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An aspiring zoologist develops an unusual relationship with a feral stranger in the woods. This "werewolf" forces her to reconsider how she perceives human nature and begs the question, do we control our primal urges, or do they control us?
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Adam LapalloWriter
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Project Type:Screenplay
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Number of Pages:98
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Country of Origin:United States
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Language:English
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First-time Screenwriter:No
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Student Project:No
Adam Lapallo is a writer and filmmaker from Richmond, VA. His past awards include winning the Virginia Screenwriting Contest in 2017 for his TV pilot "Wolfpack Fencers" and winning Best Un-Produced Feature Screenplay at the South Carolina Underground Film Festival in 2018 for "88 Fingers." He is an active member of the Virginia Screenwriter's Forum, where he critiques monthly screenplays with his colleagues.
I've wanted to write a werewolf movie for a long time, ever since my vampire screenplays "The Crimson Legacy" and "Strigoi" took off, but could never find an angle on the genre that I could really make my own. The lore on werewolves is somewhat restrictive and containing, which is why most werewolf movies feel so repetitive and predictable. However, a search on the origins of werewolf mythology led me to the study of clinical lycanthropy, the delusion of wolf metamorphosis and likely the root of the modern werewolf, along with other psychological/medical conditions (hypertrichrosis, schizophrenia, rabies). The idea of "building" a werewolf out of existing human traits was fascinating to me, and that's what sparked the character of Lobo--a rabid schizophrenic with an excess of body hair and clinical lycanthropy.