Welcome to the final instrument of 2026’s Spader September. Quite a few of you have reached out to me telling me that you’ve enjoyed these little write ups, and I really appreciate you reading them. It’s been a long time since I wrote stuff like this, and even though most of them are just jokey (and certainly low effort), it has sort of jumpstarted my desire to write about pop culture again, in maybe a more serious manner.

I hadn’t seen Wolf in forever but I remember my mom really liking it back in the day. For some reason I remember it being a bomb but apparently (according to Wikipedia, anyway) it had favorable reviews and made $131m on a 70m budget. That’s crazy!

In this movie Jack Nicholson plays Will Randall, the EIC of a publishing house, and Spader plays a guy named goddamned Stewart Swinton!!!! Stewart steals Will’s job from under him, then he steals his goddamned wife!!!

But don’t worry. Earlier, Will was bitten by a wolf and didn’t evenbother to go to the doctor so now he’s slowly turning into a werewolf, and he can smell Stewart’s stewarty stench all over her!!! So he does what any rational wolf -bite victim would do and goes over to Stewart’s apartment and bites him on the hand. Now we’ve got two would-be werewolves on our hands, PLUS Michelle Pfeiffer!!! What a mess.

I really liked Wolf, which I didn’t remember much of. I think it was the perfect way to end Spader September, and the perfect way to segue into Halloween programming. Plus, it has this moment, which made me actually say Oh my God out loud like a dipshit:

Wolf doesn’t seem to be on Tubi, but if some Halloween horror challenge is asking you to get lycanthropic this month, perhaps consider this for an entry!

Thanks for spending Spader September with me. I love you!