Movie Pilots Top 5 Werewolf Movies

[Werewolf]

Following on from my previous post someone else on Movie Pilot has done a list of the best werewolf movies, just a top 5 instead. Now i would swap number 3 with number 2 and take out number 4 altogether and replace with Bad Moon. Some good choices here: moviepilot.com/posts/2014/08/13/top-5-werewolf-movies-2189016?lt_source=external,manual#bIWeGy

[someoldguy]

I would throw out # 5. Silver Bullet is not even in my top 20. The other 4 are fine. I won't quibble about order. I agree Bad Moon deserves to be up there someplace high. But I still have a soft spot for the original 1941 'The Wolf Man'.

[Werewolf]

Well The Wolf Man is a classic, almost in a league of its own. I can remember watching it as a little girl and it used to be my favourite werewolf movie until i saw An American Werewolf in London. Transformation scene blew my mind!

[someoldguy]

The AWIL transformation is indeed amazing! You even get to see the hair grow. A very simple if non-obvious trick but still effective even when you know how it works. (I love tricks like that. One favorite is the reaching into the Terminator's head scene in the extended version of T2.)

In the old days werewolf FX were very simple. In The Werewolf of London it is done with camera stops and starts while the actor passes behind some pillars. Each time he re-appears he has more makeup on. In The Wolf Man it is done with successive dissolves, with more makeup each change. Pretty primitive compared with today's stuff but effective if you can get around that.

I saw both of those movies a week apart in 1957 when I was 10. They were part of the Shock Theater program showing the old Universal horror movies that Universal had sold the TV rights for. The only werewolf movie I had seen before that was The Werewolf (1956). Having been brought up on the old pre-censorship EC horror comics I was less than impressed with the science fiction approach.

[Marcus]

A lot of modern films still use some of the old techniques alongside the more digital methods (won't say sophisticated, as the old style physical make up was, as far as I'm concerned, just as sophisticated.

I cannot remember if I first saw wolfman and the other B&W werewolf films on TV as a late at night horror, or on a Sunday morning/afternoon as a family film. I know I have seen them both late at night and during the morning, I just don't remember which came first.

I'd have dropped 5 from that list but kept the rest, maybe a little re-ordered. And, I'd probably add Company of Wolves. Though that may be more to do with wanting a mixed range of werewolf type films in a list.

[someoldguy]

In a top 20 list I did in another thread, Company of Wolves was my # 6. I think I like it so much partly because it IS different. But I did not put it there to have a diverse list but simply because that is how much I like it.