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What is the best werewolf movie of all time?

by YPB Team

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 — ranked #11
    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 — ranked #22
    The Wolf Man
    The 1941 Universal classic that invented most of the werewolf rules audiences still take for granted.
  3. The Howling — ranked #33
    The Howling
    Joe Dante's 1981 satire of self-help culture, with Rob Bottin's bladder-effect transformations.
  4. Ginger Snaps — ranked #44
    Ginger Snaps
    A 2000 Canadian cult favorite that turns lycanthropy into a blunt metaphor for puberty.
  5. Dog Soldiers — ranked #55
    Dog Soldiers
    Neil Marshall's 2002 debut, a squad of British soldiers under siege by werewolves in the Highlands.
  6. Silver Bullet — ranked #66
    Silver Bullet
    The 1985 Stephen King adaptation in which a boy in a motorized wheelchair hunts a small-town werewolf.
  7. Wolfen — ranked #77
    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 — ranked #88
    The Company of Wolves
    Neil Jordan's 1984 fairy-tale fever dream, a Red Riding Hood retelling written with Angela Carter.
  9. Teen Wolf — ranked #99
    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 — ranked #1010
    Wolf
    Mike Nichols's 1994 corporate thriller starring Jack Nicholson as a publisher whose bite sharpens his instincts.
  11. The Curse of the Werewolf — ranked #1111
    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 — ranked #1212
    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 — ranked #1313
    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 — ranked #1414
    Werewolves Within
    A 2021 whodunit comedy adapted from the video game, with a snowbound town hunting the beast among them.
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Comments

Full moon, silver, a curse passed on by a bite: all of it came from a 1941 screenwriter rather than from folklore, and the field has forty years of it: https://youpick.best/articles/the-wolf-ranked-many-ways

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