My Favorite Monster -

Werewolves

By Gore Lord

 

 

 

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awil

Rick Baker's master work with animatronics, makeup, and puppetry brings to life these creatures of the night in the now classic "An American Werewolf in London" (1981)

 

 

 

 

 

dogsold

"Dog Soldiers" with the tagline "Six soldiers. Full moon. No chance. Won the 2002 Saturn Award for "Best DVD Release". Terrific makeup special effects work by Dave Bonneywell.

 

 

 

em

A blast from the past! How about little Eddie Munster! A true television classic, the "Munsters" is always worth watching and re-watching! Perc Westmore did makeup for the movie "Munster, Go Home!" (1966)

 

 

 

grindwolf

"Werewolf Woman of the SS" is a fake movie trailer shot by Rob Zombie for Quinten Tatantino and Robert Rodriguez's movie "Grindhouse"

 

 

howling

"The Howling" was a 1977 novel by Gary Brandner. In 1981, Rob Bottin's masterfull makeup work was featured in the film version.

 

 

 

thrillmj

Rick Baker did the remarkable makeups for Michael Jackson's "Thriller" video. Most notably, Michael had to wear those FX sclera contact lens which cover the entire
white of the eye!

 

 

madmon

Rankin and Bass the team who brought us "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" didn't leave out Halloween!! "Mad Monster Party" (1969) had them all! Dracula, Baron von Frankenstein (ala Boris Karloff's voice), Wolfman, and of course Phyllis Diller (as The Monster's wife) to name a few!!

 

 

 

silverb

Matthew Mungle created the FX makeup for these creatures in Stephen King's "Silver Bullet" 1985

 

 

 

teenwlf

Who could forget Michael Landon's teen angst performance in "I was a Teenage Werewolf" (1957) With the tagline :"The most amazing motion picture of our time!" Phillip Scheer created Landon's teen wolf.

 

 

 

underrev

"Underworld Evolution" (2006) features Patrick Tatopoulos' creature designs -- very cool werewolves indeed!

 

 

 

wolfm

The original Universal Studios "Wolfman"(1941), staring Lon Chaney Jr. and featuring the makeup artistry of legend Jack Pierce. The makeup was made of Yak hair!

 

 

 

 

 

wolf

Rick Baker was fx makeup artist on the 1994 film Wolf and Gino Acevedo worked on the animatronic wolf effects crew!

 

 


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