Still loads to do…I’m hoping by Saturday, I might be able to string more than a few sentences together in this context; but meanwhile, the fullest extent of my sentence-stringing skills must be devoted to the book I’m nearly finished with…
Another photo from the other day, showing myself and the other werewolf…
Now, who ever said all werewolves look alike? Not me…! 
You’ve seen THE CURSE OF THE QUEERWOLF, right?
By: Ruadhán on August 29, 2012
at 7:46 pm
I’ve heard of it, but have not seen it yet, alas. Would you recommend it?
By: aediculaantinoi on August 30, 2012
at 1:54 am
I would, but it’s not as good as LisztOMania. Also check out THE WOLVES OF KROMER: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0177394/
Sorry for the shit formatting. I’m on the tablet and have a chubby cat on me, keeping me from my desktop.
By: Ruadhán on August 30, 2012
at 2:09 am
Well, I know you like LisztOMania quite a lot, but I don’t know…
In any case, I’ve seen The Wolves of Kromer, and own it, and despite some of its silliness in bits, I quite like it!
By: aediculaantinoi on August 30, 2012
at 8:40 pm
Hush, now; everybody needs to see Roger Daltrey riding an eleven feet long, papier mâche penis. And Nazi FrankenWagner.
By: Ruadhán on August 30, 2012
at 9:17 pm
Can those clips be excised from the rest of the film and just shown to everyone? It might be easier that way…they don’t really need to have contextualizing info given to accompany them, even, just “Look at this!” and there you go!
By: aediculaantinoi on August 30, 2012
at 9:21 pm
Oh, please! Without the context, none of that weirdness makes any sense!
By: Ruadhán on August 30, 2012
at 9:59 pm
Though with the context, it doesn’t make much more sense either (except narratologically, but oh well…)…!?!
By: aediculaantinoi on August 31, 2012
at 1:14 am
I’ll give you that it makes less sense than, say, ZARDOZ, but only cos most people ignore the vital metaphor.
By: Ruadhán on August 31, 2012
at 2:22 am
Yes, I have, and A Polish Vampire in Brooklyn (which includes the first appearance of the Queerwolf). And The Wolves of Kromer. As far as I know, those are the only films that explicitly explore the homoerotic themes of werewolves.
…Queerwolf and Polish Vampire… are funny, occasionally hilarious. …Kromer is wistful, whimsical, and touching by turns.
By: Faoladh on August 30, 2012
at 6:57 pm
There’s a tiny little bit in The Wolves of Wall Street as well…pretty much the only “killing” that the lead character does, which he has no remorse or second thoughts for, is a PVC-clad effeminate guy who comes up to him on the street (cruising, presumably), there’s a scream (or something), and then that’s the end of said queer PVC guy. It’s kind of interesting how this event gets “closeted” in the overall hyper-masculine heterosexism of the rest of the film, despite an awful lot of getting damn close to homoeroticism. (The various “wolves” urinating on one another to mark their territory/prove who is superior, etc.–gosh, anyone ever heard of watersports?!?)
By: aediculaantinoi on August 30, 2012
at 8:42 pm
I think you’re right about these films being the only ones to really address the homoerotic themes of werewolf lore. I think the vampire-as-queer-metaphor was so popular because a common element to vampire lore is diurnal invisibility, and “straight”, which is a euphemism for “normal”, people would rather pretend that queer people don’t exist, and if you only avoid certain conditions, like nighttime, low lights, cemeteries, etc…, you can avoid “teh ghey”.
The werewolf parallel works better in some ways, especially with the post-Stonewall social climate, because it works well with the “closeted” topic –one of the few things I liked about the original TEEN WOLF film was that Fox’s character was getting major pressure from his father to stop flaunting the “wolf face” after he learned that he could, indeed, control how the transformation worked, and that his friends didn’t consider this a bad thing –but ultimately, I found it a very stupid movie because it just dodged the clear gay or bisexual metaphor so much. The werewolf story is that of the double life, where few, if any people know what you’re hiding. It can also work very easily as a “stealth trans” allegory, for that reason, too.
By: Ruadhán on August 30, 2012
at 7:27 pm