A New Shirtless Werewolf Saga Begins
Let us move now from the realm of potentially shitty horror to the realm of definitively shitty horror — I speak, of course, of The Howling: Reborn movie, which may do for werewolves what Twilight did for vampires… and, uh, werewolves. Let’s see… whisper thin protagonist? Check. Utterly bland, incapable female who exists solely to get captured and rescued? Check. Werewolves who look like Ambercrombie & Fitch models and who refuse to wear shirts? Big check. And I believe I can officially check this movie off the list of films I’ll ever see unless under duress.
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.