Scary Werewolf Movies?

[Marcus]

Ahh, well The Movie, was a girl who desperately hated where she was dreaming about being a girl living in a forest (triggered by the view from her window and the red riding hood story) who had a grandmother that told her fairtales. The ending of which has the "wish" the sleeping girl has manifesting out of the dream and into reality.

Don't know what's confusing about that

[dedwyre]

So she wished for wolves to come and eat her?

[Marcus]

No, she wanted to run with the wolves in the forests, free, wild, and fey.

Just her wish wasn't quiet what she expected. Remember "Be careful what you wish for, you may get it!"

[dedwyre]

SO why was the girl afraid of the guy, but when he turned into a wolf, she went over and pet him, and he didn't try to bite her?

[Werewolf]

Perhaps that part is something to do with molestation? As a strange man he was more of a threat sexually than he was as a wolf??? I could of course be wrong but i do work with victims of abuse so sometimes you just read things into things!

[miar87]

werewolves movies don't scare me however, whenever i watch one and it's a full moon and i've got to walk home from my friend's place or the cinema...i'm scared!

[Marcus]

miar87, Next time carry a frisbee (sp) that way if a werewolf attacks, just throw it and shout fetch. It'll not be able to resist

[miar87]

twilight scares me...the future of mankind great

[Marcus]

Nov 17, 2008 13:31:51 GMT -5 dedwyre said:

SO why was the girl afraid of the guy, but when he turned into a wolf, she went over and pet him, and he didn't try to bite her?

I'd say, because when he was a man, he was a threat to her, an unknown danger that she didn't know what he would do. But, when he became a wolf, than he was offering her something she wanted, a way out of her life to one that's free and unrestrained.

[slaughteredlamb]

There are scenes in An American Werewolf in London which will never be topped in my opinion. The pub scene isnt scary but after they leave the slaughtered Lamb & you hear the wolf howling its certainly "interesting" & then the scenes on the moors where what starts as a joke quickly becoming a reality for the characters.......Its not frightening as such just disturbing. I also found the part where Dr Hirsch goes back to the village & is talking to the guy in the rain outside of the slaughtered lamb quite eerie to be honest.........I have always wished that he would have finished telling the Doc the whole story before Brian Glover interupts him !!!!

[miar87]

lol marcus

slaughteredlamb: word!

[silverbullet63]

Dog Soldiers: Equal parts NOTLD/Assault on Precinct 13

Humans trapped and under siege in a Farmhouse by a pack of Werewolves.

Very creepy atmosphere, had me on edge the first viewing.


Silver Bullet: Coming of Age story, Silblings bonding while trying stop a Werewolf.
Terrorizing their town, with the help of their Uncle.

The Bridge scene with Marty injuring then escaping.
The final confrontation on Halloween, between them and the Werewolf.

YIKES!!!


The Howling: This film is like a Nightmare from Karen's POV.
Pino Donnagio's score fits perfectly.

Honorable Mention...

Bad Moon

Howl

Both of these finish strong, with solid chase/final confrontation scenes.

[someoldguy]

While I gleefully embrace the shocks, thrills etc. of more modern films, the only werewolf movie that I can honestly say scared me was The Wolf Man 1941 when I first saw it some sixty years ago.

Universal had just released the Shock! Package of their old horror movies. WABC-TV had started showing them late nights in early October 1957. My ten-year old self always managed to find a way to stay up and watch them at 11:15 PM on Friday nights. And what a starting line-up! Dracula, Frankenstein, The Mummy! Then came my first ever werewolf movie - Werewolf of London. I was already acquainted with werewolves from those good old EC horror comics that I was not supposed to have, and Werewolf of London really fired my imagination. But it was more awe-inspiring and WOW! evoking than actually frightening.

The following week was The Wolf Man, appropriately enough on Halloween night so my ten-year old mind was already filled with spooky thoughts. This one hit me harder than WoL had and in a more vulnerable place in my mind. Not only a much scarier werewolf – the one in WoL had to be recognizable as a certain person, this one needed to be unrecognizable - but all the characters came across as more real. And that made the story more real to me. It was IMO a better story with a supernatural curse nullifying scientific realism, while WoL was almost a science fiction story. (Science fiction movies at the theater had been my main form of escapism before this.) The Wolf Man was the polar opposite, far closer to Tales from the Crypt and the like.

In short, The Wolf Man was really and truly scary to my young self. A genuinely fear inspiring monster metaphorically clawing its way out of a crack that unexpectedly had appeared in everyday reality, giving a shudder inducing glimpse of things beyond that should not be. I actually had nightmares about this and even felt compelled for quite some time to peer into dark places at night before passing them by, lest I be caught from behind by who knows what.

[silverbullet63]

I plan to revisit The Wolf Man (1941) this month.

It's been a long time, since I've watched it.

[someoldguy]

Sept 30, 2019 13:14:16 GMT -5 silverbullet63 said:

I plan to revisit The Wolf Man (1941) this month.

It's been a long time, since I've watched it.

I cannot guarantee you will have an experience like that ten-year old did in the long ago. But IMO this is one of the best and worth re-watching from time to time.