The raplacement villan, Brian Thompson, was in Kindred: The Embraced. A show based on the roleplaying game Vampire the Masquerade.... Just saying...

Been watching your videos for a while now, and I enjoy all of them. Thank you Lupa for for all your work here!

Oh Lupa, you have no idea. This show, believe it or not, was my introduction to horror. I was a young kid back when this was on (my God, I'm old) like eight, or nine, and wasn't allowed to watch many moives, as my religious mom didn't like them: but I was allowed to have a TV in my room (she messed up there) and I used to watch this. It scared the HELL out of me. Some weeks I watched it, some, frankly, I couldn't get up the nerve. But it hooked me and made me want to watch more horror fare. Me and my best friend (at the time) would always meet up at school the next Monday (it aired Saturday) and compare notes about it. I actually haven't seen it since, and kind of don't want to, as I know it won't be anywhere as scary as I remember, and might even seem....CHEESY! and I want to remember it as it was. But thanks for bringing back the good (and bad) merories of my childhood.

No-one uses Big-lipped-alligator- moments anymore...
This review led to several opportunities, but I understand why Lupa didn't because she meant this to be serious, I mainly meant the site in general, reviewers keep missing opportunities.

Ok, that last monlogue was cheesy :P but still chilling :)

i thought it was pretty deep man.

I also remember this from when I was younger. Not sure exactly how young, I'd guess 12 or 13 at the time. I remember it being kinda spooky, although that might have been osmosis from the other shows it was sandwiched in between (Friday the 13th The series - which really deserves a series of reviews on this site - and Freddy's Nightmares). It did sorta give a kind of sympathetic look at what it meant to be cursed with something supernatural, obviously riding on the (late) coattails of American Werewolf in London, which was to its credit.

Also, yeah, you got a much better vibe about the villains - particularly with the bounty hunter, who was an improvement over very flat characters who played the same role in other series (Like the A-Team and the Incredible Hulk). And yeah, the first "other" werewolf was a great character too, and probably carried a lot of the series.

Yeah, Brian Johnson was on K:tE, but was also the original alien assassin on the X-Files. Seeing how all three series were on the Fox Network (yeah, Werewolf was on Fox, way way way at the early days of the network), they did pretty right by him in throwing him a consistent paycheck. I have to admit though, that 80's fluffy hair does not match his square block-face. They needed to pick one or the other.

So is Lupa the official werewolf reviewer on the site now? XD

I watched that movie on the poster, Werewolf vs. Vampire Woman, aka La Noche de Walpurgis...such cheesy fun.

The RIAA are the Anti-Christ!

Anyway...

Since you're so into werewolves I would love to hear what you think of the Lou Diamond Phillips show, "Wolf Lake".

I dont think you need to mention things that happened in previous episodes again as long as those episodes do a good job with the story and the characters slowly change.

For a minute, I thought this was going to be that movie where they kept saying "Warwilf" instead.

Also, that bounty hunter character: he's basically that reporter that kept chasing the Hulk.

And that guitar riff: the equivalent of the piano solo of The Hulk's closing credits.

That is, bar none, the most awesomest title card ever.
I don't even know why werewolf pirate cap'n crunch is shoving Earnie's rubber duckie down his throat, but it is awesome.

To be honest, I think I would have watched and loved this show for Joe- he is a shoe-in for what little me (heck, current me for that matter) finds bad-ass. Sad that the main show wasn't as interesting as the stuff surrounding Joe though- he really strikes me as a good supporting character more than a main character, so if he could play against a better actor in a show that had more thought put into it...

Oh well. No use crying over spilt milk.

That actually seemed like worth watching. Thanks Lupa.

Ah yes, I have a lot of great memories of this show. As far as Chuck Conners goes, my understanding is that when they origionally negotiated for Chuck to do the pilot, they also negotiated a very high rate for his apperances in the final show if it got picked up.
Of course when it was picked up, they found themselves looking at making the series with a main villain they couldn't afford for more than half the episodes, and came up with the story to swap him for Brian Thomas so they could have a main bad guy who wasn't so over budget.
Of course Chuck was so pissed off over how they screwed over his character that he refused the episodes, the show's makers brought in a body double, there was arguments and a lawsuit over the show trying not to pay Chuck, it was a mess.
Though actually the werewolf rules were fairly straightforward and mostly fit with what was laid out in the pilot:
The timing of werewolf transformations was mostly pretty random, sometimes going months between, sometimes every night. The two exceptions to this in the show were that werewolves regenerating from being killed in human form would transform in the process, and the werewolves who had given in to their wolf side could will themselves to transform.
Which is also the core story progression, Eric's best friend explained how after being bitten he had over time found the werewolf slowly becoming stronger inside him - Initially he'd chained himself up for every transformation to keep from killing people, but eventually he stopped. Likewise he had transformed when Eric was sleeping in the same house and easy prey, but had been able to hold himself back.
And in the show, Eric only murdering bad people was intended as an extension of that, where while he still had the humanity to hold back the werewolf from killing people he saw as inocent or good, that restraint was limited.
I read somewhere that the creators were looking to make an element of the second season be Eric's humanity starting to erode a bit more as his lycanthropy progressed, but they never got the chance.

This show looks like a heaping pile of MEH

Look up the song "werewolf" by Five man electric band on Youtube. It would make a great intro song for your werewolf stuff.

Another solid retrospective, Lupa.

So that's where the bad guy from Stallone's Cobra (PIG!) was working before his riveting role as Shao khan in MK: Anihilation...

This show harkens back to the time when television producers thought they could get away with telling hour-long stories in half-hour format. The stories suffered as a result, and eventually they gave up on the idea.

I remember trying this show out a couple times and wanting to like it... but not succeeding. I thought the effects weren't too bad, but the story was all over the place. A shame.

Hey Lupa,

since I first saw your videos and all the reviews of movies/shows based on werewolfes, I had a few questions in my mind.
i'm excited, what you'd say.
So:

What do you think of the ginger Snaps series?
Do you like the movies or not, will you do reviews of them, do you think there isn't enough to talk about?
What's the pitch?

I've seen Ginger Snaps, the first one was great, the second was a bit iffy, the third was terrible but had great effects.

I don't think I'll review them though, but the first one is a great werewolf flick.

I remember watching this. If I remember right, it was one of the first shows on the brand spanking new Fox network, along with shows like "Parker Lewis Can't Lose", "Danger Theater", "21 Jump Street", etc. And yes, Chuck Connors was awesome.

I thought it was interesting that Connors' character had the same name as the vampire in the "Night Stalker" movie.

personally, I love the 80s guitar rift! I'm tempted to watch this series now.

I remember really liking this show as a kid, but watching your review I wonder how many episodes I actually saw. I remember the pilot pretty clearly, and I vaguely remember the witch episode, but the one where the bounty hunter gets bitten and the death of the old werewolf aren't familiar at all.

"For a minute, I thought this was going to be that movie where they kept saying "Warwilf" instead."

Yeah, me too... too bad. There are few things funnier than seeing a werewolf in a security guard uniform driving around in a car.

Mind you, that guitar riff (and the synth pad in the background) is quintessentially, awesomely 80's! I don't blame them for using it every chance they got.

An "Airwolf" review would be pretty cool too.

To base a TV show on the traditional mythology of the werewolf simply being a mindless beast.
That does seem doomed to fail.

Since it is just a matter of incredibly good luck that this guy only kills bigotted, chain smoking, rapist, truck driving, sociopaths who likes Phil Collins...and so who cares.

It is not as if he chose to punish the person for liking Phil Collins any way.

They should change the mythology to be both a blessing and a curse.

So that at New Moon an individual suffering from lycanthropy can turn into the wolf at will and (s)he will be of sound mind and fully able to control their actions.

This way the werewolf would be able to use the powers of the beast for good.

Yet as the moon progresses towards being full. The werewolf loses still more of his(er) self control and free will.
Culminating in complete beastial frenzy as the fullmoon rises. The wolf causing mindless killing and destruction. Which the hero would have to rectify with the comming of the next New Moon.

Now that would be a good premise for a TV show about werewolfs

I saw more similarities there

The bounty hunter was the most interesting character in the show, mostly because of his Raymond Chandleresque monologues. I still remember his speech about how, if a flower talked to a man, that man would scream.

As I mentioned, the werewolves in this aren't mindless beasts, their EVIL beasts. But for a while, new werewolves can bend their inner wolf's need to kill to avoid going after certain people. However as time passes, not only will that control erode, but the inner wolf will start to exert more and more influence over the human side - a point emphasised in the pilot where Eric's friend explained, "At first, I made a point of locking myself up every time I saw the sign and realized the chance was coming. Then after a few months I stopped locking myself up. I didn't want to anymore."