User blog comment:Calicokat/Teen Wolf News Meta Part 3/@comment-13965604-20141125142041/@comment-25592265-20141127150326

I'll try and clean up my bibliography/filmography on my blog by next Monday so there's a reasonable list of named or shown materials. I'm not even sure I have them all! Or have them all correct.

(It's having similar tastes to the creative team that really has turned the show into a hobby for me.)

I agree Stiles being tied to a chair is a weaker link. The vibe of the scene, being tied to the chair helplessly transforming back into the monster, adds a reminiscent feeling for me, but I can't be certain.

I didn't want to bog the article down, but Davis has also given more citations like "The people showing up at Lydia's door for the party is an homage to one of my favorite 80's movies, Weird Science" and I remember him saying Danny knowing about werewolves all along was a The Lost Boys homage.

He's called Motel California an "ode to The Shining" and, like in the book, room 217 has bad things going down, but it's also set in 'Fairvale, California,' the location of the Bates Motel in Psycho.

There's a minor scene with a side character from the fifth Dirty Harry flick, The Dead Pool, that becomes a major scene with emotional clout at the climax of Motel California. A throwaway line from the film "Maybe I'll start my own dead pool, and put you on it," I think also becomes a major scene.

It seems to be a pretty deep rabbit hole. The eeriest thing for me is Derek giving a Teen Wolf reference early in the show: "When he shifts on the field, what do you think they're gonna do. Just keep cheering him on?" That and Stiles "Be a werewolf, not a teen wolf."

Eerie because they've given so many names of the films that crop up and made it clear the characters are familiar with them. Are they familiar with Teen Wolf? Because that'd mean…something. I don't know what, besides that Stiles would call himself "Stiles" because his and Stiles' last names are Stilinski?