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One of the marketing hooks for 1992’s Sleepwalkers was that it was the first time Stephen King had written something directly for the screen. His previous screenplay credits — Creepshow, Cat’s Eye, Silver Bullet, Maximum Overdrive, and Pet Sematary — were all adaptations of existing short stories or novels. Of course, it’s entirely possible King had taken a stab at writing Sleepwalkers in prose…

This month’s Full Moon Feature is brought to you by the letter H, as in Hammer House of Horror, a television anthology series that ran for 13 episodes in 1980. Arriving midway through its run, Children of the Full Moon has a bit of a folk horror feel, somewhat akin to 1970’s Robin Redbreast. In that Play for Today, a newly single career woman moves to the country and finds herself at the center…

The one Blue Moon of 2026 is upon us, so to celebrate the second full moon of May, I’ve chosen Paul Naschy’s second werewolf movie of 1972. (The first, The Fury of the Wolf Man, was put out on Blu-ray by Scorpion Releasing in 2020, but I didn’t bother picking it up because frankly, it’s not very good.) As my prior exposure to Dr. Jekyll and the Werewolf was via one of Mill Creek Entertainment’s…

As this year marks the 45th anniversary of Joe Dante’s The Howling and John Landis’s An American Werewolf in London (among others), I was invited to appear on the Horror 101 with Dr. AC podcast to discuss both of them. (When the episode goes live next week, I will be sure to double back and link it here.) Doing my due diligence, I gave The Howling a re-watch with the commentary by Dante and…

Through a quirk of timing and the 25th anniversary of its Japanese release (on April 21, 2001), I am covering Vampire Hunter D: Bloodust on April Fools’ Day, which coincides with this year’s Pink Moon. But fear not, fellow lycanthrope fans. I have no intention of joking about abandoning werewolf movies and switching over to vampires full-time. Angela would shut this site down before she let that…

While Paul Naschy had introduced his signature werewolf character Waldemar Daninsky in 1968’s La marca del Hombre Lobo — inexplicably released in the US as Frankenstein’s Bloody Terror — and included him in the monster menagerie Los monstruous del terror a.k.a. Assignment Terror in 1970, he really got into the lycanthrope groove with 1971’s La noche de Walpurgis. That went out variously as…

Three years before famed Mexican wrestlers Santo and Blue Demon tangled with Dracula and the Wolf Man, they teamed up to fight a whole array of supernatural creatures. In 1970’s Santo el enmascarado de plata y Blue Demon contra los monstruos, they not only have to contend with El Vampiro (a generic one) and El Hombre Lobo, but also La Momia, El Ciclope, and Franquestain (yes, that’s how they…

Considering Charles Band named his production company Full Moon, it’s curious that he has largely shied away from making werewolf movies. One of the few exceptions (along with 1990’s Meridian, which he directed himself) is 1998’s Werewolf Reborn!, produced as part of Full Moon’s abortive “Filmonsters!” series. Slated to appear alongside stories about Dracula and the Mummy, Werewolf Reborn! and…

According to its opening title screen, 1985’s Vampire Hunter D “takes place in the distant future where mutants and demons slither through a world of darkness.” It is a time ruled over by the Nobility, a race of vampires descended from Dracula himself, though he is never named outright. (Most often he is referred to as their “Sacred Ancestor.”) In addition to the mutants they hold sway over, the…

This month’s Full Moon Feature is one I’m not going to dwell too long on because the wolfman content is minimal — and ultimately toothless. A product of the post-Roger Corman New World Pictures, 1985’s Transylvania 6-5000 is of a piece with the company’s previous PG-rated horror comedies The Private Eyes (1980) and Saturday the 14th (1981), which were similarly anemic in the horror and comedy…

Witches and werewolves don’t often mix, but they did in two television projects aimed at younger audiences made seven years apart. First came the Canadian animated special Witch’s Night Out from 1978. The sequel to 1974’s The Gift of Winter, which features a pre-SNL Gilda Radner and Dan Aykroyd in its voice cast, Witch’s Night Out brought Radner back to play a Witch who’s peeved that she doesn’t…

Howling in shadows / Living in a lunar spell / He finds his heaven / Spewing from the mouth of Hell Unlike his fellow hard rocker Alice Cooper, Ozzy Osbourne never starred or made a cameo in a werewolf movie — though he did make a memorable “special appearance” in 1986’s Trick or Treat as an evangelist and moral crusader being interviewed on TV about “rock pornography.” Still, the late singer’s…

Jean Cocteau’s La Belle et la Bête was not the first screen adaptation of Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont’s story — there are at least two from the silent era that are wholly or partially lost — but the 1946 film set the standard for most that came after. These include Disney’s animated feature and its pointless live-action remake, as well as the French version I covered in 2017. Some notable…

In the wake of the success of its first Beach Party movie, released in the summer of 1963, American International Pictures greenlit two sequels in quick succession, both also directed by William Asher. The reason they’re of interest to this site is because both feature random cameos by wolfmen that have no bearing whatsoever on their plots, but that’s par for the course with these movies, which…

This month’s Full Moon Feature again comes courtesy of Rifftrax, which decided one half-assed Rob Roy werewolf movie wasn’t enough for them, which I suppose is the same reasoning Roy had for following 2006’s Lycan Colony with the search-engine-challenging American Werewolf last year. Now, I understand why Roy would hold An American Werewolf in London in such high esteem — it is, after all, my…

For this month’s Full Moon Feature, I’m heading to Brazil for the 2015 horror anthology As Fábulas Negras, which translates to Dark Fables or The Black Fables (the title it appears under on Tubi). The work of four directors who tackled different facets of Brazilian folklore, its most high-profile participant is José Mojica Marins, creator of the macabre character Coffin Joe, but not the director…

When one reaches a movie-watching milestone, one hopes the movie in question will be worthy of being memorialized in such a fashion. Well, I just watched my 200th werewolf movie and it was 2006’s no-budget shot-on-video shitfest Lycan Colony, so as Hans Landa would say, that’s a Bingo! The work of single-minded multi-hyphenate Rob Roy — who also wrote and directed last year’s barely…