Paul Dellevigne on The Wolves

I’ve always been fascinated by werewolf movies. As a teenager, I watched all of them, from Teen Wolf to The Howling. I loved them all, even the cheesy short in Deadtime Stories. Part of me was fascinated by the concept of the “wolf” as repressed male sexual predator, but I also loved how The Howling presented lycanthropy as a communal concept, all genders welcome. 

When I started writing “The Wolves,” I was very much focused on the idea of lycanthropy being non-sexual. In the presented context, it is simply a virus. It is easily spread, and it does not discriminate.