Phineas and Ferb (Cow Transformation)

Earlier this month I brought you a werebear. Now comes another first--a werecow! This is from the Disney series Phineas and Ferb, and occurred during the episode "That's the Spirit." Moooooooooooo!

(EDIT: the original video was removed from the youtube, but it can be watched here at Dutchbull's site.)

Technically, this could be considered a transgender TF, since the werecow grows udders, but I suspect those were mostly thrown in for comic effect.

Pyaar Ki Ye Ek Kahaani (Werewolf Transformation)

Last time we brought you a Swedish werebear. Today we bring you an Indian werewolf--yet another first for this blog. This comes from an Indian soap-opera/Twilight knock-off called Pyaar Ki Ye Ek Kahaani, which features--you guessed it--a vampire and a werewolf fighting over a woman (the werewolf is called Jeh!). The transformation is ever bit cheesy as you'd expect from an Indian soap and drawn out in all the wrong ways. But the weredude is played by the studly Ritwik Dhanjani, and the morphing isn't much worse than what you get on American TV (though the music and editing are). Also, his werewolf form is what I'd have preferred to see Taylor Lautner turn into--a muscly man-beast with a canine head and tail. Now if only they'd shown some muzzle growth and had more of Ritwik's clothes tear off...

EDIT: the original video was blocked, so here's a replacement, courtesy of Ian Ricky.

Luleå Hockeys "Thriller" (Bear Transformation)

Here's a treat for all you hockey fans out there:

(TF begins around the 30 second mark)
This gives a whole new meaning to Nietzsche's phrase about the "blond beast"...

News Update: The Howling Reborn

Though the buzz wasn't good, I had a sliver of hope for The Howling Reborn, especially for the prospect of seeing someone as beautiful as Landon Liboiron transforming into a werewolf. Pirated copies of the film are floating around online; having just skimmed through one, I'll have to add Landon to the growing list of incredibly handsome actors who were cast as werewolves but never given the chance to have a decent transformation. It's a painfully long list.

  The Howling Reborn has very little of interest on the TF front--a couple of minor morphs not worth posting here. Landon's TF consist of a close up of his eyes morphing. That's it. Isn't it pathetic that three decades after An American Werewolf In London, no one has made a real advance in depicting werewolf transformations? Instead filmmakers throw in a bit of CGI and cross their lazy fingers.

 This film was intended to reboot The Howling, a movie famous for its terrific transformation scene, and it harps a lot on the werewolf as coming-of-age motif, so it's doubly pathetic that it skimps so much on the transformations. I suppose one could excuse this by blaming the budget, but the actual werewolves look good (the suits are high quality) and the British Being Human worked wonders on a TV budget, so I'm skeptical. As for the quality of rest of the film, I can't speak as definitely, having only skimmed it, but yes, there was a lot of cheesy teenage angsting and bad music. The film is a dog. It should have been a wolf.

One Minute Puberty (Age Progression)

(Thanks to the folks at Visible Time for the tip.) One Minute Puberty is a witty, wise, and pretty dazzling animated short that is exactly what its title says. It shows not only the physical transformation of puberty but also the mental ones, and how we hopefully come out of it with a richer, reconstituted sense of self. (Lucky people anyway--mentally I'm still a stunted adolescent!). In the video there might even be a very slight nod at the werewolf-as-puberty metaphor when the title character, sporting newly-grown "hair down there," squats on his haunches and runs on all fours toward a giant breast. If only puberty was that exciting for the rest of us...