When I was a kid I developed a nerdy fascination with movie special effects and make-up. There was a point at which I tried (and failed) to build a dinosaur model out of wire, rubber and papier-mâché, in the style of Ray Harryhausen’s much-loved stop-motion monsters. (Quite why I bothered I don’t know as I…
The Company of Wolves/An American Werewolf
Here are a couple of dramatic werewolf transformation stills from two very different movies. You can see elsewhere on my site that I am rather partial to a good werewolf movie. However, I never particularly liked The Company of Wolves. Director Neil Jordan made some cracking films (including Interview with the Vampire and Mona Lisa),…