10 Best Werewolf Movies To Watch Right Now

In his directorial debut, British horror director Neil Marshall unleashed one of the scariest werewolf creature designs that has ever hit the big screen in 2002's Dog Soldiers. Starring Sean Pertwee, Kevin McKidd, Emma Cleasby, and Liam Cunningham, the film begins with a squad of six British soldiers in the Scottish Highlands taking part in a training exercise against a Special Forces unit.

The following morning, they find the savaged remains of a SAS unit and quickly come under attack by the culprits – a pack of werewolves. They're forced to take refuge in an abandoned home deep in the highlands as the towering creatures huff, puff, and attempt to blow their way into the property.

Would you be able to work out whether or not your friend was a werewolf? That's a conundrum Josh Ruben's 2021 horror comedy Werewolves Within puts to the audience. The film focuses on a group of residents from the small town of Beaverfield – forest ranger Finn Wheeler (Sam Richardson), mail carrier Cecily Moore (Milana Vayntrub), local couple Trisha (Michaela Watkins) and Pete Anderton (Michael Chernus), wealthy couple Joaquim (Harvey Guillén) and Devon Wilson (Cheyenne Jackson), blue-collar workers Gwen (Sarah Burns) and Marcus (George Basil), and the reclusive Emerson Flint (Glenn Fleshler).

When a blizzard knocks out power in the town, the residents are forced to take refuge in a lodge owned by Jeanine Sherman (Catherine Curtin). When they discover the body of Jeannie's missing husband Dave, they begin to realize the blackout may not have been accidental and something sinister is preying on the town.

Celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, John Fawcett's iconic Ginger Snaps is a coming-of-age tale with a hairy twist. It tells the story of teenage sisters Brigitte (Emily Perkins) and Ginger Fitzgerald (Katharine Isabelle), who harbor a morbid fascination with death and the macabre.

One night, Ginger is attacked by a mysterious animal on the same day. Ginger undergoes a series of changes that culminate in her becoming a werewolf, testing her relationship with Brigitte in the process as she works on a cure with her friend Sam (Kris Lemche).

It's no secret that being a journalist can be a dangerous job – but this is one assignment no news anchor is likely to face. The Howling, released in 1981 by Joe Dante, sees TV news anchor Karen White (Dee Wallace) work with the police to capture her stalker and renowned serial killer Eddie Quist (Robert Picardo).

She is traumatized by the deadly events that lead to his capture and death, suffering from amnesia. She is advised by her therapist George Waggner (Patrick Macnee) to attend his secluded countryside resort for treatment, a trip that proves to be far from healing as she discovers it is inhabited by a secret colony of werewolves.

Hammer Horror icon Oliver Reed received his first starring role in 1961's The Curse Of The Werewolf. He appears as Leon Corledo, a troubled man who was raised by his kind adoptive father, Don Alfredo Corledo (Clifford Evans). Leon begins to have increasingly violent urges, and though his love for the beautiful Christina (Catherine Feller) helps soothe him, his natural tendencies get the best of him and he transforms into a horrifying werewolf to terrorize the Spanish countryside.

The tale of Little Red Riding Hood gets a bloody revamp in Neil Jordan's weird and wonderful The Company Of Wolves, based on a short story by Angela Carter. It tells the story of Rosaleen (Sarah Patterson) and her family, including her sister Alice (Georgia Slow), who is devastatingly chased down and killed by wolves.

While her parents mourn, Rosaleen goes to live with her grandmother (Angela Lansbury) who gives her an ominous warning. When she returns to her village, the residents hunt down the wolf, which has gone on to kill their cattle, but when they inspect the corpse, it turns into a human, revealing there are werewolves within their midst.

Not to be confused with another legendary film title (that may or may not feature on this list), Werewolf Of London was released in 1935 and directed by Stuart Walker with makeup by Jack Pierce, the creative behind the iconic Frankenstein makeup worn by Boris Karloff. The film follows renowned botanist Wilfred Glendon (Henry Hull) who is attacked by a strange creature when embarking on an expedition to Tibet to study the rare Mariphasa lumina lupina plant.

After his attack, Glendon meets Dr. Yogami (Warner Oland), who reveals the rare plant he was searching for holds a temporary antidote to “werewolfery” – a piece of information that will prove useful to Glendon as he experiences unusual symptoms following his attack.

Vampires are often seen to be the creatures of seduction in the horror genre, but 1994's Wolf welcomed the ferocious beasts into the ring. When New York publishing house editor Will Randall (Jack Nicholson) runs over a large wolf, he is bitten when attempting to help it. He soon discovers his senses have sharpened, and his behavior takes an aggressive turn when he bites his former employee and new boss, Stewart Swinton (James Spader), when it is announced the publishing house has been taken over.

He begins a relationship with Laura (Michelle Pfeiffer), the daughter of tycoon Raymond Alden (Christopher Plummer) who took over the business, but Will soon begins to fear he is a danger to those around him when he awakens in strange surroundings with his memories of the previous hours blacked out.

As bodies begin to pile up in a small Utah town, the police force of Snow Hollow is forced to face the possibility that their murderer may be of the supernatural variety. Released in 2020, The Wolf of Snow Hollow begins with a woman being mutilated while holidaying in Snow Hollow. Deputy Sheriff John Marshall (Jim Cummings) is called to the scene, as well as that of the next victim – snowboarding instructor Hannah Marten.

He notices that limbs are missing from both bodies and finds wolf fur on Hannah's corpse. As residents of the town continue to turn up dead in the most horrific of circumstances, John begins to suspect a werewolf may be behind the slayings.

Of course, what werewolf film list would be complete without the 1981 classic horror comedy An American Werewolf In London? Directed by John Landis, the landmark genre film saw makeup artist Rick Baker for the inaugural Academy Award for Best Makeup, as well as the Saturn Award for Best Horror Film.

It stars David Naughton and Griffin Dunne as American students David Kessler and Jack Goodman, who are vacationing in the UK. While trekking across the Yorkshire moors, Jack is mauled to death by a huge creature that seriously injures David. The beast is killed by the locals, but the damage is already done as David is forced to both mourn the loss of his friend and adapt to his new life as a werewolf when he returns to New York City.