Tuesday, 2 February 2010

20 Essential Werewolf Movies



In preparation for the release of The Wolfman next week, I have written an article which lists what I believe to be the twenty essential werewolf movies that every fan should attempt to have in their collection.

The Wolfman Returneth : Essential Werewolf Movies

Do you agree with my list? Read it and see!

The Wolfman Approaches ...


Okay, lots of buzz going on right now, as you'd expect with the release of The Wolfman fast approaching. February 12th is the date I've no doubt you've already got marked on your calendars.

Universal have today released the box-set of their old She-Wolf of London TV show as a tie-in with the release. Hmm, seems like a good excuse to finally complete that episode guide ...

Several publications will be running special features on "werewolves in movies" ahead of the big day. So far I've been contacted by a couple of journalists from the US to make contributions to articles. This is good for the website, in terms of the extra publicity, and also good for me as I finally get to put all this seemingly useless knowledge to use. So please do send an e-mail if you'd like to publish my ramblings.

More news/updates to follow in the coming days ...


EDIT: Also worth noting that last week Werewolf-Movies.com broke its record number of weekly hits. The previous records had always been set at Halloween - with the final week of October 2008 and 2009 being the busiest periods the site had ever seen. The Wolfman hype has just blown those records out of the water.

Friday, 22 January 2010

TV Updates



I have started work on bring the TV section up to date. I have reviewed the pilot episode of surreal animated show Superjail!, which features a werewolf storyline.

I've also updated information on Being Human (in preperation for a full episode guide at some point), and added Sanctuary and The Wild Wild West.

Monday, 18 January 2010

Upcoming etc.

I have started bringing the Upcoming Movies section up to date. You'll notice a lot of titles have been removed. Either these projects are canceled or in limbo, or they have been released and will be added to the main database.

Updated information on The Wolf Man, Cross (formerly called Shifter), The Ghouly Boys and others.

The following movies have been added to the database:

Providence (1977)
Sogni d'oro (1981)
Necroville (2007)
The Chronicles of Narnia : Prince Caspian (2008)
Trick 'r Treat (2008)
Animals (2008)
Underworld : Rise of the Lycans (2009)
The Band From Hell (2009) - previously Neowolf
Timo Rose's Beast (2009)
Cirque Du Freak : The Vampire's Assistant (2009)
New Moon (2009)

More to come!

Tuesday, 12 January 2010

New Years Resolutions Suck.

I hate the whole concept of new years resolutions. Don't get me wrong, there's nothing wrong the idea of wanting to change your life and do the things you should be doing ... but the tradition itself is all based around this depressing notion that come the following December, you will have fallen back into your old habits. The inevitability of human nature.

Having said that a new decade must be worth at least one resolution, right?

Werewolf-Movies.com has been alive for about five and a half years. It doesn't feel like that long. I had to do a whois lookup to try and find the date I registered the domain, and sure enough there it is; June 2004.

In its early days, it used to look something like this:

It was a plain HTML website that used frames, but it did boast much the same level of content that it does now. In June 2007 I made the decision to redesign the site and build it into a functioning PHP database. The end result of that is what you see now.

The site gets hundreds of visitors every day. 63.51% of visitors come here through a simple Google search for 'werewolf movies'. Curiously, the most visitors the site has ever had in a single day was on last Halloween.

As you can see, it hasn't been updated in quite a while. This isn't the first time I have disappeared from maintaining the site for months on end. Werewolf movies were an obsession of mine for a long time, but I have a habit of getting distracted by my various other obsessions.

But that's what resolutions are for, right?

I have begun the process of inputting all the visitor reviews that have been submitted over the past year or so. There are a lot. If any of yours end up getting missed, either they were lost in the spam or they were ineligible for some reason.

Once that's all up to date, I'll be working on bringing the other areas of the site up to speed.