Director Eric Red, who wrote one of my favorite 80’s horror films, The Hitcher, has shared several never-before-seen seen storyboards from the 1996 werewolf horror film Bad Moon with Arrow in the Head.
The writer told the site:
The highlight of my movie BAD MOON is the climactic dog werewolf fight involving a battle-to-the death between the family German shepherd and the wolf man the uncle has become. It was a unique action sequence unlike anything that had been filmed before because of its integration of animal action and creature effects. This complicated set piece had to be coordinated with live animals, special makeup effects, animatronics, dog dummies, pyro, and other physical effects, so it had to be storyboarded with intricate precision. Here’s the storyboards for the dog werewolf fight. As you can see, the final sequence was pretty close to how it was pre-viz’d!
It’s always fascinating to see how things are planned in advance so that the final product is essentially “seen” before even one frame is committed to film.
Check out a few of the storyboards below and see the rest at the link above.
