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Full Moon Features: The Adventures of Hercules (1985)
For this month's Full Moon Features column, Craig J. Clark goes adventuring with Lou Ferrigno's Hercules.
[Note: Inspired by Dobes’s comprehensive list of Werewolves of the 80s and its attendant screencaps repository, I’m covering movies I previously passed over because they don’t feature werewolves, per se. As long as they have wolfish enough beast men, though, I’m considering them fair game…]
In the mid-’80s, erstwhile Incredible Hulk Lou Ferrigno starred in a pair of Hercules pictures for Menahem…
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Full Moon Features: The Barbarians (1987)
This month's Full Moon Feature finds Craig J. Clark contemplating how he came to watch the 1987 sword-and-sorcery flick The Barbarians.
[Note: Inspired by Dobes’s comprehensive list of Werewolves of the 80s and its attendant screencaps repository, I’m covering movies I previously passed over because they don’t feature werewolves, per se. As long as they have wolfish enough beast men, though, I’m considering them fair game…]
Following in the furry footsteps of last month’s Full Moon Feature, I’m continuing my survey of ’80s…
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Full Moon Features: Conquest (1983)
For this month's Full Moon Feature, Craig J. Clark tackles Lucio Fulci's 1983 sticks-and-stones flick Conquest.
[Note: Inspired by Dobes’s comprehensive list of Werewolves of the 80s and its attendant screencaps repository, I’m going to start covering movies I previously passed over because they don’t feature werewolves, per se. As long as they have wolfish enough beast men, though, I’m considering them fair game. Hence, this month’s entry…]
Okay, so there’s this kid, see, and his name is Ilias (Andrea…
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Full Moon Features: Werewolf (1987)
Craig J. Clark laments the Shout! Factory release of '80s TV series Werewolf the world was denied in this month's Full Moon Feature.
It’s been nearly 15 years since Shout! Factory had to scuttle its proposed release of the ’80s TV series Werewolf due to unforeseen music rights issues they weren’t able to resolve, but the disappointment is still palpable. Boasting werewolf characters designed by the great Rick Baker (although the day-to-day makeup, effects and transformations were left to Greg Cannom), the series wasn’t enough…
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Full Moon Feature(tte)s: Mazey Day (2023)
Craig J. Clark closes out 2023 with a "Full Moon Feature(tte)" on the Black Mirror episode "Mazey Day" -- and makes a resolution for 2024.
I’m not big on New Year’s resolutions, but as I’m the person keeping the proverbial lights on here at Werewolf News, I hereby resolve to watch and review more werewolf movies in the coming year. That would be a breeze if they were all 40 minutes long like Mazey Day, an episode from the latest season of Netflix’s Black Mirror which is — spoiler alert — about a werewolf. (I see no reason to be coy…
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Full Moon Features: Orgy of the Dead (1965)
Full Moon Features: Craig J. Clark witnesses Ed Wood's Orgy of the Dead (1965)
Do not be alarmed by the title of this month’s Full Moon Feature: Orgy of the Dead was made in 1965, so it’s nowhere near as risque at it sounds. It was also written by Edward D. Wood, Jr., based on his own novel, so there’s little chance of anyone finding it at all erotic in spite of the bevy of nearly naked women that are made to dance for the pleasure of Criswell, the Emperor of the Night (and…
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Full Moon Features: Wolf Manor (2022) & Wolf Hollow (2023)
Full Moon Features: Craig J. Clark makes it a double with 2022's Wolf Manor and 2023's Wolf Hollow
Regular readers of this column may have noticed it has been highly irregularly of late. The last review I posted was for 1988’s Cellar Dweller in July, three full moons ago. The one before that was Santo vs. las lobas in May, and the one before that was Viking Wolf in February. This is not due to a shortage of werewolf movies — more are being made all the time, and I have a backlog 30 titles deep…
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Full Moon Features: Cellar Dweller (1988)
For this month's Full Moon Feature, @Hooded_Werewolf delves into the depths of Empire Pictures' back catalogue to seek out 1988's Cellar Dweller.
The centerpiece of Arrow Video’s “Enter the Video Store: Empire of Screams” boxed set of five Empire Pictures released between 1984 and 1989 is a little number called Cellar Dweller, and while the dweller of said cellar isn’t your typical werewolf, it has enough lycanthropic traits that I’m willing to write it up here. “It’s part werewolf and vampire, demon and ghost,” the protagonist reads from…
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Full Moon Features: Santo vs. las lobas (1976)
Since this month's full moon lands on Cinco de Mayo, @Hooded_Werewolf went south of the border for 1976's Santo vs. las lobas.
By the time he starred in 1976’s Santo vs. la lobas a.k.a. Santo vs. the She-Wolves, the silver-masked Mexican wrestler had been in 45 films in the space of 15 years. In many of those he faced a range of supernatural foes including zombies, vampire women, witches, mummies, werewolves, La Llorona, and even Drácula and the Wolf Man. Consequently, his attitude in this film when he’s first approached…
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Full Moon Features: Viking Wolf (2022)
Full Moon Features: With Netflix's VIKING WOLF premiering just in time for the full moon, @Hooded_Werewolf investigates this Norwegian take on werewolf lore.
After taking last month off, we are back with a werewolf film as hot off the presses as you can get. Norway’s Vikingulven, which has been Anglicized to Viking Wolf by Netflix, has the air of novelty about it thanks to its Nordic setting, but looking past the surface, co-writer/director Stig Svendsen follows the genre’s trappings without too many deviations.
The film starts off promisingly with a…
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The “Horny Werewolf” Browser Extension Is Real and I Made It
I made it almost six years ago, in fact! But hang on, let’s get the details down in a new post.
In 2008, writer Warren Ellis made a brief blog post about how Valentine’s Day was a bad Christian remix of roman fertility festival Lupercalia
Happy Valentine’s Day to all. And to those who hate the day, I say this: Valentine’s Day is a Christian corruption of a pagan festival involving werewolves, blood and fucking. So wish people a happy Horny Werewolf Day and see what happens.
I liked this concept when I learned about it, so I made web browser extensions for Chrome and Firefox that traverse the text of every web page you visit, searching for variations of the phrase “Valentine’s Day”, and turns them into “Horny Werewolf Day”. You can install them here:
“Valentines For Werewolves” for Google Chrome
“Valentines For Werewolves” for Firefox
People install it, laugh for a while in February, then forget about it, and then one day in August they see something that makes them go “???!!???” and then “oh yeah lmao” and that’s the best. Whenever someone shows me a screenshot of some benign web site that says “Horny Werewolf Day gifts” or “spoil your special Horny Werewolf with a delicious treat” it brings me more delight than I can fully describe.
Here are some important things to know:
Right now it only works for sure on desktop versions of Chrome and Firefox. I will make a Safari version soon. Apple has a whole process involving Xcode that I need to commit to figuring out.
If you install it and you like it and you feel like thanking me, here’s my Ko-fi . Enough support will probably motivate me to figure out how to get the code working on Android versions of Firefox and Chrome.
It needs access to all of the text on every web page you visit so it can look for text to change, but it does not store or send any of that text anywhere. It is literally 18 lines of Javascript regular expressions and for-loops that never leave your computer.
If you like werewolves you will probably like the digital anthology I edit, Werewolves Versus. There are 10 issues so far, including one thematically linked to this browser extension: Werewolves Versus: Romance.
I always love seeing screenshots of this extension in action so please hit me up!
“Valentines For Werewolves” for Google Chrome
“Valentines For Werewolves” for Firefox
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Full Moon Features: Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
Full Moon Features: Resident lycanthropologist @Hooded_Werewolf wolfs out over Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
I was too young to catch any of the films from the ’80s werewolf boom on first run (though I did see Teen Wolf and The Monster Squad on television plenty of times to make up for it). Accordingly, I had to wait until the following decade to see my first werewolf on the big screen, an honor that didn’t fall to Jack Nicholson in Mike Nichols’s Wolf, but rather to Gary Oldman in Francis Ford…
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Full Moon Features: Dracula, Prisoner of Frankenstein (1972)
Full Moon Features: @Hooded_Werewolf marks the 50th anniversary of Jesús Franco's 1972 monster mash Dracula, Prisoner of Frankenstein
Thanks to the efforts of Paul Naschy, Spanish horror cinema of the late ’60s and early ’70s was awash in films pitting horror icons like Dracula, Frankenstein’s Monster, and the Wolf Man against each other. One of the trend’s bandwagon-hoppers was Jesús Franco, who was in the habit of cranking out eight films a year on average in all kinds of genres and under multiple pseudonyms. Hardly a recipe…
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Full Moon Features: The Munsters & Werewolf by Night (2022)
Full Moon Features: With two new offerings for the spooky season, @Hooded_Werewolf drops in on The Munsters and Werewolf by Night.
This year’s Spooky Season (which, like Christmas, seems to start earlier and earlier all the time) has brought with it two werewolf-related streaming premieres. The more prominent of the two is the long-awaited introduction of ’70s-vintage lycanthrope Jack Russell, a.k.a. Werewolf by Night, to the Marvel Studiosverse, but the first out of the gate was Rob Zombie’s revamp of corny ’60s sitcom The…
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Full Moon Features: Hard Rock Nightmare (1988)
The Harvest Moon is upon us, making this the perfect time to head up to the family farm, where @Hooded_Werewolf finds himself trapped trapped in 1988's Hard Rock Nightmare.
“Some call him Lucifer. Some call him Satan. I call him Master.” These words are spoken over a black screen. Their speaker is then revealed to the jocular grandfather of a petrified boy named Jim, who’s rooted to the spot while Grandpa tells him, “Creatures who drink blood and can become wolves are real!” His joshing has dire consequences, though, because after he declares himself a “creature of…
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Full Moon Features: Wilczyca (1983)
For this month's Full Moon Feature, @Hooded_Werewolf investigates the folk-horror trappings of Polish werewolf tale Wilczyca (1983)
Some things are such a novelty that it’s noteworthy when one encounters them in the wild. A Polish werewolf film is such a thing. A werewolf film set in a wintry landscape is another. Both are combined in 1983’s Wilczyca, also known as The Wolf or She-Wolf, which was released by Severin Films late last year as part of its well-curated folk horror collection, All the Haunts Be Ours. (It’s also…
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Full Moon Features: Wild Country (2005)
This month's Full Moon Feature finds @Hooded_Werewolf in some tepid company in 2005's Wild Country
If the ever-dwindling number of halfway decent werewolf movies I have to choose from is anything to go by, it won’t be long before I run out of Full Moon Features to write about. (Considering I’ve watched 172 of the cursed things over the past 14 years, it’s a miracle I’m still finding ones that are even watchable.) This month’s selection is Wild Country, a wee wisp of a film (it runs 67 minutes,…
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