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First Look at New Werewolves from Howling Remake: Howling Reborn

Arrow In The Head has the first picture of one of the new werewolf designs from Howling Reborn up on their site, saying: “The werewolf you see below is one of the henchmen werewolves. Flat snout. The head werewolves have the classic HOWLING sticking out snouts. I know you’re all better people for knowing this.”

Howling Reborn new werewolf design My honest reaction: this sucks it. I don’t like that there are both werewolves with snouts and werewolves without snouts. What, they couldn’t afford snouts for everybody? Well, I guess at least they get points for not using CG snouts… unless that’s how the snouty wolves actually get their snouts! That fucking better not be the case.

Call me a pessimist, but here’s why I am not loving the look of the new werewolves, henchmen or not:

#1: you don’t see wolves in the wild with vastly different snout sizes. The size of their schnoz does not magically change based on their rank in the pack. Obviously, this is also true for humans. So why should werewolves be any different? Even though I prefer a good sized snout like those in the original Howling, I don’t have anything against shorter-snouted werewolves like Lon Chaney Jr’s Wolf Man or Michael J Fox’s Teen Wolf. But mixing the two is just not necessary and not cool.

#2: will Lord of the Rings sue? When I look at that picture, I see an orc, or maybe a goblin, or some other fantasy creature. This doesn’t seem horrory or werewolfy enough to me.

#3: will Underworld sue? This reminds me a lot of their wolf-vampire hybrid, although he didn’t have ears like goddamn Gizmo the Gremlin.

Perhaps time will help me grow more accustomed to this new breed of werewolf. Perhaps Howling Reborn won’t totally drag its ass across the carpet and lick its own red rocket like I’m afraid that its going to. I really hope so, because what I’m seeing so far is confirming my worst fears… they are totally going to piss all over The Howling with this remake.