Together with his new film “Wolf Man,” Leigh Whannell turns into the newest filmmaker to sort out the titular shape-shifting basic Common monster on the display screen. In his assessment of Whannell’s re-imagining, /Movie’s Jeremy Mathai noticed that the movie “reinvents the title character and its accompanying curse as a moody, atmospheric thriller that cares simply as a lot (if no more) concerning the household on the middle of this tragedy because the precise scares.”
A part of what makes werewolf motion pictures distinctive is that these usually are not simply monsters, but in addition individuals who rework backwards and forwards between being monster and human. This permits the werewolf film to be versatile; reasonably than having to depend on their characters to maintain coming round to come across the monster for the comfort of the plot, the monster stays with the characters all through these movies, hiding amongst them, till it is too late. Werewolf motion pictures make nice fantasy motion pictures, horror-comedies, physique horror pics, dramas, Westerns, and far more — as evidenced by our personal record of one of the best werewolf motion pictures ever. It is not simply R-rated style movies for grownup audiences both; in truth, there’s loads of kids’s media that tackles the werewolf with whimsy and playfullness, with “Goosebumps,” “Scooby-Doo,” and the “Ghostbusters” cartoon collection all placing a kid-friendly spin on the idea.
Certainly, one of many extra curious and surprising takes on the horror sub-genre mix the basic werewolf story with a beloved franchise about singing rodents. That is proper, Alvin and the Chipmunks met the Wolfman at one level, and it is about as weirdly enjoyable as you may think.
Alvin and the Chipmunks met a number of basic monsters
In “Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet the Wolfman,” Alvin is satisfied that his neighbor is a werewolf and has nightmares about him. Whereas on the lookout for proof, him and his brother Simon are oblivious to the truth that their neighbor is harmless, however that there is a werewolf amongst them — specifically, Theodore. Sure, this can be a youngsters’ cartoon a few roden that turns into an cute wolf (a chip-wolf, if you’ll). It is vitally foolish and cute, and an amusing tackle the basic monster.
It is also not the primary time Alvin and his siblings met a basic Common monster. Very similar to Abbott and Costello, the Chipmunks have been on a path to fulfill each main Common monster at one level, beginning with Frankenstein in 1999’s “Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet Frankenstein” earlier than their “Wolfman” crossover in 2000. (Sadly, not one of the Chipmunks get was Frankenstein’s monster through the former.) Sadly, the chipmunks by no means obtained to fulfill Dracula. A 3rd “Meet” movie was proposed following “Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet the Wolfman,” nevertheless it was canceled after franchise creators Ross Bagdasarian Jr. and Janice Karman sued Common for breach of contract and gained the rights to the characters again in 2000 — that means, Common might now not make extra direct-to-home-media “Chipmunks” animated motion pictures. C’est la vie.
