This September, in honor of the Harvest Moon, Spectacle is proud to bring you three underseen gems of werewolf-dom.
LYCAN COLONY
dir. Rob Roy, 2006
United States. 92 min.
In English.
TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 2nd – 10PM
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 6th – 7:30PM
MONDAY SEPTEMBER 15th – 7:30PM
FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 19TH – MIDNIGHT
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Some small towns hold many secrets. Two siblings and a newly settled doctor’s family are about to find out this town’s darkest secret…the hard way. The town folk are good and evil werewolves! And all things are not as they appear.
While you can probably count the werewolf features from the early aughts on one hand, the best of them for this programmers money is LYCAN COLONY.
It’s clearly a labor of love, and though it may have gotten the RiffTrax treatment in 2020, I would respectfully argue that it makes enough baffling and unique choices that it circles around past bad into something totally singular, dirt cheap digital (and practical) effects and all.
Director Rob Roy has had a strong connection to wolves his entire life. It started after he first saw Balto (1995) and it inspired him to create his own wolf film which eventually became Lycan Colony. He even attempted to contact Kevin Bacon for a cameo but was chased off the actor’s property, ironically by dogs in 2003. – Imdb Trivia
MOM
dir. Patrick Rand, 1990.
United States. 95 min.
In English.
TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 2ND – 7:30PM
FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 5TH – MIDNIGHT
MONDAY SEPTEMBER 15TH – 10PM
FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 19TH – 10PM
A string of ferocious animal attacks terrorizes Los Angeles, and when a kind elderly woman is bitten by the creature, she begins a terrifying transformation. Now, her son Clay must stop his mother from harming anyone else and find a way to reverse her horrifying condition.
Starring horror legend Brion James (HOUSE 3, BLADE RUNNER) and Jeanne Bates (ERASERHEAD, MULHOLLAND DRIVE), MOM presents as a typical comedy-horror flick but quickly evolves into something much darker that will stay with you long after the credits roll. Using the werewolf as an analogy for a degenerative disease, Rand masterfully guides the audience through the emotional tolls of watching a loved one lose themselves and become something unrecognisably monstrous.
LONE WOLF
dir. John Callas, 1988
United States. 97 min.
In English.
FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 5TH – 10PM
TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 9TH – 10PM
WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 17TH – 10PM
MONDAY SEPTEMBER 22ND – 7:30PM
The quiet town of Fairview, Colorado is rocked by a rash of gruesome killings that the locals blame on packs of wild dogs. Meanwhile, recent Chicago transplant and heavy metal frontman, Eddie and his fellow students learn that they must take matters into their own hands to end the madness, when the token nerd among them discovers an eerie moon-related coincidence between the killings.
Written by the late experimental horror maven, Michael Krueger (NIGHT VISION, MINDKILLER), LONE WOLF is an underseen and underrated gem among the 80s bumper crop of werewolf movies. A grisly DTV creature feature featuring some of the oldest looking “teenagers” ever put to film, and enough hair— human and lycanthrope— to flesh out at least a dozen other werewolf features.