list http://www.spout.com/ Recent community activity around An American Werewolf in London on Spout Copyright 2005-9 Spout, LLC Spout RSS http://www.spout.com/images/SpoutLogoRSS.jpg http://www.spout.com/ 136 30 http://www.spout.com/films/An_American_Werewolf_in_London/1212/default.aspx Title: An American Werewolf in London
Year: 1981
Director: John Landis
Plot: While wandering the English moors on vacation, college yanks David (David Naughton) and Jack (Griffin Dunne) happen upon a quaint pub with a mysterious patronage who warn them not to leave the road when walking after dark. Irreverent of such advice as characters in horror films always are, the two decide to find a short cut....David wakes up in the hospital with a nasty bite wound to his shoulder; the freshly deceased, and rapidly decomposing, Jack arrives soon after to deliver the grim news that, unless he commits suicide, David will become a werewolf when the moon is full. David dismisses the encounter as a hallucination, but all indicators point to lycanthrope; evenings of barking and bloodletting follow closely behind. While the story is thin and much of the tongue-in-cheek humor is overdone, there are plenty of genuine jolts thanks to makeup guru Rick Baker's eye-popping special effects. The werewolf, resembling a cross between a bear and a wolverine, appears frighteningly real, and, given the fantastic premise, the gore is most convincing (although surprisingly and refreshingly scant). The hospital dream sequences are creative, and the scenes in which the werewolf runs rampant through downtown London are particularly good. In all, An American Werewolf in London is an original, atmospheric film that manages both to scare and amuse. While dismissed by most American critics upon its release, the film managed to secure a place in the annals of American cinema when Baker won an Academy Award for his amazing effects and creature designs. ~ Jeremy Beday, All Movie Guide
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]]>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 19:09:37 GMTAn American Werewolf in London1981John LandisWhile wandering the English moors on vacation, college yanks David (<a href="/players/P____51961/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>David Naughton</a>) and Jack (<a href="/players/P____88456/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Griffin Dunne</a>) happen upon a quaint pub with a mysterious patronage who warn them not to leave the road when walking after dark. Irreverent of such advice as characters in horror films always are, the two decide to find a short cut....David wakes up in the hospital with a nasty bite wound to his shoulder; the freshly deceased, and rapidly decomposing, Jack arrives soon after to deliver the grim news that, unless he commits suicide, David will become a werewolf when the moon is full. David dismisses the encounter as a hallucination, but all indicators point to lycanthrope; evenings of barking and bloodletting follow closely behind. While the story is thin and much of the tongue-in-cheek humor is overdone, there are plenty of genuine jolts thanks to makeup guru <a href="/players/P____80455/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Rick Baker</a>'s eye-popping special effects. The werewolf, resembling a cross between a bear and a wolverine, appears frighteningly real, and, given the fantastic premise, the gore is most convincing (although surprisingly and refreshingly scant). The hospital dream sequences are creative, and the scenes in which the werewolf runs rampant through downtown London are particularly good. In all, An American Werewolf in London is an original, atmospheric film that manages both to scare and amuse. While dismissed by most American critics upon its release, the film managed to secure a place in the annals of American cinema when Baker won an Academy Award for his amazing effects and creature designs. ~ Jeremy Beday, All Movie Guide24Tag Target (>10)54633http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/t88890ci9vb.jpghttp://www.spout.com/films/An_American_Werewolf_in_London/1212/default.aspxFilm http://www.spout.com/blogs/spoutblog/archive/2008/12/23/38761.aspx Post By: SpoutBlog
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Body: Should special effects only be used to service a film’s story, or is it perfectly fine for movies to feature extraneous spectacle? That’s a debate that comes up often among cineastes, but ultimately there’s room for both functions. Sometimes, in cases like Jurassic Park and The Matrix, both categories of effects may even faultlessly coexist in the same film. Yet there is one kind of effects employment that’s intolerable to all film-loving parties: the gratuitous exploitation for the sole purpose of brazen gimmickry. It’s this kind of effects work that goes beyond spectacle. It’s not so much a show as a show off. For one example of this cinematic sin check out Karina’s review of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, in which she references a scene featuring an inessential and irrelevant rocket launch in the background of an otherwise intimate moment between two lovers on a sailboat. Actually, that’s apparently only a minor citation in a “a film about the feat of its own whiz-bang, Frankensteinian digital imagery, drunk on its own accomplishment to an extent that feels quasi-ethical.” Hardly the first movie to commit such a crime, sure, but Benjamin Button seems to be the most thoroughly guilty exploiter since Forrest Gump (both films, incidentally, were scripted by Eric Roth). So, in (dis)honor of Roth’s repeat offense, let’s take a short look at the worst exploitations of special effects in the last 15 years: Forrest Gump (1994): digital erasure of Gary Sinise’s legs Only a year earlier, we had marveled at Jurassic Park’s showcase of computer effects as the ultimate in movie magic. Then, Robert Zemeckis crushed our imaginations by turning CG into a means for mere tricks. The composites were cool enough, but Zemeckis had to go one step further and flaunt Lt. Dan’s lack of legs, just because he could. Was the effect neat? Yeah, for a minute, but it was also completely unnecessary. Star Wars prequels (1999-2005): computer-generated Yoda Some people believe George Lucas’ greatest effects foul to be Jar-Jar Binks. Others cite his awful CG Jabba in the 1997 special edition of A New Hope. Both were cheap exploitations, no doubt about it, but Lucas’ worst employment of CG was turning Yoda into a digitally rendered character. This isn’t just another excuse for us to defend and celebrate Muppets, either. Rather, it’s a defense and celebration of The Empire Strikes Back, which is a perfect film and is such despite its inclusion of a puppet version of Yoda. Why didn’t Lucas go the extra yard and turn the droids and Wookies into CG characters? Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004): computer-generated werewolf One of the most hated uses of CG, particularly to horror fans, is for werewolf effects. After all, the greatest-looking werewolf of all time, from An American Werewolf in London, was achieved with makeup rather than a computer. Yet just because computer effects exist, filmmakers seemingly attempt to better Rick Baker’s Oscar-winning technique with CG werewolves in movies like Van Helsing, Cursed and this, the third installment in the Harry Potter franchise. Or, is it that computer effects are just cheaper than makeup? Because they do indeed look cheap. Prisoner of Azkaban may have been nominated for a Visual Effects Oscar, but it probably lost because of Professor Lupin’s cartoonish transformation into a werewolf. Even if you believe Azkaban to be the best film in the franchise, you have to admit it could have been all the more exceptional had Alfonso Cuaron only put David Thewlis in the makeup chair and not into the hard drive. The Day After Tomorrow (2004): computer-generated wolves If there’s one thing even lamer than using CG for werewolves, it’s using CG for wolves. The former is at least an imaginary creature that requires some kind of effects to fabricate its existence. The latter can be found at a zoo, in the wild, or through an animal wrangler. It’s not even like the three wolves in The Day After Tomorrow, which appear in one minor sequence, had to seem preternatural like the dogs in Hulk. Apparently there were actually real wolves initially used, but they weren’t acceptable to Roland Emmerich, and so digital wolves were added later in post production. But did they have to be entirely substituted for? Or was Emmerich on a computer-generated power trip? Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008): computer-generated monkeys You’re probably not shocked to see another George Lucas production here. There’s some disagreement over which was the worst part of this latest Indiana Jones film, the “nuke the fridge” sequence or the moment when Shia LaBeouf swings through the jungle with a bunch of CG monkeys. The former scene (pictured, since the internet seems to be pretending the monkey scene doesn’t exist) was certainly the downturn of the franchise, but the latter was its greatest offense. Had it not been in the film — and it truly could have been avoided — a lot of people might have forgiven Lucas and Steven Spielberg for the movie’s other faults. But as South Park bluntly put it, those guys raped their character. And they also raped and exploited the whole visual effects industry while they were at it. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog
]]>Tue, 23 Dec 2008 17:00:52 GMTSpoutBlogSpoutBlog on spout.com12/23/2008 12:00:52 PMShould special effects only be used to service a film’s story, or is it perfectly fine for movies to feature extraneous spectacle? That’s a debate that comes up often among cineastes, but ultimately there’s room for both functions. Sometimes, in cases like Jurassic Park and The Matrix, both categories of effects may even faultlessly coexist in the same film. Yet there is one kind of effects employment that’s intolerable to all film-loving parties: the gratuitous exploitation for the sole purpose of brazen gimmickry. It’s this kind of effects work that goes beyond spectacle. It’s not so much a show as a show off. For one example of this cinematic sin check out Karina’s review of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, in which she references a scene featuring an inessential and irrelevant rocket launch in the background of an otherwise intimate moment between two lovers on a sailboat. Actually, that’s apparently only a minor citation in a “a film about the feat of its own whiz-bang, Frankensteinian digital imagery, drunk on its own accomplishment to an extent that feels quasi-ethical.” Hardly the first movie to commit such a crime, sure, but Benjamin Button seems to be the most thoroughly guilty exploiter since Forrest Gump (both films, incidentally, were scripted by Eric Roth). So, in (dis)honor of Roth’s repeat offense, let’s take a short look at the worst exploitations of special effects in the last 15 years: Forrest Gump (1994): digital erasure of Gary Sinise’s legs Only a year earlier, we had marveled at Jurassic Park’s showcase of computer effects as the ultimate in movie magic. Then, Robert Zemeckis crushed our imaginations by turning CG into a means for mere tricks. The composites were cool enough, but Zemeckis had to go one step further and flaunt Lt. Dan’s lack of legs, just because he could. Was the effect neat? Yeah, for a minute, but it was also completely unnecessary. Star Wars prequels (1999-2005): computer-generated Yoda Some people believe George Lucas’ greatest effects foul to be Jar-Jar Binks. Others cite his awful CG Jabba in the 1997 special edition of A New Hope. Both were cheap exploitations, no doubt about it, but Lucas’ worst employment of CG was turning Yoda into a digitally rendered character. This isn’t just another excuse for us to defend and celebrate Muppets, either. Rather, it’s a defense and celebration of The Empire Strikes Back, which is a perfect film and is such despite its inclusion of a puppet version of Yoda. Why didn’t Lucas go the extra yard and turn the droids and Wookies into CG characters? Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004): computer-generated werewolf One of the most hated uses of CG, particularly to horror fans, is for werewolf effects. After all, the greatest-looking werewolf of all time, from An American Werewolf in London, was achieved with makeup rather than a computer. Yet just because computer effects exist, filmmakers seemingly attempt to better Rick Baker’s Oscar-winning technique with CG werewolves in movies like Van Helsing, Cursed and this, the third installment in the Harry Potter franchise. Or, is it that computer effects are just cheaper than makeup? Because they do indeed look cheap. Prisoner of Azkaban may have been nominated for a Visual Effects Oscar, but it probably lost because of Professor Lupin’s cartoonish transformation into a werewolf. Even if you believe Azkaban to be the best film in the franchise, you have to admit it could have been all the more exceptional had Alfonso Cuaron only put David Thewlis in the makeup chair and not into the hard drive. The Day After Tomorrow (2004): computer-generated wolves If there’s one thing even lamer than using CG for werewolves, it’s using CG for wolves. The former is at least an imaginary creature that requires some kind of effects to fabricate its existence. The latter can be found at a zoo, in the wild, or through an animal wrangler. It’s not even like the three wolves in The Day After Tomorrow, which appear in one minor sequence, had to seem preternatural like the dogs in Hulk. Apparently there were actually real wolves initially used, but they weren’t acceptable to Roland Emmerich, and so digital wolves were added later in post production. But did they have to be entirely substituted for? Or was Emmerich on a computer-generated power trip? Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008): computer-generated monkeys You’re probably not shocked to see another George Lucas production here. There’s some disagreement over which was the worst part of this latest Indiana Jones film, the “nuke the fridge” sequence or the moment when Shia LaBeouf swings through the jungle with a bunch of CG monkeys. The former scene (pictured, since the internet seems to be pretending the monkey scene doesn’t exist) was certainly the downturn of the franchise, but the latter was its greatest offense. Had it not been in the film — and it truly could have been avoided — a lot of people might have forgiven Lucas and Steven Spielberg for the movie’s other faults. But as South Park bluntly put it, those guys raped their character. And they also raped and exploited the whole visual effects industry while they were at it. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog http://www.spout.com/groups/Filmgaming/Re_MADAGASCAR_2_Giveaway_Win_a_prize_pack_or_mo/563/37258/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: Spout-Contests
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Body: Today's winner (November 12) is: Seven-ate-9. Congrats! Top 3 talking animals: 3) Lucky (Norm Macdonald in the Dr. Doolittle remake) 2) Talking "Goodnight Ned" turtle (The Three Amigos) - How funny to learn that this voice was done by Carl La Fong who did stunts in An American Werewolf in London (1981) 1) Henry Limpet (Don Knotts in The Incredible Mr. Limpet (1964) That'll do pig, that'll do.
]]>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:19:02 GMTSpout-ContestsFilmgaming11/12/2008 4:19:02 PM Today's winner (November 12) is: Seven-ate-9. Congrats! Top 3 talking animals: 3) Lucky (Norm Macdonald in the Dr. Doolittle remake) 2) Talking "Goodnight Ned" turtle (The Three Amigos) - How funny to learn that this voice was done by Carl La Fong who did stunts in An American Werewolf in London (1981) 1) Henry Limpet (Don Knotts in The Incredible Mr. Limpet (1964) That'll do pig, that'll do. http://www.spout.com/blogs/spoutblog/archive/2008/7/25/33094.aspx Post By: SpoutBlog
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Post Date: 7/25/2008 6:01:22 PM
Body: Legendary six-time-Oscar-winning make-up artist Rick Baker joined stars Benicio Del Toro and Emily Blunt to bring us the first footage of Universal’s new version of The Wolfman. And it’s a period piece. Highlights: - The origins of the remake stem from Del Toro’s Lon Chaney Jr. fandom. - It looks like “Francis Ford Coppola’s The Wolfman” - Of course, Anthony Hopkins would be more welcome as Van Helsing again - At least it will likely be R-rated, as it looks quite bloody - Baker honors Stan Winston by labeling his death “the end of an era” - Blunt is apparently into two-headed dudes Check out the full liveblog transcript after the jump. 5:31 - Another look at the Wolfman clip: They’re rolling the clip one more time, and now I can see how bloody it is. Brains, guts, carnage. You only see a couple of extremely quick flashes of the Wolfman. It’s very gothic looking, lots of blacks and browns. Full costumes, long takes. It’s almost like Francis Ford Coppola’s The Wolfman. Anthony Hopkins comes up on his son, post-transformation and rasps “You’ve done terrible things.” Apparently he gets caught and is strapped down in a medical observatory while he transforms. We’re out, and it’s not even a full moon 5:29 - Extra guests and more Q&A: Rick Baker brings Dave and Lou Elsey up on stage and introduces them, as they helped out with the creature effects. They’ve worked on Farscape and Star Wars. A pair of twins (they asked a question during the Watchmen panel) get up and ask what the “most fun part of working on the movie was.” Del Toro says, “Uh, the chase.” Rick Baker says, “Is that a two headed man?” and Emily Blunt says, “Hi… what are you doing later?” So now we know all about her secret sexual proclivities. 5:25 - Regarding CGI and “the end of an era”: While it might be del Toro in a costume, it looks like they’ll be using CGI to show the Wolfman’s transformation. Baker is hoping they’ll do something like the physical transformations in An American Werewolf in London. Rick Baker is waxing poetic about Stan Winston and all the contributions he made to the art. He calls his death “The end of an era.” 5:22 - Regarding The Wolfman’s rating: “Will this movie be rated R?” Del Toro: “I don’t think we know yet…” Rick Baker chimes in with “I think based on this trailer it looks like it’ll be rated R.” 5:20 - The Wolfman Q&A, Question #2: Rick Baker gets asked if it’s more challenging to do makeup effects on something like this or working on Norbit, and he said working on human character faces, like Eddie Murphy’s Mr. Wong character, was much more challenging. “But I’ve been making myself up as the Wolfman since I was 10 years old.” Rick Baker quips “Look, it’s Criss Angel!” — the next kid asking a question is wearing some sort of street thug wear and a black bandana. And he looks like Criss Angel… at age 10. Emily Blunt said “I was really terrified during the chase scenes. I was literally running. While wearing a corset.” Del Toro leers: “And I just had to chase her.” Del Toro geekily giggles and admits that he’s a big fan of both Lon Chaney and Lon Chaney Jr.’s film roles, and that he watched all of them. He also got into the old Hammer films like “Curse of the Wolfman”. 5:17 - The Wolfman Q&A, Question #1: Q&A’s start, and the first question is “What similarities are there between this movie and the original?” Del Toro wakes from his bout with narcolepsy to say “That’s a good question for the director….” He’s talking about keeping the movie a period piece, rather than updating it to modern times. “I think you just need to see the picture. I mean, I need to see it too.” 5:14 - Becoming the Wolfman: Benicio said “Putting the makeup on was great, it was building and that was exciting. Taking it off, that was a bit more desperate.” “He cried like a baby,” said Baker. “He may look like a big tough guy, but he’s actually a big pussy.” Del Toro was asked if he studied any animal behavior in order to get into the role, and he quips “I checked out Emily Blunt.” Clearly it was meant as a joke, but it just came off really creepy. Del Toro is talking about how great it was to have Anthony Hopkins on set “Not just as an actor, but as a person.” He literally seems like he’s about to fall asleep. 5:11 - On the decision to get involved: Del Toro is talking about how he loved the Lon Chaney Jr. role in the original movies. Del Toro’s agent saw a poster of The Wolfman in Del Toro’s house, and he said “I’m going to go to Universal and talk to them about this.” So start buying posters, folks. Emily Blunt heard Anthony Hopkins and “Benny” were involved in the film, so she said it was pretty easy to make the decision to take the role. 5:08 - The Wolfman clip: Benicio is sleepily introducing a clip of footage from the movie. No one has seen it yet, except del Toro “But without sound! So I want to hear this.” Mediocre whoops and hollers. Murky shots of a Wolfman running through the woods, and turn of the century townsfolk finding an eviscerated body. A man runs home and melts down his mother’s silver spoons and makes bullets. Anthony Hopkins walks down the stairs, he’s playing Del Toro’s father. Hugo Weaving, better known as Agent Smith, plays the head Wolf hunter. It’s all shot in period, and looks pretty good… except del Toro looks oddly out of place. This just makes me wish that Hopkins was playing Van Helsing in this. Granted, he’s not in the original, but he’s a kickass monster hunter. 5:04 - Rick Baker, Benicio Del Toro and Emily Blunt take the stage: Universal has brought out Rick Baker, sorry… “the legendary Rick Baker” to talk about Wolfman. When Baker heard that Universal was remaking The Wolfman, he called everyone he knew at Universal and said “I have to be involved with this.” Two surprise guests, Emily Blunt and Benicio del Toro. Baker said what’s important is that they didn’t want to make a CGI version of the Wolfman, but they wanted it to actually be a guy in the suit. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog
]]>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 22:01:22 GMTSpoutBlogSpoutBlog on spout.com7/25/2008 6:01:22 PM Legendary six-time-Oscar-winning make-up artist Rick Baker joined stars Benicio Del Toro and Emily Blunt to bring us the first footage of Universal’s new version of The Wolfman. And it’s a period piece. Highlights: - The origins of the remake stem from Del Toro’s Lon Chaney Jr. fandom. - It looks like “Francis Ford Coppola’s The Wolfman” - Of course, Anthony Hopkins would be more welcome as Van Helsing again - At least it will likely be R-rated, as it looks quite bloody - Baker honors Stan Winston by labeling his death “the end of an era” - Blunt is apparently into two-headed dudes Check out the full liveblog transcript after the jump. 5:31 - Another look at the Wolfman clip: They’re rolling the clip one more time, and now I can see how bloody it is. Brains, guts, carnage. You only see a couple of extremely quick flashes of the Wolfman. It’s very gothic looking, lots of blacks and browns. Full costumes, long takes. It’s almost like Francis Ford Coppola’s The Wolfman. Anthony Hopkins comes up on his son, post-transformation and rasps “You’ve done terrible things.” Apparently he gets caught and is strapped down in a medical observatory while he transforms. We’re out, and it’s not even a full moon 5:29 - Extra guests and more Q&A: Rick Baker brings Dave and Lou Elsey up on stage and introduces them, as they helped out with the creature effects. They’ve worked on Farscape and Star Wars. A pair of twins (they asked a question during the Watchmen panel) get up and ask what the “most fun part of working on the movie was.” Del Toro says, “Uh, the chase.” Rick Baker says, “Is that a two headed man?” and Emily Blunt says, “Hi… what are you doing later?” So now we know all about her secret sexual proclivities. 5:25 - Regarding CGI and “the end of an era”: While it might be del Toro in a costume, it looks like they’ll be using CGI to show the Wolfman’s transformation. Baker is hoping they’ll do something like the physical transformations in An American Werewolf in London. Rick Baker is waxing poetic about Stan Winston and all the contributions he made to the art. He calls his death “The end of an era.” 5:22 - Regarding The Wolfman’s rating: “Will this movie be rated R?” Del Toro: “I don’t think we know yet…” Rick Baker chimes in with “I think based on this trailer it looks like it’ll be rated R.” 5:20 - The Wolfman Q&A, Question #2: Rick Baker gets asked if it’s more challenging to do makeup effects on something like this or working on Norbit, and he said working on human character faces, like Eddie Murphy’s Mr. Wong character, was much more challenging. “But I’ve been making myself up as the Wolfman since I was 10 years old.” Rick Baker quips “Look, it’s Criss Angel!” — the next kid asking a question is wearing some sort of street thug wear and a black bandana. And he looks like Criss Angel… at age 10. Emily Blunt said “I was really terrified during the chase scenes. I was literally running. While wearing a corset.” Del Toro leers: “And I just had to chase her.” Del Toro geekily giggles and admits that he’s a big fan of both Lon Chaney and Lon Chaney Jr.’s film roles, and that he watched all of them. He also got into the old Hammer films like “Curse of the Wolfman”. 5:17 - The Wolfman Q&A, Question #1: Q&A’s start, and the first question is “What similarities are there between this movie and the original?” Del Toro wakes from his bout with narcolepsy to say “That’s a good question for the director….” He’s talking about keeping the movie a period piece, rather than updating it to modern times. “I think you just need to see the picture. I mean, I need to see it too.” 5:14 - Becoming the Wolfman: Benicio said “Putting the makeup on was great, it was building and that was exciting. Taking it off, that was a bit more desperate.” “He cried like a baby,” said Baker. “He may look like a big tough guy, but he’s actually a big pussy.” Del Toro was asked if he studied any animal behavior in order to get into the role, and he quips “I checked out Emily Blunt.” Clearly it was meant as a joke, but it just came off really creepy. Del Toro is talking about how great it was to have Anthony Hopkins on set “Not just as an actor, but as a person.” He literally seems like he’s about to fall asleep. 5:11 - On the decision to get involved: Del Toro is talking about how he loved the Lon Chaney Jr. role in the original movies. Del Toro’s agent saw a poster of The Wolfman in Del Toro’s house, and he said “I’m going to go to Universal and talk to them about this.” So start buying posters, folks. Emily Blunt heard Anthony Hopkins and “Benny” were involved in the film, so she said it was pretty easy to make the decision to take the role. 5:08 - The Wolfman clip: Benicio is sleepily introducing a clip of footage from the movie. No one has seen it yet, except del Toro “But without sound! So I want to hear this.” Mediocre whoops and hollers. Murky shots of a Wolfman running through the woods, and turn of the century townsfolk finding an eviscerated body. A man runs home and melts down his mother’s silver spoons and makes bullets. Anthony Hopkins walks down the stairs, he’s playing Del Toro’s father. Hugo Weaving, better known as Agent Smith, plays the head Wolf hunter. It’s all shot in period, and looks pretty good… except del Toro looks oddly out of place. This just makes me wish that Hopkins was playing Van Helsing in this. Granted, he’s not in the original, but he’s a kickass monster hunter. 5:04 - Rick Baker, Benicio Del Toro and Emily Blunt take the stage: Universal has brought out Rick Baker, sorry… “the legendary Rick Baker” to talk about Wolfman. When Baker heard that Universal was remaking The Wolfman, he called everyone he knew at Universal and said “I have to be involved with this.” Two surprise guests, Emily Blunt and Benicio del Toro. Baker said what’s important is that they didn’t want to make a CGI version of the Wolfman, but they wanted it to actually be a guy in the suit. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog http://www.spout.com/blogs/divinemsjunebug/archive/2007/9/30/20250.aspx Post By: divinemsjunebug
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Post Date: 9/30/2007 9:48:08 AM
Body: I hadn't watched an American Werewolf in London for quite a while and thought I'd revisit it. I just LOVE this movie and can't understand why people don't like it. For the early 1980s this film was considered a masterpiece in makeup and animatronics (NO CGI PEOPLE), it was pretty revolutionary and still looks pretty great. David Naughton is not the best actor in the world but he's cute and looks like the boy next door type, I remember when I first saw it at the theater, I think I was 14 or so, and seeing that love scene I thought was so hot...hee hee. Now I watch it and think Oh my God they had no chemistry and that love scene was really awkward and very lame. I just love it when his friend Jack keeps visiting him and then all the other people he has killed. The ending was sad, but it was pretty good, I really didn't like what the werewolf looked like in the end but it was a very worthwhile movie.
]]>Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:48:08 GMTdivinemsjunebugdivinemsjunebug Blog9/30/2007 9:48:08 AMI hadn&#39;t watched an American Werewolf in London for quite a while and thought I&#39;d revisit it. I just LOVE this movie and can&#39;t understand why people don&#39;t like it. For the early 1980s this film was considered a masterpiece in makeup and animatronics (NO CGI PEOPLE), it was pretty revolutionary and still looks pretty great. David Naughton is not the best actor in the world but he&#39;s cute and looks like the boy next door type, I remember when I first saw it at the theater, I think I was 14 or so, and seeing that love scene I thought was so hot...hee hee. Now I watch it and think Oh my God they had no chemistry and that love scene was really awkward and very lame. I just love it when his friend Jack keeps visiting him and then all the other people he has killed. The ending was sad, but it was pretty good, I really didn&#39;t like what the werewolf looked like in the end but it was a very worthwhile movie. http://www.spout.com/blogs/alienlazer/archive/2007/8/7/17571.aspx Post By: AlienLazer
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Post Date: 8/7/2007 9:43:32 PM
Body: I am so horrid that I watched this movie because I saw the preview to "An American Werewolf in Paris" and thought it would be good. Yep, I thought this was the new movie. Everyone should totally message me to laugh and tell me how stupid I am. Seriously. But, yeah I thought this movie was okay. Although the ending was kinda weird. Actually, the entire move was pretty strange. lol
]]>Wed, 08 Aug 2007 01:43:32 GMTAlienLazerAlienLazer Blog8/7/2007 9:43:32 PMI am so horrid that I watched this movie because I saw the preview to &quot;An American Werewolf in Paris&quot; and thought it would be good. Yep, I thought this was the new movie. Everyone should totally message me to laugh and tell me how stupid I am. Seriously. But, yeah I thought this movie was okay. Although the ending was kinda weird. Actually, the entire move was pretty strange. lol http://www.spout.com/groups/HORROR_MOVIES_101/Re_I_WISH_My_Sister_Was_a_Werewolf/222/10136/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: Dr_Gor
Post To: HORROR MOVIES 101
Post Date: 6/4/2007 7:41:53 PM
Body: There is only one problem with your secret 'fantasy', Cutie... er, 'Froggy'... , and that is, by all accounts, once you are transformed you have no control over WHO you choose to kill... (notice I said 'kill' and not 'eat'!)... In other words, once you are transformed you have the 'bloodlust' upon you! You would view ALL people as 'something to KILL' and Not, necessarily, as FOOD! And it doesn't matter WHO that person is.... you would only want him/her DEAD! Just look to where it all started with Lon Chaney Jr.'s portrayal in a FEW of the old 'Universal' movies! "The Wolfman" , "Frankenstein Meets The Wolf Man" , "House Of Frankenstein" , etc. ... In ALL of these examples the 'victims' are described as "...having thier throats torn out as if by some beast... a WOLF, maybe..." ... There is no mention of them having been 'devoured' in any way! Although it IS 'hinted' at a bit when, in a couple of these films 'Larry Talbot' is offered some food the next morning and he is "not hungry"... Also, he claims that he can actually REMEMBER what he does while in this state but he has NO control over it! (sound familiiar?) Also, look at the end of "American Werewolf In London" , where the Werewolf SEEMS to recognize his 'girlfriend', for just an instant, before he LUNGES at her and the Police mow him down in a hail of bullets! (NOT 'silver' bullets, by the way!) I have a couple of worthy mentions besides "The Company Of Wolves", which you mentioned earlier... "Dog Soldiers" was a WAY COOL recent 'werewolf film' as was... "Wolfen" . OK... not to recent but still pretty cool! This was to 'Werewolf Movies' what "The Serpent And The Rainbow" was to 'Zombie Films'!
]]>Mon, 04 Jun 2007 23:41:53 GMTDr_GorHORROR MOVIES 1016/4/2007 7:41:53 PM There is only one problem with your secret &#39;fantasy&#39;, Cutie... er, &#39;Froggy&#39;... , and that is, by all accounts, once you are transformed you have no control over WHO you choose to kill... (notice I said &#39;kill&#39; and not &#39;eat&#39;!)... In other words, once you are transformed you have the &#39;bloodlust&#39; upon you! You would view ALL people as &#39;something to KILL&#39; and Not, necessarily, as FOOD! And it doesn&#39;t matter WHO that person is.... you would only want him/her DEAD! Just look to where it all started with Lon Chaney Jr.&#39;s portrayal in a FEW of the old &#39;Universal&#39; movies! "The Wolfman" , "Frankenstein Meets The Wolf Man" , "House Of Frankenstein" , etc. ... In ALL of these examples the &#39;victims&#39; are described as "...having thier throats torn out as if by some beast... a WOLF, maybe..." ... There is no mention of them having been &#39;devoured&#39; in any way! Although it IS &#39;hinted&#39; at a bit when, in a couple of these films &#39;Larry Talbot&#39; is offered some food the next morning and he is "not hungry"... Also, he claims that he can actually REMEMBER what he does while in this state but he has NO control over it! (sound familiiar?) Also, look at the end of "American Werewolf In London" , where the Werewolf SEEMS to recognize his &#39;girlfriend&#39;, for just an instant, before he LUNGES at her and the Police mow him down in a hail of bullets! (NOT &#39;silver&#39; bullets, by the way!) I have a couple of worthy mentions besides "The Company Of Wolves", which you mentioned earlier... "Dog Soldiers" was a WAY COOL recent &#39;werewolf film&#39; as was... "Wolfen" . OK... not to recent but still pretty cool! This was to &#39;Werewolf Movies&#39; what "The Serpent And The Rainbow" was to &#39;Zombie Films&#39;! http://www.spout.com/blogs/hairylime/archive/2007/2/28/5861.aspx Post By: HairyLime
Post To: HairyLime Blog
Post Date: 2/28/2007 11:17:00 AM
Body: After watching 'Rabid' last week, I thought I'd also check out another early Cronenberg film that was also available on our 'on demand' cable menu. Not nearly as interesting or as artfully done as the other film. The low production values and poor acting are even more glaring in this one, although there are a few effective scenes. 60s scream queen Barbara Steele makes an appearance, but her talents are mostly wasted on a cheesy bathtub scene and a few other short embarrasing sequences ("make love to me, make love to me, kiss me, make love to me"). The sanitized industrial high rise setting is almost more horrifying than the parasitic worm that wreaks havoc among its inhabitants.On the plus side, some interesting 'crawling skin' special effects are used years before they caused such a sensation on such films as 'Altered States' and 'An American Werewolf in London'.
]]>Wed, 28 Feb 2007 16:17:00 GMTHairyLimeHairyLime Blog2/28/2007 11:17:00 AMAfter watching &#39;Rabid&#39; last week, I thought I&#39;d also check out another early Cronenberg film that was also available on our &#39;on demand&#39; cable menu. Not nearly as interesting or as artfully done as the other film. The low production values and poor acting are even more glaring in this one, although there are a few effective scenes. 60s scream queen Barbara Steele makes an appearance, but her talents are mostly wasted on a cheesy bathtub scene and a few other short embarrasing sequences ("make love to me, make love to me, kiss me, make love to me"). The sanitized industrial high rise setting is almost more horrifying than the parasitic worm that wreaks havoc among its inhabitants.On the plus side, some interesting &#39;crawling skin&#39; special effects are used years before they caused such a sensation on such films as &#39;Altered States&#39; and &#39;An American Werewolf in London&#39;. http://www.spout.com/groups/Top_5/Re_Most_Memorable_Uses_of_Pop_Music/190/4869/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: Indie
Post To: Top 5
Post Date: 12/21/2006 4:37:09 PM
Body: 1. Easily, The Knack w/ "My Sharona" at the gas station in Reality Bites. Completely transporting... #1 just because I think that scene made that movie. 2. The Doors at the end of Apocalypse Now-- you're right- I agree, and it deserves to be mentioned twice, awesome. Lays me low every time. It is absolutely riveting, and plays like a video shot for the song. I'd watch it on mtv. Mythical marriage of movie and song- period 3. "Bad Moon Rising" -Creedence Clearwater Revival in American Werewolf in London . It fits on one hand, but funny to play right after the main character bites it. 4. "Let it snow" in Die Hard. Come on, not only does it play at the end, but the cop hums it while buying twinkies. 5. 5678's at the cantina in Japan, Kill Bill vol. 1. Completely left field sticks w/ me. I thought they were a cute choice. -also I've run dry on the last pick... what, they were memorable.
]]>Thu, 21 Dec 2006 21:37:09 GMTIndieTop 512/21/2006 4:37:09 PM1. Easily, The Knack w/ "My Sharona" at the gas station in Reality Bites. Completely transporting... #1 just because I think that scene made that movie. 2. The Doors at the end of Apocalypse Now-- you're right- I agree, and it deserves to be mentioned twice, awesome. Lays me low every time. It is absolutely riveting, and plays like a video shot for the song. I'd watch it on mtv. Mythical marriage of movie and song- period 3. "Bad Moon Rising" -Creedence Clearwater Revival in American Werewolf in London . It fits on one hand, but funny to play right after the main character bites it. 4. "Let it snow" in Die Hard. Come on, not only does it play at the end, but the cop hums it while buying twinkies. 5. 5678's at the cantina in Japan, Kill Bill vol. 1. Completely left field sticks w/ me. I thought they were a cute choice. -also I've run dry on the last pick... what, they were memorable. http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/romance/MemberTagFilms.aspxromance
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