Blog post 2

When I think about the werewolf, I think about a monstrous hairy beast. It has a elongated snout with razor sharp teeth. With yellow or red eyes, and long sharp claws. Many other people most likely think close to the same, if not the same thing when they imagine a werewolf. The werewolves that I think of are the ones from "The Underworld" series. In the movies, the werewolves are in a deadly war with vampires. The werewolves in "The Underworld," are very interesting. The way they transform is not how our readings have described it. In the movie, the lycans, seem to transform whenever they want. They can be changed in the middle of the day, or as soon as a fight breaks out. It also seems like that they are not in any noticeable pain during there transformation. I am going to compare the transformation of the werewolves in "The Underworld" with the werewolf from "The American Werewolf in London." We watched a clip from this movie during class, and prior to this I had never hear nor watched this movie. So, in "The American Werewolf in London," the man undergoes his transformation at night during a full moon. As the full moon is shining brightly through his window, he begins his transformation. It is obvious that right away he is in excruciating pain. You can hear his skin stretching, and you can see his bones growing. Even if there wasn't any audio it would be clear that he was in agony. With the werewolf in "The Underworld," they seem to be of a lower class. They are almost savage in nature, and that is how I have always "known" the werewolf. They were usually peasants, or of a lower class. They were usually isolated in a dense woods with no neighbors. Even in "The Underworld," the lycans isolate themselves from everyone else, and they are in a war with the high class vampires.