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Our top 13 favorite
werewolf films to watch.
Cursed
Packed with intense thrills, Wes Craven's "Cursed" brings
you the terror of werewolves as never before! Ellie and her brother Jimmy
find themselves caught up in an unimaginable horror! A
werewolf loose in Los Angeles changes the lives of three
young adults who, after being mauled by the beast, learn
that the only way to break the curse put upon them is to
kill the one who started it all! 2005
The Howling
Severely traumatized by a near-fatal encounter with a serial
killer, TV newscaster Karen White takes time off at a
secluded retreat called the Colony. But when, after nights
of being tormented by bestial, bloodcurdling cries, Karen
ventures into the woods seeking answers, she makes a
terrifying discovery. Now she must fight not only for her
life but for her soul! 1981
Silver Bullet
Adapted from Stephen King's short story Silver Bullet tells
the tale of a 13 year-old boy and his sister hunting down a
mysterious, gruesome killer, who only strikes during a full
moon. 1985
Red Riding
Hood
In a medieval village a beautiful young girl falls for an
orphaned woodcutter, much to her family's displeasure. When
her sister is killed by the werewolf that prowls the dark
forest surrounding their village, the people call on a famed
werewolf hunter to help them kill the wolf. As the death
toll rises with each moon, the girl begins to suspect that
the werewolf could be someone she loves. Panic grips the
town as she discovers that she has a unique connection to
the beast--one that inexorably draws them together, making
her both suspect...and bait. 2011
An American
Werewolf in London
Two American students on a European vacation wander into a
creepy local pub in Northern England and are quickly thrown
out. Stranded and alone in the dark countryside, the pair
get lost in their search for warm lodging. Little do they
know that they are about to be changed forever by an ancient
terror as they walk along the moors on a moonlit night. Only
one of the students survives a deadly attack by a
supernatural beast--at least he thinks he survived, until
the next full moon rolls around.
An American
Werewolf in Paris
Ahh, the City of Lights, full of marvels to tempt three
boorish American backpackers: the Champs-Elysees, the Left
Bank, the racist gangs of disaffected young right-wing
lycanthropes. After rescuing a desperate woman from a swan
dive off the Eiffel tower, a collegian discovers her scary,
hairy secret--too late.
The Company
of Wolves
Is a psychologically themed retelling of Little Red Riding
Hood from a Freudian and slightly feminist angle. Grandma,
who tells her granddaughter strange stories of handsome yet
heavily eyebrowed strange men, spouses who disappear during
the full moon, and storks and eggs.
Ginger Snaps
Brigitte and Ginger are unusual sisters. For a school
project they take pictures of each other in various suicide
poses that look frighteningly realistic. No other students
will talk to them. Ginger is almost sixteen, Brigitte a year
younger, but they are in the same classes, and neither of
them has gotten her period yet. They do virtually everything
together--in fact, their motto is "Together Forever"--until
one night Ginger gets attacked by the Beast of Bailey Downs,
which previously had been killing and eviscerating dogs. And
Ginger then begins to change... 2005
Ginger Snaps
II - Unleased
While attempting to learn more about her dead sister's
lycanthropy by mixing her own blood with the affected blood
of her sibling, goth-styled teenager Brigitte becomes
affected by the werewolf curse herself. As the "disease"
begins to take over her body, she requires increasingly
stronger dosages of wolfsbane to combat it. But after a
run-in with another wolf-creature, her beaten body is
found---and taken to a drug rehab clinic. Unfortunately for
the doctors and patients there, she has no access to her
wolfsbane. 2001
Ginger Snaps
Back: The Beginning
The Fitzgerald sisters are back in the third installment of
the wonderfully horrific werewolf series, and this
time they've travelled back in time, manifest in one of
their previous incarnations. Orphans traveling across the
Canadian wilderness by horseback during the 19th Century,
the girls encounter a crumbling Indian campsite where the
one remaining inhabitant issues a strange prophetic warning,
the first of many mysterious encounters to come. When the
sisters take refuge at a trading fort populated only by men,
they soon learn of the monstrous beasts in the outlying land
that menace the men both physically and mentally, as many
seem to be moving towards madness and all seem to have
something to hide. When Ginger is bitten by a little boy and
starts slowly changing, the sisters realize they must work
to solve the prophecy before its too late.
Blood &
Chocolate
A good-looking pack of werewolves that has ruled Bucharest
for 5,000 years becomes threatened when one among them
begins to question the traditions they have adhered to over
the centuries. Vivian is a teenage werewolf whose destiny
has been tied to her pack since she was orphaned at a young
age. The pack's menacing leader, Gabriel, has designs on
Vivian, and hopes to make her his next wife, while the rest
of Vivian's "family" keeps a close watch on her every move.
This makes things difficult when Vivian, against her better
judgment, begins a tentative relationship with Aiden, a
graphic artist who has come to the city to study the
mythical loup-garou for his next book. 2007
Dog Soldiers
Something evil lurks in the wilds of Scotland, and this
unfortunate troop of soldiers are about to stumble upon it.
A routine exercise takes an unexpected turn when the troop
discovers a ravaged bunch of dead soldiers out in the woods.
With dusk quickly turning to night, and an ominous full-moon
lighting up the sky, the soldiers decide to hide-out in an
abandoned farmhouse. With their supplies and morale both in
short supply, the soldiers become trapped in the farmhouse
by a pack of hungry werewolves who seem hellbent on enjoying
the soldiers for dinner. Can anything stop them?
The
Wolfman
Benicio Del Toro's vision of the 1941 classic movie of a man
cursed with the sign of the wolf. Special effects by Rick
Baker. 2010
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