Alongside Dracula and Frankenstein, Universal Pictures' The Wolf Man stands as one of the more iconic movie monsters in history. While not the first attempt to bring the transformation of man to wolf to the silver screen, The Wolf Man is the quintessential werewolf film, the basis for werewolf films to follow. Outside of the 1941 classic, however, only a handful of films have managed to helped to cement the werewolf into pop culture. These include John Landis' An American Werewolf in London and Joe Dante's The Howling.
Likewise, most of today's audiences are familiar with the Underworld and Twilight franchises. But underneath the hairy, drama-centered love triangles of the past six years, there are indeed some noteworthy entries in the horror subgenre. Though not all of the films can be classified as fantastic or even well-crafted, the following ten examples should still be considered by anyone suffering from wolf fever
