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I’m reading The Wolfen, and really liking the genuinely scary werewolves so far. I kind of saw the explanation coming- with Whitely Striber it’s always an alien or ancient evolved intelligence- but they’re nor really wolves and definitely not humans, yet they think like humans and kill like wolves. And there’s upsetting vampire lore to go with them.
“Teresa’s shouted command for him to run was the most unneeded advice Mentras had ever been given. If the mad dwarf wanted to take on a night-forsaken wolfen in order to give him time to flee, he felt perfectly comfortable leaving her to it.”
It was the luck of his race to prey on humanity, but at times like this, when he was forced to kill the young and strong, he wondered very much about his place in the world. His children thought of humanity merely in terms of food, but long years had taught him that man was also a thinking being, that he too enjoyed the beauties of the world. Man also had language, past, and hope. But knowing this did not change the need—call it compulsion—to kill and eat the prey. Every single human being he saw, he evaluated at once out of habit. He enjoyed the way the flesh popped between his jaws and the hot blood poured down his throat.
Living in human cities, he gloried in the heady poetry of the scents.
- Old Father, The Wolfen, Whitley Strieber
Artwork by Massimo Righi
WOLFEN: Release Year: 1981 Director Michael Wadleigh Starring: Albert Finney, Diane Venora, Gregory Hines and Edward James Olmos Theatrical Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1BH0uPIruQ Personal Rating: 7/10 This movie was not what I expected it to be like or about. I enjoyed the crime aspect of it, it sets it apart from other big “wolf” themed horror movies (An American Werewolf in London, The Howling, Stephen King’s Silver Bullet). Warning for spoilers, it deals with Native Americans in throughout New York, mostly the Bronx, places or “land” that was significant or important to the culture, their living space, etc. I loved the human element in the film, man and nature and the relationship there, man VS nature, the alternating point of views of human and “wolf”. It started off a little slow but when it picked up, it was more intriguing to keep watching. I do wish the movie could have really taken it there and went further but benefit of the doubt being an adaptation from a book. Side note: this is based off the novel “The Wolfen”. Watched: January 1, 2018
On June 2, 2015, Wolen was released on Blu-ray by the Warner Archive Collection.
On November 13, 1991, Wolfen was released on Laserdisc by Warner Home Video.
Here's some new art inspired by the horror classic!
The Wolfen (1978) by Whitley Strieber
The Wolfen (1978) by Whitley Strieber
The Wolfen was a recommendation from fellow blogger Sean P Carlin who described it as a pulpy but decent werewolf story that uses its 1970s New York setting very well. There aren’t very many werewolf books out there so I wanted to give it a try. The author Whitley Strieber is probably most famous for his book Communion (1987) about his alleged encounters with extraterrestrial beings. I haven’t…
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