAT WEREWOLF films?? try this one.

dummy@example.com (moviemaven) — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 02:41:40 +0000

Ghostseeker wrote:

swollenguy wrote:
silver bullet. It might be cheesy but I like the authority figure against youth and isolation/handicap plot devices.
Not only one of my favorite movies, but definitely my favorite werewolf movie.
I don't think I've seen Dog Soldiers, but keep hearing good things bout it. I gotta check it out.

Trust me, Darlin, you want to watch it. I said so.

Good call on Silver Bullet!

Re: Where are all the GREAT WEREWOLF films?? try this one.

dummy@example.com (deadhorse13) — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 02:20:10 +0000

dreamseekerprods wrote:

DOG SOLDIERS for me was one of those horror movies that was so entertaining that i didn't mind that I could literally see the lines in the monster suit, like where the gloves began, etc.

I've watched this film numerous times, love it, adore the look of the werewolves, and have never even noticed this. Now that this has been brought to my attention, I sincerely hope it doesn't mar my next viewing. lol

Re: Where are all the GREAT WEREWOLF films?? try this one.

dummy@example.com (Ghostseeker) — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 02:09:58 +0000

swollenguy wrote:

silver bullet. It might be cheesy but I like the authority figure against youth and isolation/handicap plot devices.

Not only one of my favorite movies, but definitely my favorite werewolf movie.

I don't think I've seen Dog Soldiers, but keep hearing good things bout it. I gotta check it out.