Sunday, September 15, 2013

Colmillos, el Hombre Lobo (Werewolf Transformation)

Colmillos, el Hombre Lobo (1993), is a little-known Mexican horror film about a ranch-hand who turns into a werewolf. What makes the film really interesting is that it's situated before the rise of CGI and clearly influenced by An American Werewolf in London, so the transformation uses prosthetics, inflating bladders, and all the glorious old effects that occur in front of the camera, not in a computer. And though Colmillos is a low-budget film, you can tell that genuine thought and effort went into the transformation scene. All of that makes this a sort of lost gem from the brief era when filmmakers around the world had their eyes on AWIL and not on a computer screen.

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