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Nightmare Fuel / Werewolf by Night (2022)

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With so much blood, gore and horror going on rivaling fellow horror-centric Marvel adaptations The New Mutants and Helstrom, it's a miracle that this special presentation wasn't rated TV-MA. Maybe there's a good reason why this is all black and white...


  • The first hunter Elsa kills has his arm chopped off with a blood spray everywhere and then she fires a crossbow to his throat. He then dies by having her cover his mouth so that he chokes on his own blood.
  • After Verussa uses the Bloodstone to turn Jack Russell into his werewolf form, she notes how Jack, a monster hunter- is a monster himself, and begins laughing at how much fun that will ensue now that he's transformed (i.e. using the werewolf to kill Elsa, her own stepdaughter, before killing Jack as well). Immediately afterwards, Werewolf!Jack grabs Verussa's arm with full force, and bites down on it hard. We even get a zoom-in on her face as the werewolf starts chewing on her arm along with her screams of terror. While horrific, it's also very cathartic.
  • Elsa being cornered by the werewolf in a cage. The only thing the viewer gets to see is the werewolf's silhouette as she realizes that she's completely trapped. Thank goodness the werewolf leapt out the top of the cage. Worse, Verussa intentionally transformed Jack into a werewolf both for the sake of killing Jack and hoping to see the werewolf kill Elsa as well.
  • The massacre of the Bloodstone soldiers by Werewolf!Jack is an entire scene of blood and gore, complete with ribs exposed and blood splattering the camera. All while the door that was to be used for a quick exit slowly closes behind them.
  • The brief shots of Man-Thing casting magic and grabbing Jack with his gigantic hand, although thankfully Jack is friends with Ted. The same can't be said for Jovan when he grabs his head and it burns up. Whatever knows fear indeed. Man-Thing then shows the full extent of said magic in the climax, when he grabs Verussa and she becomes a charred skeleton before throwing it at the casket of her own husband.
  • The colorized rerelease takes the campy charm out of Ulysses’s talking corpse, as now his pale, dead clouded eyes, decomposing wounds, and stretched, sallow skin are on full sickening display, looking far more realistic and human than they did in black and white.

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