The Ranking
Werewolf movies
WE USED TO RANK WEREWOLF MOVIES. WE’RE ALRIGHT NOWWWWWW...
RUSSELL MOORCROFT
Chris: So, werewolf movies then.
Becky: I’ve watched nothing else for a week, and have had the most fun.
Mike: I think they’re at their most interesting as metaphors. There are so many that explore coming of age and puberty and bodily changes, and then ones like Late Phases, where it’s the other end of life and your faculties are going.
Chris: It’s a genre you can trace back to an origin movie, 1935’s Werewolf Of London. A-woooooooo.
Mike: I loved this. Such a charming, fun film. It’s lovely and short as well. And it’s really interesting what they do with the mythology.
Jamie: Being a Universal movie, it looks great. I don’t think it’s anywhere near the class of Frankenstein or The Invisible Man or Bride Of Frankenstein, but it’s a really fun movie. And it introduced the idea of the tormented hero turning into a werewolf, and moonlight, and the bipedal werewolf.
Chris: But does it deserve to be mentioned in the same breath as The Wolf Man, which came six years later?
Becky: I think The Wolf Man is a better picture, yeah. I know that a lot of people don’t love Lon Chaney Jr.