WEREWOLF BY NIGHT looks like it’s combining the classic black-and-white horror movie aesthetic with the now-classic* 1980s gory horror movie aesthetic, and I am there for it. I have no idea how Marvel’s getting away with putting it on Disney+, but that’s what parental controls are for. …Although that’s a theoretical concept in this household. Both of my kids are devotees of creepypasta, and so far it seems not to have done either any harm. October 7th!
*I truly regret having to remind you that AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON is forty-one years old. So is WOLFEN. THE THING is forty, NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET is thirty-eight, THE LOST BOYS thirty-five**… that time period is as far away from us now as the 1940s and 1950s classic horror flicks were to me as a teenager. On the bright side: God damn, but the toys are awesome now. Not to mention the baseline medical care.
#commissionearned
**”CRYYYYYYY LITTLE SISTER… Sorry about that.
Nothing to apologize for. It was one of the best soundtracks of the eighties.
Although there’s a creepy factor if you mishear Elton John and George Michael as singing “don’t let your son go down on me”.
Thou shall not want
The Lost Boys is very good use of cinema to tell a story and set a very specific era’s zeitgeist.
Mew