What is the best werewolf movie of all time?

Practical-effects landmarks share the field with straight-faced comedies, teen metaphors and a couple of films the genre barely remembers. Argue it out.

1

An American Werewolf in London

John Landis's 1981 horror comedy whose transformation scene won the first ever Oscar for makeup.

2

The Wolf Man

The 1941 Universal classic that invented most of the werewolf rules audiences still take for granted.

3

The Howling

Joe Dante's 1981 satire of self-help culture, with Rob Bottin's bladder-effect transformations.

4

Ginger Snaps

A 2000 Canadian cult favorite that turns lycanthropy into a blunt metaphor for puberty.

5

Dog Soldiers

Neil Marshall's 2002 debut, a squad of British soldiers under siege by werewolves in the Highlands.

6

Silver Bullet

The 1985 Stephen King adaptation in which a boy in a motorized wheelchair hunts a small-town werewolf.

7

Wolfen

Michael Wadleigh's 1981 urban thriller using thermal point-of-view shots for its predators in the South Bronx.

8

The Company of Wolves

Neil Jordan's 1984 fairy-tale fever dream, a Red Riding Hood retelling written with Angela Carter.

9

Teen Wolf

The 1985 comedy with Michael J. Fox as a high schooler whose curse makes him the most popular kid in school.

10

Wolf

Mike Nichols's 1994 corporate thriller starring Jack Nicholson as a publisher whose bite sharpens his instincts.

11

The Curse of the Werewolf

Hammer's lush 1961 entry, with Oliver Reed in his first leading role as the cursed Leon.

12

Late Phases

A 2014 indie in which a blind Vietnam veteran in a retirement community works out which neighbor is the beast.

13

Brotherhood of the Wolf

The 2001 French period epic mixing martial arts, costume drama and a monster loose in 18th-century Gévaudan.

14

Werewolves Within

A 2021 whodunit comedy adapted from the video game, with a snowbound town hunting the beast among them.