BIG BAD WOLVES

Blood-thirsty bogeymen, teen monsters and lone wolves

Reviews:

• Tenderness of the Wolves: Fassbinder-produced take on German child molester flesh-eating murderer Fritz Haarmann
• The Rats Are Coming! The Werewolves Are Here!
• Ginger Snaps: The growing pains of a girl to werewolf
• Lone Wolf and Cub: Samurai strays
• Supernatural: Werewolf reunion
• Jin-Roh: Little Red Riding Hood animé

Comic Strip Review:

• Wolfen: Michael Wadleigh’s unusual 80s Indian shapeshifters horror

Article:

• The Werewolves of the British Isles: There are good reasons why Britain is the home of the wolf.

Interview:

• Big Bad Wolves: Interview with Writer-director duo Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado on victims and victimisers, corrupt politicians, and taking revenge on your parents

Reel Sounds:

• Ironically Howling at the Moon with An American Werewolf in London: The soundtrack to John Landis’s much-loved horror comedy inventively subverts the clichés of the genre.

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Illustration by Lucy Bergonzi