Wolf

is one of the better Jack Nicholson movies, I would say.

You are Wolfman.

The Wolf or Wolfman, whatever the fuck it was, is better than this.

Just Wolf.

Wolf, in that movie,

Uh, James Spader.

He's, he's, like, he's old now, but remember him in Wolf with, uh, Jack Nicholson?

Oh, yeah, dude.

That movie was banging.

W- Wolf is, uh, that's something I, I can't rem- we've probably brought that up o- o- on, uh, the Spooktacular before, but, like, Wolf is a...

That is a fine movie, man.

I, I don't care...

And that, with that, yeah.

And that was, uh, that House of Wax and Wolf.

That was Eli Roth that did that.

I forgot that, yeah.

I think so, yeah.

'Cause I figure now, like right now I can get the circuit confused.

And Wolf was supposed to work on the other, right?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

First we're going to put a remake in the dock and ask if there's any justification for its existence.

This time it's going to be the 2010 version of the universal classic The Wolfman.

Then we have a parole hearing for a film that didn't work the first time and ask whether a remake would fix its problems.

That's going to be the curious Jack Nicholson, Michelle Pfeiffer film Wolf from 1994.

So Alan, thoughts on the cases on this month's tribunal?

Well, the Wolfman, the 2020 Wolfman, I've never actually seen, so this was probably the first time I watched it for the podcast.

Yeah, same.

Yeah, where the wolf from 1984, the only time I actually ever watched that was when I went to see it at the cinema on its release, and I have never watched it since.

So it's full werewolves, full moon, howling, and all of the prosthetics and hairy makeup.

We're sitting here in our Teen Wolf outfits as we record.

LAUGHTER But Alan, what are your thoughts on that genre? What's your relationship to

werewolf films? I would say...

Where they looked like they were trying to do something different with it.

And it didn't, I don't think it came off.

And it reminded me of the film we're doing for our parole board, Wolf, which is another film, which I thought was a fascinating idea, which didn't come off.

And one of the things we're doing that is, you know, You know, we're optimistic about movies and we're talking about our own ideas when we talk about that parole board where we say, oh, how would we do it differently? And the question is, well, would you make that film? And it's like, well, you wouldn't talk about it for 20 minutes and they say, no, that idea I just came up with is crap.

... certainly some contact lens work going on, so.

The, I just think they've got a long way to go to catch up with the definitive werewolf film, which is of course, Wolf.

[laughs]

[laughs] So many indefensible statements being made today.

Not, not Teen Wolf Too?

No, I'm, I'm sticking with Wolf.

[laughs] Oh, God.

At no point in Teen Wolf Too does anyone piss on James Beder's shoes.

And then 94...

I watched this movie on a plane a couple days ago, a Mike Nichols film called Wolf.

And this is such a weird film because it is like Mike Nichols, Jack Nicholson, and it is literally just the most straightforward werewolf movie you'll ever see.

It is literally just Jack Nicholson's a guy who runs a company and works in a magazine or whatever, and he gets bitten by a wolf, and he starts to turn into a werewolf.

What a banger.

It is also just like so straightforward.

You can kind of compare it to Wolf.

Because of the title being one word.