Ep. #123 - WereWolf Halloween!
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The episode explores the evolution of werewolves in cinema through a comparison of five landmark films.
For this year's Halloween episode we thought we unleash our inner beasts to track the evolution of the werewolf across a century of cinema! This episode is a deep-dive comparison of five landmark films that shaped the lycanthropic curse on screen.We jump to the legendary 1981 FX Showdown, pitting The Howling's aggressive, full-body practical effects against the painful, black-comedy genius of An American Werewolf in London's transformations. We debate which film delivered the most jaw-dropping practical effects and defined the look of 80s werewolf.We then analyze Universal's The Wolf Man (1941), exploring how Lon Chaney Jr. established the universal horror archetypes of the cursed victim, the full moon, and the silver bullet while we contrast it with attempts to bring the wolf back into the modern era, contrasting the Gothic-period spectacle of The Wolfman (2010) and then give our honest opinion on the latest iteration of the wolf man with the psychological thriller take of The Wolf Man (2025).Join us as we discuss the horror, the heart, and the sheer technical artistry that goes into transforming a man into a monster—and decide which hairy hide takes home the "Golden Howl…
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