‘Where evil lurks…’

Night Shadow is a 1989 American werewolf horror film written and directed by Randolph Cohlan (his sole directorial credit). The creature was designed by Mark Crowe based on his story concept. The original title was Night Drop and it was filmed as Lycanthrope.

Main cast:

Brenda Vance, Rick Scott, Stuart Quan [as Dane Chan) (Big Trouble in Little China), Alta LaFlame, Tom Boylan, Mike Hamilton, Kato Kaelin (Revamped), Orien Richman (Witchcraft IV: The Virgin Heart), Jeannette Lewis (House on Haunted Hill), Sally Robinson, Laura Graham, Mike Dyer and veteran Aldo Ray (Psychic Killer; Haunts; Star Slammer).

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Reviews:

“The film doesn’t really stick by the usual werewolf mythology (there’s no transformation by full moon and no silver bullets) but it also doesn’t add anything new or interesting to the formula … Some air bladder effects were used for a brief (and incomplete) transformation scene.” The Bloody Pit of Horror

“When he’s not a werewolf, the killer likes to stare menacingly at people in public.

If he had any motives for anything he did, I would say he did this to poke fun at the inefficient police. The werewolf engages in a few kills off screen, and a few that are too dark to make out…” Bill Silvia, Man in Black Reviews

Aldo Ray with lobsters

“Night Shadow does feature gratuitous Aldo Ray (star power!) playing the traveling inventor father type from Gremlins, an almost okay werewolf suit, a martial arts enthusiast whose wardrobe consists of cut off take tops, a crucial werewolf diary, and Kato Kalien. While Night Shadow fails at being a semi competent werewolf horror movie, it’s mildly amusing…” Smellington, Letterboxd.com

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Filming locations:

Fresno and Hanford, California, USA

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The Vampire Diaries is an American supernatural drama television series developed by Kevin Williamson (Scream; I Know What You Did Last Summer) and Julie Plec (co-producer of Scream 2 and 3; Cursed), based on the popular book series of the same title written by L. J. Smith. The series premiered on The CW on September 10, 2009.

The series takes place in Mystic Falls, Virginia, a fictional small town haunted and surrounded by supernatural beings such as vampires, werewolves and witches.

The pilot episode attracted the largest audience for The CW of any series premiere since the network began in 2006. The first season averaged 3.60 million viewers, and following seasons have maintained an audience of over 2 million viewers.

The series began with mixed reviews, but critics agreed as the first season progressed that the show improved. Subsequent seasons have premiered to more positive critical reception. On March 11, 2016, The CW renewed the series for an eighth season.

In 2013, a spin-off series, The Originals, was launched and is still airing.

Plot:

The series follows the life of Elena Gilbert (Nina Dobrev), a teenage girl who falls deeply in love with a 162-year-old vampire named Stefan Salvatore (Paul Wesley). Their relationship becomes increasingly complicated as Stefan’s vicious, malevolent and mysterious older brother Damon Salvatore (Ian Somerhalder) returns with a plan to wreak havoc on the town, seeking revenge against his younger brother for turning him into a vampire against his will. Because Elena resembles their past love Katherine Pierce, Damon also begins to fall in love with Elena.

It is revealed that Elena is a descendant of Katherine, who eventually returns with plans against the trio. Elena undergoes many hardships and deaths of close family members and loved ones throughout her high school experience.

The series is set in the fictional town of Mystic Falls, Virginia, a town charged with supernatural history since its settlement of migrants from New England in the late 19th century.

Additional story lines revolve around the other inhabitants of the town, most notably Elena’s younger brother Jeremy Gilbert (Steven R. McQueen), her best friends Bonnie Bennett (Kat Graham) and Caroline Forbes (Candice King), and their mutual friends Tyler Lockwood (Michael Trevino) and Matt Donovan (Zach Roerig).

The town’s politics are orchestrated by descendants of the original founding families, all comprising a “Founders’ Council.” The founding families of Mystic Falls includes the Salvatores, the Gilberts, the Fells, the Forbes, and the Lockwoods. They guard the town mainly from vampires, although there are many more supernatural threats such as werewolves, witches, originals, hybrids, travellers and ghosts.

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Guardians of the Night -original title: Nochnye strazhi aka Ночные стражи– is a 2016 Russian supernatural action horror film directed by Emilis Velyvis from a screenplay by Oleg Malovichko. 

Plot:

Moscow: Pasha, a young delivery courier, discovers that there are supernatural creatures such as vampires and werewolves living undetected in the metropolis and is recruited by the organisation tasked with keeping these beings under control…

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Carnivore is a 2016 British werewolf horror film written and directed by Simon Wells. It is his feature directorial debut.

The film stars Ben Loyd-Holmes, Atlanta Johnson, Gregory Cox, Molly Ruskin, Ethan Ruskin, Matthew Bancroft, Adam Ray Young, Yana Penrose, and Dani Thompson.

Synopsis:

Dave and Abi’s relationship is ending, in an effort to save it Dave takes Abi to a remote cottage in a bid to reignite their passion. It doesn’t go well and they get torn apart by a massive argument. At the same time a fearsome beast is weighing up it’s prey, lurking in the shadows of the forest gaining confidence to attack. Does the grumpy owner of the cottage have anything to do with it and will anyone survive?

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A Werewolf in the Amazon is a 2005 Brazilian supernatural horror film directed by Ivan Cardoso (The Seven Vampires; The Secret of the Mummy; Nosferato in Brazil) from a screenplay by Rubens Francisco Luchetti, Evandro Mesquita and Flávio de Souza. The film’s original title is Um Lobisomem na Amazônia.

Camp Motion Pictures are releasing the film in the US on digital streaming and DVD on October 4, 2016.

Main cast:

Paul Naschy, Danielle Winits, Evandro Mesquita, Karina Bacchi, Nuno Leal Maia, Joana Medeiros, Tony Tornado, Guará Rodrigues, Pedro Neschling, Bruno de Luca, Analu Silveira, Orlando Drummond, Sidney Magal.

Plot:

In search of a powerful hallucinogen, five friends embark on a dangerous journey deep into the Amazon. But a bad trip isn’t the only threat, as they discover when they stumble across the hidden camp of the crazed Dr. Moreau and his murderous animal-human hybrid creations…

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Reviews:

“As expected from Ivan Cardoso, the style is intentionally trashy and much closer to comedy than horror. Most of the humour is provided by the banter between Nuno Leal Maia and Tony Tornado playing a doctor and a cop investigating the murders, but other strange plot turns are amusing too, such as the dramatic musical number literally bursting out of nowhere. There is also plenty of female nudity, of course…” Random Avenger, IMDb

” … most people are going to object to the humor because it’s simply not funny and it takes away from the horror elements but outside of this I think the film offers some cheap thrills. Naschy turns in a good performance in the role of Moreau and the director even allows him a few sex scenes. The supporting actors are actually better than you’d expect in a film like this. All of the actresses have very large breasts and often take their clothes off, which adds to the exploitation nature.” Michael Elliott, IMDb

“Naschy mostly gives speeches in his lab full of bubbling vials and when the material is as lowbrow as this you kinda feel a bit sorry for him. Still, Naschy is Naschy and since everything here is quite tongue in cheek you do respect him for being a professional about it. The rest of the movie is spent with boring elderly teens who do take their clothes off a lot and the bumbling incompetent people in charge of solving the mysterious murders in the jungle.” Joachim Andersson, Letterboxd.com

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‘When a pack of werewolves crash a party, stoner becomes the main course.’

Zombie Werewolves Attack! is a 2009 Canadian comedy horror film co-produced, written, edited and directed by Chris Green. It stars Marcel Legault, Ginette Gaskin, Dany Gehshan, Tyler VanderWallen, Michelle Ferguson, Stefan Bitar, Edsson Morales and Brandon Ludwig.

The film was picked up for distribution by Troma and is currently available on YouTube.

Plot:

A small group of friends are enjoying a party, when it is crashed by hairy lupine uninvited guests. After barely surviving the werewolf attack, the friends learn that most of the people in their town have been killed.

Now, surrounded by townspeople turned into werewolves, they face a difficult dilemma. Can they kill the innocent victims of the wolves, now werewolves themselves, to survive?

Reviews:

There are seemingly no currently available reviews for this film online, so watch it, write one yourself, then post it below in Comments…

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Werewolf Bitches from Outer Space is a 2016 comedy science fiction horror film directed by Troma alum Dylan Greenberg (Amityville: Vanishing Point; Dark Prism) and Reverend Jen Miller.

Shot over a four year period, the independent low-budget film stars Janeane Garofalo, Dave Hill, King Missile’s John S. Hall, and Troma’s own Lloyd Kaufman.

Plot:

Three werewolf women from Uranus, (Reverend Jen, Paige Flash, and Scooter Pie) are sent to Earth by their Chihuahua Queen to rid the planet of all douchebags.

On their quest, they must face off against pretentious art critics (Janeane Garofalo and Dave Hill), the Westboro Baptist Church, Goldman Sachs executives, (John S. Hall and Todd Seavey) and Freegans. Hot on their trail are bumbling officers Fremulum (Faceboy) and Hymen (Darryl Lavare), and Hymen’s daughter Candy (Rachel Trachtenburg) who wants to write an article about the werewolves for her school paper.

Meanwhile, a crazed liquor store employee (Robert Prichard) grows obsessed with the werewolves as the end of the world appears to draw closer…

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Another WolfCop is a 2016 Canadian comedy horror film written and directed by Lowell Dean and a sequel to his WolfCop (2014). It was filmed as WolfCop II.

The film will make its worldwide premiere at the 2016 Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas, this month (date to be confirmed).

Main cast:

Leo Fafard (returning as Lou Garou from the first movie), Amy Matysio (Vampire Dog; The Risen), Jonathan Cherry (House of the Dead; Final Destination 2; They), Yannick Bisson (My Pet Monster), Devery Jacobs (The Dead Zone TV series), Laura Abramsen, Serena Miller, Michael Cleland, Jessica Hinkson, Joel Mamchur, Jennifer Thorp, Kevin Allardyce, Andrea Solski.

Plot:

After saving Woodhaven from a gang of evil reptilian shapeshifters, alcoholic werewolf cop Lou Garou is finding it hard to keep a low profile. Instead, he roams the street at night, gleefully and violently disposing of criminals and stealing boxes of Liquor Donuts causing all sorts of problems for his former-partner-turned-Chief of Police Tina.

Things begin to look up for the loser residents of Woodhaven when a billionaire businessman announces he’s reopening the local brewery to produce Chicken Milk Stout, as well as gifting the town with its very own hockey team, the Darkstars.

However, the unexpected return of an old friend (who now sports a large foul-mouthed mustachioed phallus) and a strip joint bloodbath alert Garou to the rise of something evil to the town…

Production companies:

The Coup Company
Vortex Words Pictures

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‘Looking for love in all the wrong faces’

Halloween Party is a 2012 comedy film co-produced and directed by Linda Palmer from a screenplay co-written with Laree’ Griffith.

The Leomark Studios film premiered on VOD on September 2, 2016.

Main cast:

Elle Newlands, Frank Gangarossa, Chris Pentzell, Christine Blackburn, David Banks, Andrea Leithe, Danny Pardo, Skyler Cooper, Jennifer Popagain, Elina Madison, Anora Lyn, Rachel Sorsa, Daniel Schweiger, Karyss Gonzalez.

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An American Werewolf in London is a 2018 American comedy horror film in active development.

As reported by Deadline, an official remake of John Landis’ classic 1981 comedy horror film has been greenlighted by Universal Pictures, with the director’s son, Max Landis, writing and directing. The Walking Dead‘s David Albert and Robert Kirkman are producing through their Skybound Entertainment company.

The news comes after John Landis and filmmaker Anthony Waller, who directed the inferior sequel An American Werewolf in Paris, came to deal over rights.

Meanwhile, here is the classic transformation scene from the original, accompanied by Creedence Clearwater Revival’s song “Bad Moon Rising”:

‘From the light of the sun, to the darkness of your soul!’

Moon of the Wolf is a 1972 American made-for-television horror film directed by Daniel Petrie (A Howling in the Woods) from a screenplay by Alvin Sapinsley (The Hitchhiker TV series; Night Gallery), based on Leslie H. Whitten’s novel of the same name. It was produced by Everett Chambers and Peter Thomas.

The film was first broadcast on September 26, 1972, on ABC Movie of the Week. It is now considered to be in the public domain.

Main cast:

David Janssen (Francis in the Haunted House; Cult of the Cobra), Barbara Rush (The Eyes of Charles Sand; Night Gallery), Geoffrey Lewis (The Devil’s Rejects; Night of the Comet; Human Experiments), Bradford Dillman (Piranha; Bug; Chosen Survivors), John Beradino, Royal Dano (Ghoulies II; Messiah of Evil; The Dark Half), John Davis Chandler.

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Plot:

In the Louisiana Bayou town of Marsh Island, two farmers discover the mauled, dead body of a local young woman. Sheriff Aaron Whitaker (David Janssen) is called. The victim’s temperamental brother Lawrence Burrifors (Geoffrey Lewis) arrives at the crime scene and jumps to the conclusion that the girl’s lover committed the murder, a man whose name her brother does not know.

The town’s Dr. Drutan (John Beradino) examines the body and pronounces the girl died of a blow to the head. The sheriff investigates the crime and local residents have a variety of theories, including the belief she was killed by wild dogs. A posse forms to track down the wild dogs with little success.

Lawrence Burrifors continues to insist the killer to be his sister’s mysterious lover while the sheriff, in turn, is suspicious of him. The girl’s sick and dying father Hugh Burrifors (Paul R. DeVille), interviewed by the sheriff, warns him of the “rougarou”. The sheriff does not understand the French term…

Reviews:

“A fascinating modern day reworking of the werewolf myth which was filmed on location in primeval Louisiana swamps and is better written, better acted and more genuinely suspenseful than the rash of feature fright pieces which have long since replaced legitimate horror with grisly bloodletting.” The Hollywood Reporter

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“You’ve got your basic made for television werewolf movie from the 1972 here. You know what that entails. It goes on a bit long with the talking, and the scares are strictly of the Night Gallery variety. That said, it’s an effective film with some creepy undertones. If the mood strikes you, it’s an entertaining little movie.” Roman’s Movie Reviews and Musings

“Moon of the Wolf is a well shot, well acted film that seems to have been made on location in an actual swamp or wetlands. The storyline is logical and well-presented and an effort was made to employ real-life lycanthropy folklore (the loup-garou of France) rather than some contrived Hollywood creation. The makeup effects for the werewolf are not particularly high tech, but this should not be expected for a made-for-television film of this period.” JHC3, IMDb

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Choice dialogue:

Dr. Drutan: “…it’s not considered good medical practice to perform autopsies in the middle of swamps surrounded by howling dogs and scratching rustics.”

Filming locations:

Burnside and Clinton, Louisiana

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Space Goat Productions, in partnership with Studiocanal and Creative Licensing, has announced they will be producing a four-issue comic book miniseries and board game based on the 1981 Joe Dante classic horror film, The Howling.

The comic book series will be written by two-time New York Times best-selling author and former Blizzard Entertainment lead writer Micky Neilson. “I can’t even tell you how excited I am to write The Howling comic book! I saw the movie when I was seventeen. It opened an entirely new window into werewolf mythology and left a lifelong impression that influences me to this day,” said Micky Neilson. “If I could choose any license to work on, The Howling is right there at the top of the list. It still stands as my favorite all-time werewolf film. I’ve been obsessed with werewolves ever since the first time I saw it.”

“Micky’s enthusiasm is contagious,” said Space Goat’s Founder and President Shon Bury. “There is a complete dearth of quality werewolf stories on the market. Exploring the lore of The Howling with a writer of Micky’s caliber is going to be a joy ride. Werewolf fans are going to love it.”

Line art for the comic book series will be provided by industry veteran Jason Johnson, who has worked on fan-favorite books like Wetworks, Gen13, and Knight Rider. “I have always had a major fascination with werewolves!” said Johnson. “They were by far the most fearsome of monsters. I will bring this story to life like only a true werewolf connoisseur can. I am also pleased to work with the Shon and the amazing team at Space Goat. They are building something truly special.”

The four-issue comic book mini-series The Howling: Revenge of the Werewolf Queen is scheduled to be released in Summer 2017, and will take place directly after the events of the first film. The release date of the board game will be announced at a later date.

Related: Comics from Hell: The Horror Films That Spawned Comics – article by Daz Lawrence

Coffin-shaped horror wall clocks are currently being sold by Spanish company Villaoscura. Most are horror movie-themed but a few have creepy images from horror fiction, such as Cthulhu, or legends. The clocks are described on their Etsy page as follows:

“Wall clock made of wood table about 3 mm thick, cut coffin shaped. The drawing is a digital image varnished. Approximate measurements are 29.5 cm (12 inches) high and 19.5 cm (7.7 inches approx) wide. Handmade item. Ships worldwide from Spain. $26.59”

1 – Audrey 2 – Little Shop of Horrors
2 – Carrie White – Carrie
3 – Chatterer – Hellraiser

4 – Chucky – Child’s play
5 – Pinhead – Hellraiser
6 – The creature – Creature from the Black Lagoon
7 – Critter – Critters
8 – Damien Thorn – The Omen

9 – Count Dracula – Dracula
10 – Sadako/Samara – The Ring (Ringu)

11 – Monster of Frankenstein – Frankenstein

12 – Freddy Krueger – A nightmare on Elm Street
13 – Ghostface – Scream
14 – Herbert West and Carl Hill – Re-Animator
15 – Sam – Trick’r Treat

16 – Jason Voorhees – Friday the 13th
17 – Toshio and Kayako Saeki – The Grudge (Ju-on)
18 – The Bride – Bride of Frankenstein
19 – Grady Twins – The Shining
20 – Captain Spaulding – House of 1000 corpses – Devils Rejects
21 – Leatherface – Chainsaw massacre
22 – Michael Myers – Halloween
23 – Count Orlok – Nosferatu

24 – Pennywise – It

25 – Jigsaw doll – Saw
26 – Vincent Smith – Horror Motel
27 – Regan MacNeil – The Exorcist

28 – Xenomorph – Alien

29 – Tarman – The return of the living dead

30 – Kurt Barlow – Salem’s Lot
31 – Werewolf – The Wolfman

The clocks are also available in desk size.

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Dances with Werewolves is a 2016 American supernatural horror film written and directed by Dan Golden (Satanic [2006], The Haunted Sea; Burial of the Rats) and Donald F. Glut (Blood Scarab; Countess Dracula’s Orgy of Blood; The Mummy’s Kiss and sequel). The film marks the final appearance of the late Angus Scrimm (Phantasm and sequels; John Dies at the End; I Sell the Dead).

When Cassie flees an abusive relationship, and falls victim to a moon-worshipping 600-year-old Romanian Countess; a troubled paranormal investigator of Native American heritage finds himself in a deadly love triangle with a battered-woman werewolf…

Angus Scrimm’s co-stars include Aqueela Zoll, Tatiana DeKhtyar, Omar Paz Trujillo, Lauren Parkinson, Madeleine Wade, Jacqui Holland, Jim Tavare, and Jane Park Smith.

Select public screenings are being held prior to a 2017 release. The next showing will be at George R.R. Martin’s Jean Cocteau Cinema in Santa Fe, New Mexico on January 27th.

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Talbot County is a 2017 American horror film directed by Bev Land, making his feature debut, from a screenplay co-written with Michael Mordler.

Official synopsis:

When six college kids in a sleepy Southern town are assigned a group project to rediscover a moment in history, one of them sets in motion a horrific fate when he proposes they head into the Georgia backwoods to tackle the legend of Emily Burt, the Talbot County werewolf.

Talbot County is a Hitchcockian tale of horror set in 1986 that delves into a hundred year old fable where our students are met with very real consequences that go beyond any classroom lessons…

Main cast:

Vanessa Angel, Gail O’Grady, Dania Ramirez, Parker Croft, Rebekah Graf, Alina Puscau, Kalia Prescott, Jake Lockett, Craig Tate, Presley Melson.

Filming locations:

Columbus and Upatoi, Georgia, USA

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‘Stranded… but not alone.’

Bonehill Road is an upcoming 2017 American horror film written, edited and directed by Todd Sheets (House of Forbidden Secrets; Zombie Bloodbath and sequels; Bloodthirsty Cannibal Demons).

On the project’s Indiegogo page, Sheets enthuses:

“This is my dream project! My favorite movie monsters have always been werewolves!!! And I have been so disappointed that there seem to be no true, old school, American made werewolf movies coming out these days that capture the spirit of movies like The Howling, An American Werewolf in London or Dog Soldiers. I want to make fans of those movies proud!!! My goal is to make a classic monster movie for our time!!!”

‘Rest in… beast.’

Werewolf – aka Arizona Werewolf – is a 1995 [released January 1996] American supernatural horror film produced and directed by Iranian-born Tony Zarrindast (Red Room; Cat in the Cage) from a screenplay co-written with Brad Hornacher.

Archaeologists working in Arizona find a werewolf skeleton. The ill-tempered foreman, Yuri (played by Jorge Rivero) gets into a fight with his crew: Tommy, Joel, and Bill. In the course of the fight, Tommy is scratched by the werewolf skeleton. This greatly alarms his fellow diggers, especially Joel. The head archaeologist, Noel, details what he knows of werewolf behaviour, which he bases on American Indian mythology.

Tommy is taken to the hospital, where he begins showing signs of lycanthropy, and he eventually turns into a werewolf. Joel and Bill arm themselves with shotguns and silver bullets and succeed in killing their doomed former co-worker.

Meanwhile, a writer named Paul Niles (Federico Cavalli) arrives at a house in suburban Flagstaff that he has inherited. At a party, he is introduced to one of the archaeologists, Natalie Burke (Adrianna Miles) and takes a romantic interest in her. Yuri is jealous and behaves badly, which leads to his expulsion from the party by his boss Noel.

Yuri conspires to create a new werewolf; at the laboratory he drugs a security guard (played by director Tony Zarindast) and injects him with blood he earlier drew from the werewolf, Tommy. However, the creature makes the unfortunate choice of driving home, and having crashed into some oil drums, dies in the ensuing fire.

The following day, Paul visits the lab. He gets into a fight with Yuri, who attacks him with the werewolf skull. Paul is scratched by the skull, and starts showing symptoms of lycanthropy…

Reviews:

“The plot remains what I would call “serviceable” — in other words, it’s adequate if not particularly enchanting or thrilling. Kind of what you might expect a computer to spit out if you fed it the scripts of all the other werewolf movies plus a few X-Files plots and said, “Okay, shake and bake.” But the real problem here is the plethora of bizarre flaws.” Brandt Sponseller, Classic-Horror.com

“Wow, this is all kinds of bad. Slow moving broken up with some hilarious moments of ineptitude. Not to mention, the main stars after Lynch and Estevez all speak English as a second language, and sound stilted and unnatural when they deliver their lines, making for more unintentionally funny moments. What makes it a tough watch though is the long periods of inactivity.”  Matt Poirier, Direct to Video Connoisseur

” …don’t let the unusual sentences distract you from Yuri’s hair styles. His hair grows, shrinks, changes from black to brown to a reddish hue, and rises into a pompadour, and all within ten minutes. Now that’s exciting hair. If only the werewolves had been as interesting and frightening as that hair… Foster on Film

“Another astonishing fact is that there are no less than FOUR werewolves in this movie and none of them are any good.  Seriously, the make-up in this flick makes the werewolf from Teen Wolf Too look like An American Werewolf in London. Not only that, but the ending totally rips off of Wolf as well.” Mitch Lovell, The Video Vacuum

Choice dialogue:

Sam the Keeper: “I just found out that Count Dracula was a faggot.”

Cast and characters:

• Jorge Rivero as Yuri + Conquest
• Richard Lynch as Noel + Dark Fields; Halloween; Mil Mascaras vs. the Aztec Mummy; Good Against Evil
• Federico Cavalli as Paul Miles
• Adrianna Miles as Natalie Burke
• Joe Estevez as Joel
• R.C. Bates as Sam the Keeper
• Randall Oliver as Billy

Filming locations:

Bishop, La Brea Tar Pits and Susanville, California, USA
Glendale Community College in Glendale, California, USA

Trivia:

Werewolf was lampooned in a 1998 episode of movie-mocking television comedy series Mystery Science Theater 3000. It is noteworthy for having been mocked on MST3K only two years after its release.

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Zombillenium is a 2017 French/Belgian animated comedy horror film written and directed by Alexis Ducord and Arthur de Pins, based on the latter’s book. It features the voices of Emmanuel Curtil, Alain Choquet and Kelly Marot.

Zombillenium, the Halloween theme park, happens to be the one place on earth where real monsters can hide in plain sight. When Hector, a human, threatens to disclose the true identity of his employees, the vampire Park Manager has no other choice but to hire him. To see his daughter, Hector must escape from his zombies and werewolves co-workers…

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Peter Sallis (1 February 1921 – 2 June 2017) was an English character actor, mainly known for his work on British television. He gained worldwide fame as the voice of inventor Wallace in the Wallace and Gromit films.

Although born and brought up in Twickenham, Middlesex, his two best remembered roles required him to adopt the accent and mannerisms of a Northerner. In addition to voicing the aforementioned Wallace, he famously played “Cleggy” in TV comedy series Last of the Summer Wine from its 1973 inception until its final episode in 2010, making him the only actor to appear in all 295 episodes!

Most people are unaware that Peter Sallis also played a number of roles in the science fiction and horror genres that began with a Werewolf and ended with a Were-rabbit. Fittingly, Hammer Films set the ball rolling by casting him in a minor role as Don Enrique in their censor-baiting The Curse of the Werewolf (1961).

However, he later had a pivotal Hammer horror role as Samuel Paxton, one of the English Victorian ‘gentlemen’ seeking forbidden pleasures in Taste the Blood of Dracula (1969).

His character ends up gorily staked through the heart, although the only image of his demise available seems to be a double-page spread in Alan Frank’s Horror Films book (Octopus, 1976), so perhaps it was censored from the film itself? Here’s the image:

The same year, Sallis also appeared as Schweitz in the bizarre sci-fi/horror conspiracy thriller hybrid Scream and Scream Again.

In Roald Dahl’s darkly comedic psychological thriller The Night Digger (1971) Sallis essayed the role of an eccentric vicar, whilst Full Circle aka The Haunting of Julia (1977) offered him the chance to be a chivalrous neighbour trying to take Keir Dullea’s oafish character to task (only to be rudely pushed aside).

Meanwhile, his TV appearances included a 1959 adaptation of H.G.Wells’ Invisible Man; BBC Doctor Who story “The Ice Warriors” (1967), in which he playing renegade scientist Elric Penley; Jack Smight’s stately Frankenstein: The True Story (1973); children’s series The Ghosts of Motley Hall (1976–78), in which he played Arnold Gudgin, an estate agent who did not want to see the place fall into the wrong hands; and ghost-hunter Milton Guest in the children’s paranormal series The Clifton House Mystery (1978).

Yet, perhaps Peter Sallis’ most memorable and well-known horror-related role was in the twilight of his lengthy career, when he worked on Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit in 2005.

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‘Jennifer’s mother is having an identity crisis’

My Mom’s a Werewolf is a 1988 American comedy horror film directed by Michael Fischa (Deadtime Stories: Volume 1 and 2; Mascara Diablo; Death Spa) from a screenplay by Mark Pirro (Nudist Colony of the Dead; Curse of the Queerwolf; A Polish Vampire in Burbank). It stars Susan Blakely, John Saxon, Tina Caspary and John Schuck.

The film was released in May 1989 by Crown International Pictures.

Leslie Shaber (Susan Blakely), a sexually frustrated housewife, visits a pet shop to purchase a flea-collar. Unfortunately, the charming owner Harry Thropen (John Saxon) is a werewolf.

Leslie agrees to have lunch with Harry and, smitten by his amorous advances, the pair begin an affair. Harry passionately bites Leslie’s toe and she transforms into a werewolf.

Meanwhile, Leslie desperately tries to hide her increasingly hairy appearance from her bewildered family…

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Reviews:

“The transformation effects are quite terrible, the comedy is pretty flat, but nonetheless it features genre-legend John Saxon as the lycanthropic owner of a pet shop. It’s pure 80’s oddball stuff that’s not great but good fun.” McBastard’s Mausoleum

“It is enjoyable silly, although ultimately lacking in big laugh-out-loud scenes. In the end, it is hard to get too outraged about the lameness of the material – it is after all exactly what one expects from a film with a title like My Mom’s a Werewolf.” Richard Scheib, Moria

“My Mom’s a Werewolf is about as bad as it gets, but the cast was solid, the acting was good, and there was an attempt by the cast to make a good movie. It just didn’t work. It had a great 80’s look to it and had they focused on making a horror movie with comedic elements rather than just a straight out comedy in the end, it would have probably been good.” Geno McGahee, Scared Stiff Reviews

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“The werewolf masks are stiff and unconvincing, and the movie cheats when it comes to transformations, either simply having the fully transformed werewolves appear without seeing their transformation, or the long obsolete technique of dissolving one shot to another. So not only is My Mom’s A Werewolf an unfunny comic spin on a certain aspect of the horror genre that you don’t usually associate with humor, it isn’t even able to respect that horror genre aspect with its serious moments.” Keith Bailey, The Unknown Movies

“There were some things I liked.  I liked John Saxon’s performance. And the movie geek character who reads Famous Monsters, Fangoria, and Gorezone and has posters from other Crown International pictures like Galaxina and Prime Evil on her wall. And of course, the 80’s fashions were appropriately cheesy. Other than that, My Mom’s a Werewolf is a dog of a film.” Mitch Lovell, The Video Vacuum

“Saxon, along with the film’s other stars, can be given a good deal of credit for overcoming the film’s lackluster execution. They all give funny performances, and Caspary is even likable enough to make a fairly predictable final joke quite funny.” Steve Miller, Terror Titans

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“It’s obvious that the film was never suppose to be taken seriously as we have a lot of overacting, terrible costumes and cringe worthy dialog. Thankfully every actor treats it lightly with Susan Blakely making it somewhat likable. She’s obviously trying the best she can to make the movie at least seem quirky enough to stand out. There’s no gore scenes and the werewolf costumes are laughable.” Cult Film Finder

“It’s basically a low-rent version of Fright Night (not to be confused with Night Fright). If I had been eight years old when I watched this, I would’ve enjoyed it. But I wasn’t, so I didn’t.” Kevin Burns, The Video Basement

Cast and characters:

• Susan Blakely as Leslie Shaber (Grizzly Park; Annihilator)
• John Saxon as Harry Thropen (Death House; Elm Street; Queen of Blood; et al)
• Tina Caspary as Jennifer Shaber (Teen Witch)
• John Schuck as Howard Shaber (Demon Knight; The Munsters Today; The Halloween That Almost Wasn’t)
• Diana Barrows as Stacey Pubah
• Ruth Buzzi as Madame Gypsy
• Marilyn McCoo as Celia Celica
• Marcia Wallace as Peggy
• Geno Silva as Dr. Rod Rodriguez

Wikipedia | IMDb | Image credits: Cult Film Finder | Scared Stiff Reviews | Terror Titans