Company of wolveslone_she_wolfFebruary 10 2008, 19:55:43 UTC
Hello, I believe you forgot The Company of wolves. It's a surreal film made in 1984 about a teenage girl who dreams of werwolves as a metaphor for sexuality, maturity, puberty, and masculinity without showing any sex or nudity at all. It's very well made. It all takes place in teh girl's dream where she is told several werewolf stories. In the end she gets seduced by one and becomes one herself.
There's also the 1997 made for television House of Frankenstein in which there is a female werewolf. This was made for NBC.
There's also the 1990/1991 television series She-wolf of London, which was basically about an American girl who gets bitten by a werewolf while in England and her professor / lover tries to help her find a cure. The two end up married before the show is over but they can't make love because it always... brings out the beast in her. It's actually a bit comical. They had weekly adventures facing off against the supernatural rather like Buffy.
Re: Company of wolvesgirl_werewolvesFebruary 10 2008, 20:47:41 UTC
Thanks for the suggestions, lone_she_wolf -- I did know about 'The Company of Wolves' and the series 'She-Wolf of London.' I chose not to include them because I'm trying to keep it to fairly recent portrayals (the past 10 years).
I didn't know about 'House of Frankenstein,' though -- I'll definitely check it out. Thanks!
Why aren't other movies listed in the posts?girl_werewolvesFebruary 12 2008, 15:52:13 UTC
Thank you to everyone for the suggestions! I love to hear about whatever folks throw my way (especially the books and graphic novel stuff, since I can't fit that stuff into my thesis/research), and I'm sure other people who read the posts here do too. Maybe this post will turn into a kind of "Did y'all read/see . . .?" discussion.
My thesis is focused on recent films and television shows, though, so that's why the earlier films like 'The Howling' don't have their own posts. For the record, here are the films that will get a mention in my thesis but that I chose not to include here:
Cry of the Werewolf (1944) The Howling (1981) The Company of Wolves (1984) "She-Wolf of London" (1990) Full Eclipse (1993) Wolf (1994)
Of course, 'The Howling' has many sequels with female weres. And thanks to lone_she_wolf above, I'm also trying to get my hands on a copy of 'House of Frankenstein' (1997
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Hi ! WoW that's a cool thesis !! ^^ Well i don't know if i will help lool.. i loove lycanthropy and stuffs like that... of course there's Buffy and Angel.. Lately (i think last year) there was the movie Blood and Chocolate about a woman werewolf who betrayed her clan because she wanted to be more human...it's adapted from a book.. And you get to know also a lot about metamorphs and lycanthropy with the books Anita Blake series by Laurell K Hamilton (though i don't know if it's true or not, it's a fantasy/erotic book haha)... Hmmm thinking....you had the movie Cursed also recently... well that's what i remember for now.. haha.. Soo in your thesis, you'll also be studying the psychologic part of the beast inside of us.. the schizophrenia ? All the best ! ^^
Thanks for the support, gormarien. :) I'm going to have a lot about the book and film 'Blood and Chocolate' and the changes made between the two, but I won't be able to get into any other books -- I just don't have the space. So no Anita Blake this time around.
Actually my thesis is more about the portrayal of these characters -- not really the psychology, but more about how they're shown -- because the werewolf is usually thought of as male/masculine.
I think the only reason the werewolf was/is thought of as male/masculine is because when the foundations of the horror industry were created, it was a masculine world. Male leads, male villains and the roles women got stuck with in the Bela Legosi world were damsel in distress, evil harpy or flinty-eyed dame. *shrug* The movie moguls have finally got it into their minute skulls that females can play the role of predator just as well, if not better than most males. As the song says, "The female of the species is more deadly than the male" And thank the gods that they're mixing up the roles. Yes, there are the morally torn and mentally anguished females that think of it as a curse and try to suppress any and all desires to give into the primal side - But there are also the ones that let their beast self fit over their psyche like a glove, and they wear it well. To be honest, I prefer the latter. In an unrealistic prospect, it's the most realistic option. :) My two cents.
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Hello, I believe you forgot The Company of wolves. It's a surreal film made in 1984 about a teenage girl who dreams of werwolves as a metaphor for sexuality, maturity, puberty, and masculinity without showing any sex or nudity at all. It's very well made. It all takes place in teh girl's dream where she is told several werewolf stories. In the end she gets seduced by one and becomes one herself.
There's also the 1997 made for television House of Frankenstein in which there is a female werewolf. This was made for NBC.
There's also the 1990/1991 television series She-wolf of London, which was basically about an American girl who gets bitten by a werewolf while in England and her professor / lover tries to help her find a cure. The two end up married before the show is over but they can't make love because it always... brings out the beast in her. It's actually a bit comical. They had weekly adventures facing off against the supernatural rather like Buffy.
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The character in She-wolf of London was Randi.
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I didn't know about 'House of Frankenstein,' though -- I'll definitely check it out. Thanks!
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http://www.zianet.com/comic-booksuperstore/dc/swampthing.html
Alan Moore wrote the Swamp Thing series back in the 80's, he did a single issue where a female werewolf is encountered. The transformation/rage is based on male opression of a woman and her ancestral rage. Worth a read if you have the spare cash for the reprint (about 20$ on Amazon).
http://www.amazon.com/Swamp-Thing-Vol-3-Curse/dp/1563896974/ref=pd_bbs_sr_5?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1202740975&sr=8-5
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My thesis is focused on recent films and television shows, though, so that's why the earlier films like 'The Howling' don't have their own posts. For the record, here are the films that will get a mention in my thesis but that I chose not to include here:
Cry of the Werewolf (1944)
The Howling (1981)
The Company of Wolves (1984)
"She-Wolf of London" (1990)
Full Eclipse (1993)
Wolf (1994)
Of course, 'The Howling' has many sequels with female weres. And thanks to lone_she_wolf above, I'm also trying to get my hands on a copy of 'House of Frankenstein' (1997 ( ... )
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WoW that's a cool thesis !! ^^
Well i don't know if i will help lool.. i loove lycanthropy and stuffs like that... of course there's Buffy and Angel.. Lately (i think last year) there was the movie Blood and Chocolate about a woman werewolf who betrayed her clan because she wanted to be more human...it's adapted from a book..
And you get to know also a lot about metamorphs and lycanthropy with the books Anita Blake series by Laurell K Hamilton (though i don't know if it's true or not, it's a fantasy/erotic book haha)...
Hmmm thinking....you had the movie Cursed also recently... well that's what i remember for now.. haha..
Soo in your thesis, you'll also be studying the psychologic part of the beast inside of us.. the schizophrenia ?
All the best ! ^^
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Actually my thesis is more about the portrayal of these characters -- not really the psychology, but more about how they're shown -- because the werewolf is usually thought of as male/masculine.
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The movie moguls have finally got it into their minute skulls that females can play the role of predator just as well, if not better than most males. As the song says, "The female of the species is more deadly than the male"
And thank the gods that they're mixing up the roles. Yes, there are the morally torn and mentally anguished females that think of it as a curse and try to suppress any and all desires to give into the primal side - But there are also the ones that let their beast self fit over their psyche like a glove, and they wear it well.
To be honest, I prefer the latter. In an unrealistic prospect, it's the most realistic option. :)
My two cents.
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