WerewolvesI promised Twitter user @Quebecoiswolf that I would give him/her credit for bringing this to my attention, so thanks, @Quebecoiswolf! “This” in this case is SNARLBUCKS, the werewolf-themed coffee mug. I’m always happy to help an enterprising creator hawk his/her wares if I like said wares, and I think the Snarlbucks mug is adorable. You…Continue readingSnarlbucks
Reports are that at a recent Horror con, stars Tyler Mane and Kane Hodder were both asked which of the classic Horror Monsters they would like to play. Both of them chose the Frankenstein monster. Unfortunately for them both, it seems Javier Bardem will be playing the role in the upcoming remake from Universal Studios.…Continue readingMane vs. Kane
My favorite targets for my seemingly vitriolic yet ultimately benign mocking—since I got in trouble for being too harsh in my criticisms of TWILIGHT and THE VAMPIRE DIARIES—are Furries. They are such easy targets, too. Grown men and women who like to put on animal costumes and—do things. (There might be kids reading this article,…Continue readingNazi Furries
By the time you all are reading this, Easter, the holiday, will be over. Unless you, like me, belong to one of the high liturgical Christian denominations, in which Easter is an entire SEASON. It runs for fifty days thereabouts, from Easter Sunday to the Day of Pentecost (the coming of the Holy Spirit to…Continue readingThe Beaster Bunny
I made a point of hitting my local comic book shop of choice this past weekend, because I knew that the first issue of PENNY DREADFUL: THE AWAKENING, the new series being written by TV series executive producer Chris King, had come in. Ever since all us dreadfuls (that’s what hardcore fanboys and fangirls of…Continue reading(Comic) Book Review: PENNY DREADFUL #1
Werewolves, traditionally, are human beings that transform into wolves or, more popularly today, wolf-like but still partially human hybrid creatures, and eat often people, or attempt to do so. Anthropophagy, or cannibalism, is the practice whereby a human eats the flesh of another human. For this reason, any time cannibalism appears in a headline it’s…Continue readingHuman Flesh Isn’t Nutritious
Scroll down on this list of “15 Dark Secrets About the Muppets” to number ten. The others aren’t really that interesting, anyway, nor are they particularly “dark.” The one we will concern ourselves with is the one relating to Animal, described by puppeteer Frank Oz in five words: sleep, food, drums, sex, and pain. (Not…Continue readingWerewolf on Drums
I know this movie came out a month-and-a-half ago. I’ve just been really busy the past few weeks. I only had the chance to go see the movie over this past weekend. Honestly I doubt you all need a review, anyway—but such has never stopped me before from sharing my views and opinions with the…Continue readingReview: BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
I live about an hour away from my comic shop of choice. There are shops closer to where I live, but this one is owned by a friend of mine, so I give them my business. Because of the distance, it isn’t always convenient for me to swing by the store to pick up my…Continue readingUpdate on the PENNY DREADFUL Comic
I only recently got a Smartphone. Like, a few months ago. I always said I didn’t have the patience to own one, that I’d end up throwing it across the room, thus shattering it and negating the desired effects of owning one in the first place. I clung to my outdated little flip-phone as to…Continue readingWerewolf Smartphone
It’s monkey week here at werewolves.com, apparently. I didn’t know. I sure didn’t plan it that way. But the Internet gods this week have gifted me with not one, not two, but THREE articles to make use of for source material, all having to do with monkeys. Elsewhere I reported on the confusion some monkeys…Continue readingThe Monkey-girl and the Monkey Guardian Angels
Here’s the problem: Flint flakes have long been taken as evidence that our prehistoric ancestors knew how to use tools. Way back, when we (“we” being humans) were still more animal than otherwise, it seemed that our hirsute forbears had mastered the use of razor-sharp stone flakes to butcher animals—and each other. But modern-day monkeys…Continue readingStone Tools Not Tools At All?
This would be heaven for me. Literally heaven. Unfortunately it’s in southern California, which means I won’t be getting there this year. To paraphrase Portia/Balthazar from THE MERCHANT OF VENICE: “…in the course of justice, none of us should attain heaven: we do pray for free travel vouchers…” OR an overly-generous fan who wants to…Continue readingThe Hall of Shadows
“Even a man who is pure of heart, and says his prayers by night, may become a wolf when the coffee is brewed and the moon is shining bright!” In West Town, Chicago there’s a new stationary and mobile coffee company operating part-time out of a truck. A refurbished Wonder Bread truck, to be exact,…Continue readingWerewolf Coffee
There’s no point in denying there is blatant racism at the root of this. It’s also a textbook example of xenophobia, literally “fear of the stranger.” A mob in, or near, New Delhi, India attacked a group of Nigerian students after an Indian teen died from a drug overdose. The teen was apparently missing for…Continue readingFalsely Accused of Cannibalism
Can they keep it up? (That’s what she said? And I’m giving myself a self-high five for working in my SECOND “That’s what she said” joke this week!) The first two PLANET OF THE APES prequels were consistently excellent. Can they keep the standard of quality at that level? I sure hope so. From what…Continue readingWar for the Planet of the Apes
The problem is not that supposedly extinct Thylacines are being spotted in Australia. That would be great news, as it would suggest that the animal is NOT extinct after all. The problem is, if the animal HAS survived into the present, it shouldn’t be being sighted in Australia. It’s indigenous to Tasmania, or was, hence…Continue readingMore Thylacines
Can’t judge a book by its cover? Balderdash! Sometimes you can, and sometimes you can judge a movie by its title. Case in point, I don’t need to know anything else about this particular film, BIGFOOT VS. ZOMBIES, to know that I want to see it. There are maybe some caveats. Like, if I saw…Continue readingBIGFOOT VS. ZOMBIES
I received this year’s ballot for the annual Rondo Hatton awards (If you don’t know who Rondo was, google him but don’t tell anybody, lest you want to look like a stoopie.) and I figured, as it is an open forum, I’d help ‘em out by publicizing it for ‘em, also figuring they wouldn’t mind…Continue readingThe Rondo Hatton Awards
Short of a polygraph test, there’s no way to be sure. And even then, polygraph machines aren’t 100% accurate; then there’s the scenario in which the witness hallucinates, firmly believing what she saw was real even if it wasn’t; a lie detector test couldn’t rule that out. Short of physical evidence, of which there wasn’t…Continue readingBigfoot Causes Car Wreck
William Castle is one of my creative heroes, second only to Ed Wood as an inspiration for me. (I work in show biz, too, remember, when I’m not hard at work reporting on all things fortean and lycanthropic for you fine folks here and at one of our sister sites; vampires.com; darkness.com; topcomics.com; and zombies.org.)…Continue readingBuy a Ticket, get a Barf Bag
There’s a book entitled WOMEN WHO RUN WITH THE WOLVES: MYTHS AND STORIES OF THE WILD WOMAN ARCHETYPE, by Clarissa Pinkola Estes. This article is not about that book. I mean, it kinda is, since I’m mentioning it. And since I mentioned it, I might as well offer a micro review. The book is more…Continue readingRunning with Wolves
What a squandered opportunity! This real-life incident is the best set-up for a Horror flick I’ve ever heard. You start with one of those lame-ass “reality” TV shows that are all the rage these days, this one called EDEN, with the premise that a group of regular people are dropped off in a remote location—unlike…Continue readingNobody Told the Contestants
