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WEREWOLVES IN THE EIGHTIES

■ So, we now know the inspiration for the game was after the 1978 Warren Zevon song of the and . This was swiftly capitalised on by Michael Jackson for his wildly popular music video a couple of years later. He even hired the same director, John Landis, who had directed . That was followed in cinemas by the underrated , the great and the not so great . Talking of sequels, had no less than four sequels come out in the Eighties alone. But this writer’s favourite werewolf is from a film released in the same year as , 1987 – the werewolf from the cult classic . Dynamite down his trousers doesn’t stop him, but a swift kick in the groin will, “Wolfman’s got nards!”

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