Three favorite werewolf movies...

[Hammerfest]

My three favorite werewolf movies are (not in any particular order:

1. The Wolfman (2010). This film wasn't successful at the box office, but I really liked it because, quite frankly, I'm not a fan of the Twilight/Underworld style werewolves. The werewolf in this film was achieved primarily by Rick Baker make-up. CGI was used primarily for the lupine-jointed legs and the transformation scenes. It's a visually sumptuous remake of the Lon Chaney Jr classic. The film was directed by Joe Johnston (The Rocketeer, Captain America: The First Avenger) and stars Anthony Hopkins, Benicio Del Toro, Emily Blunt and Hugo Weaving. Before the movie even begins, the film displays a recreation of the same Universal logo used in the original film...






2. An American Werewolf In London (1981). There were two watershed werewolf movies that came out in the early 80s. One was called The Howling and it almost made the list, but it didn't because the overall movie isn't all that great. The other film was An American Werewolf In London and it's in my top three because it is a genre-bending film that wields bathos like a cleaver. You don't know, one moment to the next, if you will be laughing or cringing in horror/terror. Directed by John Landis, this film also features the make-up of a much younger Rick Baker.




3. Bad Moon (1996). A film adaption of the novel "Thor" by Wayne Smith, Bad Moon bombed at the box office. However, the film is unique in that it is basically about a rivalry that forms between a family's dog (Thor) and a werewolf that has staked a territorial claim behind their house. That concept makes the film stand out. The scene where the dog finds the werewolf handcuffed to a tree in the woods is the moment when you realize this movie is different. The film stars Michael Pare and Mariel Hemmingway. The various dogs who played Thor delivered very good performances. The werewolf here is a large bipedal humanoid wolf. It is a physical effect, but there is some rather poor morphing in the film during the film's one transformation scene. (It was acceptable in 1996, but has not aged well.)






Anyone have any favorites of their own?

[roninwookie]

1. American Werewolf in London. Effing classic. Great effects and great story. 8/10 scares. That howl still scares the fuk outta me.
2. the first 2/3 of Wolfman 2010. Not scary at all but still a good retelling. The end is....contrived and feels forced. 6/10 remake value
3. Tie between Dog Soldiers and Underworld. Dog Soldiers was a nice change for werewolf movies, giving us a very action heavy yet still suspenseful movie. Underworld gave as a really good vampire vs werewolf movie and as a young teenager that's all I really wanted! both 8/10 action werewolves

[Dug]

Twilight 1, 2 and 3 and 4 and 5

[Doctor Amadeus]

Hairy Potter

[Farrarie]

1- badmoon dam the werewolf looks was menacing "similar to the description of many eye witnesses who have seen a dogman".
the story was great only the transformation was too cgi.
2-gingersnaps love the story of the two sisters
3-dog soldiers dam that story was unique

there is a tv series that had an episode of a similar to a werewolf monster who attack and kill homeless kids. cant forget that episode I saw it when I was a kid,
its a series of supernatural detective but it was so long ago, that I forgot the series name I will be happy if someone know it and tell me the name of the series.

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Hairy Potter

lol my brother young sons saw the werewolf of harry potter and they laughed so hard. when I showed them badmoon they cried lol
but the transformation of harry potter was good and the story

[Fat Mac]

Silver Bullet with Corey Haim was awesome




i thought the werewolves in Underworld were pretty cool



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Hairy Potter

Hairy? was that meant to be a pun?

[Farrarie]

Silver Bullet with Corey Haim was awesome

silver bullet had the best scene within the history of cinema
werewolf vs rednecks

[Hammerfest]

Silver Bullet with Corey Haim was awesome

Silver Bullet almost made my top three as well. I was a kid when it came out and I had a bit of a crush on actress Megan Follows (who also starred in Anne of Green Gables). Years later I read Stephen King's book Cycle Of The Werewolf (which also featured art by Bernie Wrightson). The idea of a paraplegic boy taking on a werewolf was very special indeed.

[Viikkis]

Can't name three but Dog Soldiers is hilarious!

[Taeldorian]

Underworld movies.

Werewolf: the beast among us (2012). I thought this was actually really damn good.

My favorite take on how werewolves should look is in those two movies. I feel like werewolf and wolfman should be two completely separate things but some werewolf movies use "the wolfman" as their design for the werewolf. I dislike that a lot. Underworld and Werewolf:the beast among us did it perfectly.

[Deleted]

Personally, I feel like oWoD defines an actual werewolf in the best possible way;



Yes, you have the human form (Homid), and you have the wolf form (Lupus), but you also have the actual werewolf forms; the "near-man" (Glabro), the "near-wolf" (Hispo), and then of course the best form of them all, the war form, the wolf-man (Crinos). In most werewolf movies and TV-shows, and often in books as well, the werewolves are depicted having, in addition to their human form, at least the Glabro or the "near-man", or the Crinos, war form. Personally I don't even count people who can simply shift into wolf form and take none of the in-between forms, as true werewolves. They're just simple shapeshifters, with a simple animal form, nothing more. As such, neither Twilight nor True Blood for example, had actual werewolves in them. Of course this is just my own personal two cents as a hybrid werewolf purist, and sure, there have been myths about "werewolves" for hundreds if not thousands of years, where people have seen wolves, and thought a person had shifted into wolf form, and no actual hybrid forms were even thought of. Still, if all you can do is take the form of a mangy dog, shush.

As for the favorite werewolf movies, I'd have to say Silver Bullet due to me having been like 6 or 7 when I watched it (I watched horror really early), Dog Soldiers because it was just so amazing (There is no Spoon!) and as a third one, albeit a somewhat different kind of a werewolf movie, Wolf from 1994 with Jack Nicholson. I mean, it had a Glabro in it so I'm fine with that. I just liked it for some reason.

Underworld movies had pretty decent Crinos forms, but they're really not werewolf movies as much as they are Kate Beckinsale in latex pants -soft porn. And some Rhona Mitra. Twilight movies don't really have actual werewolves nor actual vampires in them, just emo and sparkle and fluffy little puppy boys.

Also, this is a TV-show, not a movie, but one of my favorites as well:

[sircaw]

Maybe not a werewolf film but i remember watching Wolfen as a kid, about wolfs running around in some city like New York and killing people from their eye view, put me off horror films for ever.

[ItachiZaku]

I guess I haven't been that much into Werewolf movies. Underworld is pretty much it - some of the older stuff like American Werewolf in London or the Howling series I don't have fresh memories of. I did watch some shows though, like Bitten and Hemlock Grove.

[Stormcall]

American Werewolf in London, Dog Soldiers, The Howling

[Hammerfest]

There are good werewolf movies?

The question of the thread is "what are your favorite" werewolf movies, not "what werewolf movies are good?" There's a difference.

[Altrec]

Silver Bullet
Ginger Snaps
The Howling/American Werewolf in London/Underworld

[Lex Icon]

i really liked The Howling and An American Werewolf in London as a kid.. don't really recall any other that sticks out to me.

[Orby]

American Werewolf in London: Saw this when I was a kid, it scared the crap out of me, maybe I was too young for it, but I remember being exposed to too much horror as a child, I blame my dad lol. The special effects int hois movie still hold up pretty well. I just look at this movie now and probably think of all the CGI we would use now days.

Dog Soldiers: What a surprise of a movie, I went in with the intent of hating this movie, but I heard it was a pretty cheap horror movie, not with a big budget at all, and it's amazing it has that sens eof dread. which reminds me of the first Alien movie. It isn't the monster and a bunch of guys to kill it's really about these characters and you wanting to see them survive

Ginger Snaps: Loved this movie as I never saw it on the cinema, but I remember seeing it on TV, and it was amazing, what I liked most was the friendship dynamic between the two leads. It's a movie that goes beyond just being a werewolf movie but I like it.

[Hammerfest]

Ginger Snaps: Loved this movie as I never saw it on the cinema, but I remember seeing it on TV, and it was amazing, what I liked most was the friendship dynamic between the two leads. It's a movie that goes beyond just being a werewolf movie but I like it.

Ginger Snaps is worth mentioning and I'm glad you did. This was the film that sorta launched Katherine Isabel as a prominent "scream queen" (having later starred in films like Freddy Vs Jason and See No Evil 2). I've read it described as a "feminist werewolf story." I don't know about that, but I did appreciate the way the film turned a typical werewolf story on its ear simply by switching the gender of the main character(s).