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The original was posted on /r/horror by /u/[deleted] on 2025-06-16 21:08:21+00:00.

Werewolves are awesome. They’re one of our best monsters. But good werewolf movies are hard to come by, and that’s because the vast majority of them are more or less just remakes of The Wolf Man.

Someone gets bitten in the first 15 minutes. The rest of the movie is a slow transformation. You know the basic points. They start acting funny. There are physical changes, maybe they’re more active or hairier or hornier, or they start craving raw meat, or hanging around zoos. Eventually they figure out that they’re a werewolf. They’re in denial at first but finally they have to face facts. They try to find a cure, it doesn’t work, then they die at the end. There’s a big full-moon-induced transformation scene in there somewhere where they turn into… well, not a wolf, exactly, but something vaguely canine.

It’s all just The Wolf Man over and over and over again.

I’m looking for werewolf movies that break that mold. Ideally, I’d like to see a movie that draws from actual medieval werewolf trials and folklore (like where the werewolf is a sorcerer who does it on purpose, the moon and silver aren’t involved, etc), but I’ll take anything that breaks that basic Wolf Man formula.