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One can make werewolves interesting without having to resort to over-the-top supernatual powers that have nothing to do with being part wolf or part human. It's not a huge disabling to exclude some of the more exotic or bizarre powers sometimes attributed to werewolves in spite of their counterintui...

The Francis Ford Coppala version of Dracula that came out in the early nineties ("Dra-cool-a") used nearly all old-school effects, and it made for a very dreamlike and well-done movie. Then again, CGI effects were hit-and-miss. Terminator 2 was frighteningly realistic, while Lost in Space ...

Gah! I saw that list and thought first about the U2 song "Numb."

I understand that wolves tend to favor deep bass sounds. When howling, the one with the lowest pitched howl gets the most respect. Low bass also has a lower frequency--an annyoing, beat-up-looking low rider cruising the neighborhood at two in the morning emits its irritating rachet around 50-100 Hz,...

Oh, and Silverfang, I'm not a lawyer, but... (I'm a doctor, so I've been waiting for a chance to say I'm not something.) I would expect that your name should be legit. It's all a matter of context. If you lead a tribe of werewolves known for their royal lineage or who were reknown among werewolf soc...

Don't knock White Wolf back too much. For those who have no idea what the heck we're talking about, White Wolf Game Studio is the publisher of Werewolf: the Apocalypse , a role-playing game about werewolf society. That game was created as a followup to their highly successful Vampire: the Masquerade...

If one of us (by "us" I mean die-hard fans, as opposed to someone interested but not a die-hard, or someone just casually glancing at this site for that matter) suddenly got afflicted with lycanthropy, the sudden shock that it's real would throw one's sense of reality out the window. And t...

Different therianthropic shifters have human forms in common, and that I would imagine in any realm carry with it the ramification of human politics. Humans tend to divide themselves up into groups, and we have this annoying habit of declaring our own group as being superior to any other group. Iron...

I vote for six feet myself, because I'm a huge fan of the laws of physics. I know that werewolves are by design fantastic, but if conservation of mass is applied, I find myself believing that they're really possible, with enough genetic whoplah and bioengineering technobabble. Tripling body weight k...

We die-hards would generally prefer an epic, but two hours would probably be about right for the casual. An hour and a half was the standard of the eighties and early nineties, though they're now fudging to about 100 minutes--that's good for a movie after all the intelligent plot has been edited out...

Or, do full body from a distance and then just do upper torso close-ups in males and views from the back in females.

Oh, bugger. I just thought of the beginning of Austin Powers!

My werewolves can shift in about two or three craniosacral cycles, or about 12-20 seconds. But, that's those who were either born with it or have had it for several years. Someone newly infected shifts a lot more slowly and has a harder time with it. It's painless to those who are accustomed, but th...

It does add in the idea of free will. Does throw a wrench in the works of the relucant werewolf image. But, I understand the logic. However, a relucant werewolf can have it in him or her all along; heck, a reluctant werewolf doesn't have to be bitten, but can be born with it. (Consider the classic f...

My werewolves sweat in human form but not in any form that has fur. Growing fur transforms the skin into one that doesn't have sweat glands. Granted, that's just my take, but my take I feel fits with extrapolated biology. Overall, werewolves I would expect to be advantaged over humans, but I would t...

A-Kon?!? I go there every year! I'll see you there!

I'll probably just be me, but if I had the budget and time, I'd consider cosplaying Boma from Heat Guy J, since I often spend a good part of A-Kon running around, trying to find my sister...

So, I show up to work one day, wagging my furry tail behind me. I get a number of strange looks, wondering how I made it look so real. Then, they look outright astonished when they discover that it is indeed real. "You see," I explain, "there was this topic on a BBS on the Internet......

WE ARE THE MASOCHISTS! Disturbing thought, but it dawned on me as painfully obvious as I re-read this thread. How many of us have daydreamed about getting lycanthropy ourselves? Any hands not up? Not many--maybe the occasional curious surfer who happened into this site. And yet, we love the idea of ...

I agree with ShadowFang wholeheartedly; in medicine, anything that's contageous is a matter of probability. Unprotected intercourse has about a 5% transmission of HIV from female to male, and a considerably higher chance, about 30%, from female to male, because the female is the one who receives bod...

Where's the topic? I'm going to see if there's anything left un-ranted, like shortage of women werewolves, or ears that are too long and not triangular enough.

Wouldn't it just be easier to shift to wolf form to run, and then shift to a hybrid form to stand upright on two legs? It avoids the awkwardness of dinky little legs when standing upright or gangly long legs when running on all fours, or kicking up one's rear end like a 1978 Camero with too many cus...

I voted for full digitgrade. Though I generally picture werewolves being able to shift from plantigrade to digitigrade at will, I generally pictured a digitigrade stance when in mid-form. It's a personal preference, but appearantly I'm with the majority on it. And yes, I'm guilty of wandering around...

Pop music scores tend to date a film pretty quickly; imagine if Star Wars had disco! I'm also not a fan of a lot of what's popular right now; most of my new music is underground bands and alternative. If you do have to have rock songs (which is different from a soundtrack that uses electric guitar a...

Addendum, on the puppy issue: Wolves turned human generally follow wolf biology rules, whereas humans turned wolves seem to be more flexible overall--mainly because most stories today tend to favor humans turned wolf. Rules regarding species apply to naturally occurring species. In my own storyline,...

Oops; meant to post this as a reply in another thread. Ignore this.

It's surprising how often we see in movies the people sticking around without a specific reason to stay put. If we can't have someone running away, we should have reasons for any untimely witnesses to stay put. So, here goes. 1. The petrified with fear: implied and overused, but plausible in the rig...