The Oh, Hi everyone and welcome back to the Faculty of Horror

Podcasting from the Harrod Halls of Academia. I'm Alex West with Andrea

Subasati.

And while we are not quite in the dog days of summer, it is definitely getting a little bit

warmer here in the room org vault.

There's not a lot of ventilation in this room. But we are so lucky to have this space and we are here to talk about something that I really wanted to talk about for a while. something that I feel has always kind of

simmered beneath the surface of real popular culture infiltration but has a lot of

love from horror fans and that's were wolves. Yeah I feel like we've put it off because in our first

year of podcasting we did cover ginger snaps and that was in the context of maturity and puberty and

that is a theme that comes up in a lot of

wherewolves but Ginger Snaps does it so well that I felt like we blew our load

like what else do we have to say about this monster? So we took some time with it, and then we picked two movies

that treat the subject very, very differently,

differently from each other,

differently from ginger snaps,

differently from a lot of werewolf movies I'd say.

And there is a pretty big delineation when we talk about werewolves.

There is of course the famous universal wolfman who is part of the Universal Monsters.

And then as you get into the 80s with films such as The Howling, The Company of Wolves, and another film we're going to talk about today, you have a more contemporary orientation on the werewolf mythos.

And I think what's important is the universal monster in the wolf man really bridged a gap between Wolf as Monster and

Wolf as Tragic Figure.

And what I think contemporary werewolf films have done is continue to bridge that gap and look at different ways that

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