The 4 Best Werewolf Movies of All Time

 

Just because Hollywood has moved on to zombies is no reason for the rest of us to completely forget about the moonshiners -- and I don't mean bootleggers. I'm talking about the freaks who come out at night and usually only during a full moon. There is no question that there are lots of terrible werewolf movies out there. But here are the good ones.......

4. Rise of the Lycans

Rise of the Lycans depicts an ancient time during which vampires enslaved werewolves. However, nosferatu princess Sonja falls in love with werewolf revolutionary Lucian. And the fallout from this forbidden interracial relationship leads to a violent slave uprising.  

3. Underworld

Underworld reveals that, unbeknownst to humanity, a cold war has been raging between werewolves and vampires for centuries. The enmity stems from the fact that vampire society used to enslave werewolves and has never treated them as equals.

A little-known fact of the Underworld series is that it was conceived by Kevin Grevioux -- the enormous African-American lycan (werewolf), Raze, featured in this first piece of the franchise. It makes perfect sense, given that the Howard University-grad founded two comic book companies and majored in genetic engineering.

Tensions between vampires and werewolves would later be seen in both True Blood and the Twilight movies but it was depicted first -- and better -- in Underworld.

2. The New Mutants

In the most underrated X-film and the closest that the X-verse has ever come to horror, The New Mutants features a group of five young people undergoing testing and receiving inpatient treatment for their respective genetic mutations at an otherwise empty medical institution overseen by Dr. Cecilia Reyes. All of the patients are attempting to gain some measure of control over the unnatural abilities that have manifested as they've grown older. One of them, Rahne Sinclair, has discovered, to her dismay, that she possesses the ability to transform into a wolf.

1. Underworld: Evolution

Not only does Underworld: Evolution feature the dopest werewolf to grace a movie screen, it also provides us with an origin for the species itself. It's explained that long ago a man, Alexander Corvinus, who happened to be born immortal, conceived twin sons. Eventually, those sons, Marcus and William, were bitten by a bat and wolf, respectively. While Markus transformed into the original vampire, William's genetic response to the bite metamorphosed him into the world's very first werewolf. Unlike his descendants, William lacks the ability to shape-shift; he's stuck in his white-furred-giant-wolf-on-hind-legs form permanently. Another side effect of his lycanthropic transformation is that it rendered him little more than a hyper-aggressive but mindless beast. Immortal, like his father and brother, William has spent centuries in this state. His aggression caused him to rampage across the countryside, passing his curse (except for the mindlessness and inability to transform) along to unsuspecting victims, leading to the creation of an entire race of wolfmen. 

So there you have it. The best movies about werewolves happen to comprise what used to be a trilogy (two more films in the franchise have since been released -- and, interestingly, not the Howling series.