Quick note up top: back on Substack, alt text would auto populate from Wikimedia Commons. It seems to not do that here. I apologize for not adding alt text previously, I didn’t realize it wasn’t there.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n This week, as I said in the title, it’s either my first- or second-favorite type of monster. We’re doing werewolves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n German Woodcuts Go Hard<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n You ever seen much German woodcuts? I have a whole book of them, depicting 1920s urban life, that I picked up when I worked in a used bookstore. They’re incredible in general, but rendering them to print gives them this super eerie black-and-white texture. It’s very cool. I like this werewolf. Seems like a friendly, if violent, werewolf. Town party animal, from the looks of the onlookers. This werewolf could turn me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Shoutout To Weird Tales<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Having not read much Lovecraft, anytime I picture a Lovecraft main character, I picture a stuck-up ninny like Ben Barnes’ William Thurber in the “Pickman’s Model” episode of Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities<\/em><\/a>. This werewolf, from a 1941 issue of Weird Tales<\/em> (who published a bunch of Lovecraft), feels perfect for the magazine. Guy wearing a suit, just trying to do right by the impossible standards of early 20th-century New England, whoops, now he’s a werewolf. Probably a super, super racist werewolf. But he didn’t want<\/em> to be a werewolf, he wanted<\/em> to have lunch at the club. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Technically This Goofball Is A Platschhonk<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Hailing from the German town of \u00dcbach, this little guy is part dragon. What a great reminder that werewolves are also very silly. I wish I lived in a town with werewolf public art. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Nothing But Respect For My<\/em> Wolf Man<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n As said before<\/a>, I thought both the 2010 and 2025 Wolf Man<\/em> remakes were just fine<\/em>, only fine<\/em>, nothing better. One of them has its moments, the other has Benicio del Toro and Anthony Hopkins and nothing else that I remember. Lon Chaney Jr not only starred in a good movie, he made us look past this okay-for-its-time werewolf makeup. Brendan named a cat after him. Deservedly so, because both that cat and Lon Chaney Jr are gods. Pour one out for a legend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Best Movie Werewolves Of All Time<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I didn’t say the best werewolf movie, although it’s a pretty good one. You ever seen Dog Soldiers<\/em>? It rocks. It’s these army troops playing war games in in the Scottish highlands, except, it doesn’t stay war games for long. It’s definitely a 2002 action horror movie with some 2002 comedy, but it’s a good movie. The werewolves, though. The werewolves are legitimately scary, imposing, and don’t get any less so when you see a whole-body view. Look at that image! Is that soldier sure those guns will help? That is a WOLF. HUMAN. It’s like Victor Wembanyama, but with LeBron’s physique, and a wolf head and claws<\/em>. This movie came out 23 years ago and we haven’t gotten better werewolves since. Even in a really great movie like The Cursed<\/a><\/em>. Well done, Dog Soldiers<\/em>, no one is taking the belt from you. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Sorry you got an email, <\/p>\n\n\n\n Chris<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cThat\u2019s how it is with werewolves. 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