Monster of the Day #3352

Whew. OK, after a day off in seclusion, I’m (mostly) recovered from the rigors of hanging out with my favorite people two weekends in a row. Still, I expect to be a big foggy at work today, and I have old friends over for a movie tomorrow night, and then the Watch Party on Friday…man, I am not for this much socializing.

Anyway, when we left off last week we were in the middle of B-Fest (two weekends back). The next movie after Fiend Without a Face was The Boy Who Cried Werewolf, presumably a screenplay written entirely around the title. Also the sixth monster movie in a row, and really, they probably should have separated those a bit. The film is a bit overlong, the cast is stiff and the titular child actor isn’t that great, they fell in love with their werewolf mask and featured it way too much. That said, it’s not bad. For most of its running time it feels like a made for TV movie, but that makes the deaths of a pretty nice couple all the more shocking. Probably the most impressive thing is that this is the very rare film presenting hippies who i didn’t hate.

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NobleCobra

Looks like Mr. Badger from a live action adaptation of ‘Wind in the Willows’.
Gamera977

I’d be more afraid of him shedding all over my furniture than rending me limb from limb…..
Gamera977

Ya know there was a Dwarven werebadger in a D&D Ravenloft novel I read years and years ago. It’s a pretty cool concept that someone somewhere should write a movie about.
Rock Baker

The long snout werewolf was pretty novel at the time.
Cullen Waters

By coincidence I watched Howl last night, a movie about a group of irritating British characters stalked by a werewolf while trapped on a broken down train. I liked it, but the more I think about it, the more problems I have with it. It briefly has Sean Pertwee in it. Apparently his dad never got around to teaching him how to regenerate…
Galaxy Jane

That’s because they weren’t Hippies, they were Jesus Freaks, there’s a subtle distinction. Even the local sheriff had to leave them alone for being law-abiding weirdos. And surprisingly effective ones, they’d have taken care of the whole problem halfway through if only Mom hadn’t interfered.

I was surprised, I liked this a lot more than I remembered. I mean it’s no great art, but pretty painless and had a few nice bits.
🐻 bgbear_rnh

Svengoolie is going to do Hammer’s “The Curse of the Werewolf”. I do not know how I have never seen it.
Eric Hinkle

I remember that guy. From the ‘Knight of the Black Rose’ novel with Lord Soth.
Eric Hinkle

I do recall that their leader seemed a trifle shady, though nowhere near as bad as such preachers are usually displayed in these sort of films. I especially like how he got a ‘special revelation’ the morning after they meet the werewolf, telling them to preach the word of the Lord somewhere far, far, away from last night’s events.
Eric Hinkle

I do like this movie. So many great scenes, like the one where the werewolf tangles with the Jesus Freaks and their very badly rattled leader. Or how the psychiatrist asks the father to come and visit him for some consultation ‘abut sundown’. On a night of the full moon.
zombiewhacker

One of my least favorite Hammer films, and even Oliver Reed’s considerable presence couldn’t save it.
Galaxy Jane

Mostly it’s his girlfriend that’s shady, she can’t believe that he actually *believes* this stuff. Although I will grant that he has a powerful sense of self-preservation. Still, they actually join the posse instead of making a run for it in the end.
Galaxy Jane

The fact that the shrink is George Gaynes helps a lot. I also really admire that the threat is not just supernatural, but actually demonic and taken seriously as such.
Gamera977

That’s gotta be it! Wow, I can’t believe someone other than I read that!

I don’t remember much else about it other than it not being a very good novel.
Gamera977

Yeah, it’s decent but personally not one of my favorite Hammer films either.

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