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“Even a man who’s pure in heart and says
his prayers at night, can become a wolf
when the wolfbane blooms, and the autumn
moon is bright.” -
TheWolf Man
TheWolf Man
(1941)
The beast is unleashed.
In the Universal classic,
Lon Chaney Jr. gets
bitten by old gypsy Bela
Lugosi and a new horror
film icon is born. One of
the all time greats.
IWas aTeenage
Werewolf
(1957)
Long before
Little
House on the Prairie
,
Michael Landon was a
rebel without claws...
until a bit of regressive
hypnosis transforms him
into the ultimate juvenile
delinquent.
The Howling
(1981)
Joe Dante’s love letter to
the werewolf cycle is a
quirky, in-joke laden romp
with eye-popping FX
from Rob Bottin. Inspired
no end of abysmal
sequels. The original and
the best.
Silver Bullet
(1985)
Over earnest but bloody
adaptation of Stephen
King’s novella
Cycle of
the Werewolf
is a guilty
pleasure. Notable for a
bloated Gary Busey and
the screen debut of the
late, great Corey Haim.
TeenWolf
(1985)
Growing pains for
teenager Michael J. Fox
– who sprouts hair in
places his mother never
told him – in this moronic
but harmless high school
comedy. Followed by
a sequel and animated
series.
Wolf
(1994)
Mike Nichols’ supposedly
sophisticated and
intelligent take on
lycanthropy was an
interminable snoozefest
not even Jack Nicholson
could salvage. Woof.
Ginger Snaps
(2000)
Ingeniously linking
adolescent angst
with animal agro, this
dark, estrogen-fuelled
independent gem spilled
fresh blood into a genre
facing extinction from
too many lousy
Howling
sequels.
An AmericanWerewolf in London
(1981)
Stick to the roads. Stay off the moors. And beware the
moon! John Landis’s classic horror comedy subverted
audience expectations and rewrote established
werewolf lore. It also revolutionised special makeup
FX, elevating the art from novelty to Oscar-worthy.
The Company
ofWolves
(1984)
Director Neil J/ordan
reimagines ‘Little Red
Riding Hood’ as a lurid,
bizarre fairytale awash in
nightmarish imagery and
eroticism – and a refusal
to make a great deal of
sense.
Werewolves