I can't take any credit, someone over at the Gen. Sci-Fi & Fantasy forum at old blue posted it. Looks good, check the cane in the third pic! The Wolf-Man, Spring 2009
The Wolf-man looks like a crappy Henry McCoy (The Beast) knock-off, or perhaps his dim-witted younger brother that suffers not only from lycantrophy but from really bad special effects make-up as well.
Dude, the make-up is intended as both an update and an homage to Jack Pierce's make-up from the 1941 The Wolf-Man. And it's being done by Rick Baker.
Mmmmm...maybe. I think it's better that the monster not be so...revealed...in the ads. Also, the man in make-up thing is kindof a tough sell these days. But...maybe.
Yeah. The big argument for the initial makeup is that that was the best FX could do in 1853 when the first one was made. In this day and age there's really no excuse not to have a full-on four-legged werewolf. Hell, they did one fairly convincingly back in the late '70s in "American Werewolf in London"--with FX by Rick Baker no less. Eh. Sorry if I'm killing your buzz, but it just doesn't look like my cup of tea.
Looks like they're trying to go for a "retro" wolfman look here. Meh. I like the later werewolves, like in The Howling where they look more wolfy and less human.
Even a man who is pure at heart And says his prayers at night Can turn into a wolf when the wolf bane blooms And the Autumn moon grows bright...
That's one of Curt Siodmak's better additions to the werewolf genre, it still works some 67 years after he wrote it.
I mean really. You've got Bencinio del Toro. Tell him to grow out his beard, give him some dime store plastic fangs and a pair of Spock ears and you've got a pretty convincing Wolf Man right there.
There's pic out there somewhere of a bearded Del Toro menacing Rick Baker, and even with no Spock ears or plastic teeth, he looked pretty lupine. Over the Classic Horror Film Board, they've noticed all kinds of hints of previous werewolf flicks, from Lon Chaney Jr.'s look, to Oliver Reed, and other stuff. It's subtle, but it's there. And by all accounts this is going to be a pretty bloody flick when the wolf action kicks in.
One of the guys over at the Classic Horror Film Board found a camcorder bootleg of the Comic-Con trailer: Comic-Con The Wolfman teaser! Note: It's right after the teaser for Sex Drive.
