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Thursday, October 22, 2015

Thursday Movie Picks #67: Halloween Edition - Werewolves


Hello there and welcome to Thursday Movie Picks a weekly series where you share three movie picks each Thursday. The rules are simple simple: Each week there is a topic for you to create a list of three movies. Your picks can either be favourites/best, worst, hidden gems, or if you're up to it one of each.For further details visit the series main page here.
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This week's Thursday Movie Picks is Halloween Edition - Werewolves

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Hey it's October and the whole of this month I'm running the Halloween Edition. Take a look at what's in store for the rest of the weeks.
October 1 - Halloween Edition: Alfred Hitchcock Movies
October 8 - Halloween Edition: Villainous Children (Suggested by Wendell)
October 15 - Halloween Edition: Asian Horror
October 22 - Halloween Edition: Werewolves
October 29 - Halloween Edition: Ghost Movies (Suggested by John Hitchcock)

This is actually the second time I'm running the Halloween edition. If you missed it last year, check out last year's themes below:

October 2 2014 - Unstable Characters (characters that seemed off...eg. Donnie Darko)
October 9 2014 - Zombie Movies
October 16 2014 - Found Footage Movies
October 23 2014 - Vampire Movies
October 30 2014- Haunted Buildings



Hey welcome to another TMP Halloween Edition. This week it's Werewolves! As I try to recall the werewolf movies I've seen, turns out I haven't seen that many. So I am looking for to some suggestions. In random order, here are my picks:

Underworld (2003)
I know Underworld 3: Rise of the Lycans is more fitting for today's theme but I didn't like it so my pick is the first movie from the franchise. Love the futuristic world Underworld created in which the vampire and lycans are battling in an ongoing war that is centuries old.
 
Dog Soldiers (2002)
A squad of British soldiers is in a remote part of the Scottish Highlands for a military exercise when they find themselves hunted by a pack of werewolves. They seek shelter at an empty country house and prepare for a battle they are utterly unprepared for as the werewolves circle the house. Like this movie a lot. Suspenseful, plenty of action and scary too.

 Ginger Snaps (2000)
I really really love the 1st and 2nd act of the movie which is a female coming of age slash werewolf tale where the werewolf transformation is a metaphor for puberty. We all know how so much fewer female coming of stories there are and this one hits the nail on some aspects of it. If I wasn't lazy at finding gifs, this post would have been filled with several awesome Ginger Snaps gifs. While I like much of the dark humour, there were still times when it was just a little too morbid - Brigitte and Ginger are certainly more more morbidly creative than Harold (from Harold and Maude). Anyway...the third act happened and it went all out werewolf story, seemingly dropping the coming of age aspect and so I found the ending just very disappointing.

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 So that's it...my three picks. What three movies made your list today?

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12 comments:

  1. Katie HoganOctober 22, 2015 at 5:42 AM

    Wehey! Great minds thinks alike again! Both Dog Soldiers and Underworld. I've not seen Ginger Snaps but I remember back in school a few of my friends were obsesssed with it.

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    1. WandererOctober 29, 2015 at 4:18 AM

      Haha I can see why. I'm sure they'd relate to some of the coming of age stuff.

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  2. Brittani BurnhamOctober 22, 2015 at 7:38 PM

    I also went with Underworld. I've never heard of Dog Soldiers, but I know of Ginger Snaps. For some reason I didn't realize that was a werewolf movie. I'm not sure what I thought it was about. lol

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    1. WandererOctober 29, 2015 at 4:20 AM

      I think some of the marketing feature more of the gothness of the girls rather than the werewolf aspect.

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  3. joel65913October 22, 2015 at 9:17 PM

    I've never heard of Dog Soldiers nor Ginger Snaps but Dog Soldiers intrigues me. I've seen bits of Underworld, it's never caught my attention enough to keep watching though.

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    1. WandererOctober 29, 2015 at 4:26 AM

      Aww that's a pity with Underworld. It's one of the, I think, few vampire/werewolf movies that was going for a mix of action and horror and does it well.

      I don't know why Dog Soldiers isn't more well known. As for Ginger Snaps, it's quite a cult hit now.

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  4. BirgitOctober 22, 2015 at 10:49 PM

    I haven't seen any of these and Dog Soldiers sounds good but also sounds like it would give me nightmares

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    1. WandererOctober 29, 2015 at 4:28 AM

      Haha yes, especially if you're one to live/travel to isolated parts of the country with a wolf population.

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  5. DellOctober 23, 2015 at 7:38 AM

    The original Underworld works just fine. The only thing Underworld 3 is a better fit for is the trash can.

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    1. WandererOctober 29, 2015 at 4:30 AM

      Yes! It is so unnecessary. The first two movies did an adequate job already with all the backstory.

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  6. AnonymousOctober 23, 2015 at 9:24 AM

    Love Dog Soldiers and Ginger Snaps! Two movies which I also picked this week.

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    1. WandererOctober 29, 2015 at 4:32 AM

      Yay! Someone has seen Ginger Snaps! I thought surely it'd been a popular pick.

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