Horror streaming service Shudder is on a werewolf kick this month, flooding the platform with lycanthropic treats. Werewolves don’t get the same love as vampires, but they’re an interesting creature. Watching various werewolf flicks over the past week or so has demonstrated that the “rules” governing them are as versatile as those that govern the bloodsuckers.
Perhaps the best modern werewolf film is 1981’s An American Werewolf in London. The brainchild of writer and director John Landis—the man behind the “Thriller” music video—it takes the established mythology of the werewolf and expands upon it. The film even references the classic Universal Studios film The Wolf Man (1941), drawing upon that film’s contribution to the modern werewolf mythology (it doubtlessly helped that An American Werewolf in London was also a Universal Studios production, giving Landis full access to earlier Universal properties).
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