Any good or good enough werewolf films?
Ones I've seen
American werewolf in London
American werewolf in Paris
The Wolf Man
The Wolfman
Late phases
Ginger Snaps 1,2,3
The curse of the werewolf
The Howling
Werewolf: the beast among us
Van Helsing
There may be more but I can't think of them!
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Ah that's one I forgot, I have indeed seen that one. It's a very good movie and I don't know if I'm brave enough to watch it again, I live in a very similar location!
Thanks MJF😊
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Not quite but it is a cottage in the countryside! I grew up on a farm and our dog used to howl during the full moon and let me tell you that WAS terrifying! Funnily enough we never took an axe to him over it.
He actually did bite someone once, it was one of my cousins and my mum had told him several times "don't torment the dog" he didn't listen and ended up with a chomped hand. Not badly but it taught him not to torment the dog!
Thanks for the gorilla movie suggestion but you know werewolves I can believe in but weregorillas? Come on😂
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No not the Netherlands, that's Stratego! I'm in the British Isles.
Lon Chaney Jr, bless him I loved him in the original Wolf Man. He played the part with great pathos. I'm going to have to look your gorilla film up now!
Just watched the trailer. Raymond Burr, I've never seen him in anything but Ironside or Perry Mason. My husband is very interested in watching this, right up his street!
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083629/?ref_=tt_rec_tti
This? I haven't seen it thanks.
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Available on Netflix, even better.
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shareThe Company of Wolves is the best werewolf movie ever made, Dazed, and I am a connoisseur of werewolf movies. I find American Werewolf to be beneath contempt. It’s a werewolf movie made for people who don’t like werewolf movies. You don’t cast an actor who is a pussy as a werewolf, and you don’t strew jokes through the narrative.
You might also look at Van Helsing, the Underworld series, and the Showtime three-season complete series, Penny Dreadful. None of these is only about lycanthropes, but the wolves are prominently featured in them. If you want to dig further into manbeast lore, read Montague Summers’ scholarly text, The Werewolf.
Ah, I have to disagree about AWIL R_Kane, it's a favourite of mine. It is of course meant to have elements of humour but it does have moments of genuine horror. After the original attack when the wolf is killed and the kid lying beside him turns and sees a human is terrifying.
But to each his own.
Yes I've seen The Company of Wolves, don't remember a lot about it.
I'm a fan of Van Helsing and Underworld and you and I have spoken before about our enjoyment of Penny Dreadful! It's the best thing I've watched in recent years, except that the final few episodes were rushed.
Thank you for your response. Always nice to talk with you.
Dazed, have you seen the Collectors Edition of Ginger Snaps? It’s basically a director’s cut. First, the bad news: The film was shot in a 4:3 aspect ratio, which is how the first release was transferred to DVD. The Collectors Edition was blown up to a 16:9 aspect ratio, to fit the format of a wide-screen video display, so some information is lost at the edges of the image. The really GOOD news is that it contains new footage that tells us how the sisters were raised and why they have become what they are, and I find it very plausible, which is why I find it so chilling.
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It’s as much a real werewolf movie as Teen Wolf was—the movie, not the TV series. And the notion of Jenny Agutter wanting to sleep with David Naughton makes me laugh so hard that I snort. By all means, enjoy it. I know that it is popular. I also don’t care. Werewolf movies have balls.
shareI liked the one with Nicholson - Wolf (1994)
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBwwLfog4Yo
Another one you might want to view, Dazed: Blood and Chocolate. There was also a Canadian TV lycanthrope series that’s available on Netflix: Bitten. It’s about a lycanthrope pack that had the first woman werewolf in ‘wolf history as a member. I found things to enjoy about it, despite the shaky premise. Blood and Chocolate, all entries in the Ginger and Howling series had female ‘wolves. You might enjoy Red Riding Hood. It has a good cast (Amanda Seyfried, Gary Oldman, Julie Christie [who will be gorgeous even after she dies!]), and good art design and cinematography.
shareHere are several that I don't think have been mentioned yet:
- "Never Cry Werewolf" (2008), which takes the plot of "Fright Night" and applies it to a werewolf and is pretty much on par.
- "Big Bad Wolf" (2006)
- "Wolfen" (1981), which isn't really a werewolf flick, but there are "super wolves."
- "Howling V: The Rebirth" (1989), which is a whodunit werewolf flick in a castle in Europe (better than the similar "The Beast Must Die").
- "Howling VI: The Freaks" (1991), which involves a freakshow traveling circus.
- "Dire Wolf" aka "DinoWolf" (2009), which is actually pretty entertaining for TV-budget fare.
Also try "The Craving" (2008), which is very well done as far as micro-budget flicks go; although the monster isn't a werewolf, it's similar.
I forgot to thank you for your post Wuchak.
I must confess that I haven't seen any of the other Howling films, I may give them a go.
I watched Wolfen and then read the book a few years ago and it's a nice little film. Very different and I always enjoy Tom Noonan.
Thanks for taking the time to reply and for your suggestions.
My pleasure, Dazed.
"Howling V: The Rebirth" and "Howling VI: The Freaks" are the best of the Howling sequels, so if you don't like them you probably won't like the others. They're all self-contained so it's not necessary to view them in any order, although there are sometimes references to earlier films in the non-series.
If you like those two, try "Howling IV: The Original Nightmare" (1988) which is basically a redo of the first film and more closely follows the book. It takes place in SoCal, but was shot in South Africa, which makes it different. Unfortunately, it didn't have the budget of the first film and so it has a low-budget vibe and the ending fizzles out.
"Howling II: Your Sister is a Werewolf" (1985) is bad, but amusing in some ways, sorta a golden turkey. "Howling III: The Marsupials" (1987) is very offbeat and takes place in Australia. "Howling VII: New Moon Rising" (1995) takes place in a small down in the SoCal desert; most people cite it as the worst of the series by far.
"The Howling Reborn" (2011) borrows from the "Twilight" series for a decent entry, which is at least different from the previous seven flicks.
I’ve seen all but the two Full Moon versions of Twilight The Movie, because I like myself, but there’s no relationship between Twilight and The Howling.
The Howling II: Your Sister Is A Werewolf, following immediately after the murder of Karen White at the hands of a devoted colleague to spare her the damnation of having to live on a werewolf, features Christopher Lee and Sybil Danning. Lee is second only to Vincent Price as a mainstay in Gothic cinema; and Sybil Danning as Strega, the Queen Bitch Wolf, well . . . you know . . . tits. Great fun. Plus a wonderful Punk themesong!
I was only talking about "The Howling Reborn," which is "Howling VIII" and came out 16 years after the previous film in the non-series. It throws in elements of "Twilight" was all I was saying.
Yeah, "Howling II" is so eccentric and amusing it's almost good, even though it's actually pretty bad and nothing the viewer can take serious.
I watched the trailer for VI and am very tempted, nearly watched it last night but had a last minute urge to watch Jaws!
I'm happy to hear that it's a stand alone story, I can take a certain amount of "bad" by the way, sometimes the bad makes it extra good!
I'll get back to you if I watch it later.
Project metalbeast is another lesser known one i just remembered.Haven't seen it in over a decade but i remember thinking it was pretty good for a direct to video movie.
Also my favorite tv series based on werewolves was the short lived 1987 tv show Werewolf starring Lance Legault and Chuck Connors.If your a werewolf genre fan and haven't seen it i highly recommend it.Connors tearing his face off and transforming into the werewolf creeped me out as a kid.
Barf-fest. The military make an indestructible werewolf. It breaks free in a sealed underground facility, and they have to figure out how to kill it. Project:Metalbeast (the actual title) is a travesty among werewolf movies. The metal monster could have been anything, vampire, Frankenstein’s monster, Adolph Hitler. Not a recommendation I’d endorse for my friend, Dazed.
The Fox Werewolf series, on the other hand, is more than a okay.
You may be right.like i said it's been over a decade.But i do recall thinking it was fairly decent for a b horror movie.Although you also said An American werewolf in London ,Considered a classic and one of my favorites, was a bad movie.And you recommended Bitten which i thought was just terrible.
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