Why don’t werewolf movies get made anymore?

Dog Soldiers (2002), in every way superior to the movie that’s the object of this section of the site.

Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed (2004)

I enjoyed Red Ridinghood (2011), but it’s not for everyone

I enjoyed Johnny Depp’s performance as The Wolf in Into
The Woods (2014)

Benicio Del Toro as The Wolfman (2010)

Perhaps because American Werewolf in Paris totally killed off the franchise and the concept, it was so GODDAMN BLOODY FUCKING AWFUL!

Because vampires supplanted them for a while, then zombies were the big thing. Evil superheroes seems to be replacing zombies now (Brightburn, The Boys, etc.)

My guess is that there isn't the same interest in werewolves as there is in other mythological creatures like vampires and zombies. I haven't checked but perhaps this is backed up by the commercial success of those films. I also think some creatures just capture the imagination of people more than others. Ghosts, vampires, and zombies have more appeal for different reasons. Many people believe in ghosts and the idea of there being a spirit world and this makes it popular. Zombies are often closely associated with the apocalypse, as they have the whole biting and infecting thing going on, and that increases the interest in it and even heightens the realism for some people. Vampires are steeped in folklore and similarly have the biting/infecting trope. Werewolves just maybe don't have as much to go on to generate the interest with the masses, and as such they are sidelined next to the others.

I guess vampires are just more popular

I’ve asked myself the same question.

For werewolf fans who don’t mind reading I would THOROUGHLY RECOMMEND the novel The Last Werewolf by Glen Duncan. It’s one of my favourite books, so beautifully written and thrilling from first page to last.

A film version was apparently in development years ago with Ridley Scott attached but nothing seemed to come of it. Such a shame because it would make a fantastic film and would be just the story to lift the werewolf movie genre from its reputation as the poor cousin of the vampire movie.

Duncan also wrote two sequels which are also good, but the first book is a true work of art. I really can’t recommend it highly enough.

One problem is that there is no true classic of the werewolf literature to fall back on... somewhat like the mummy. Most of what we think of as tropes of the werewolf and mummy genres are almost exclusively the inventions of Hollywood. With Dracula and Frankenstein you've got the bona fide classics of literature that give them a somewhat higher status and lore to fall back on. The zombie film got an even later start (1968), with no real literary classic as ur-text either, but it seems to have fared better - perhaps because the zombie is seen as a statement of consumerism, or perhaps because zombies need not have supernatural causes. There were a few zombie films in the 1940s, and a Hammer studios one in the mid-60s, but they never quite caught on the way some of the other monsters did... until George R. Romero.

Their novelty has worn off.