What is yer Top Ten Worst Werewolf Movies..you have seen??

[Rich]

People praise it as being a classic, but I think The Howling is bad. I tried to watch it so many times, and it is just a dull and not very good film. I like The Howling 2 better, because Christopher Lee really does a great job in it.

[long live kong]

I was never keen on The Howling either, or Dog Soldiers for that matter. An American Werewolf In London is my personal favourite, I used to watch it over and over again when I was a kid.

[Crazy1van]

Howling II is hilarious to me, great campy fun I will never shy away from.  But it IS a bad movie.  Just not the worst of course.

[Wolf Man]

Let me comment first on the Howling.  Whenever you grade or critique a film it is often a good idea to consider it in context to when it was released and the films that came before it.  When the Howling was released I saw it in the theater and it was a great film since we had not had a really good scary werewolf film of any substance up until then.  That is not counting the Universal Classics and the 1956 The Werewolf.  Werewolf films had a tendancy to be cheap horror fodder, low B grade garbage.  Viewed today by someone who had not grown up on many of the films that came before it The Howling might seem to be a "not very well made film".  The Howling's transformation sequence is still today to be considered one of the best ever ranking up there with American Werewolf in London.  So keep that in mind when viewing it.  Consider its place when it was new. 

I have seen Werewolf of Woodstock and yes, it was a made for TV campy werewolf film.  See above.  It is like trying to watch Werewolf of Washington now.  Almost impossible to sit through it.  But......back when they first came out we did not have very many quality werewolf films to view.  Also, when those were aired we only got to see them once.  In today's world of DVD, multiple viewings, the pause button and of course the "stop" button when the film is a real stinker films seem much worse than when they were viewed on TV in one shot plus commercials.  Werewolf of Washington, The Boy Who Cried Werewolf, Death Moon, Werewolf of Woodstock, 1979 Wolfman, Moon of the Wolf and a host of others all came before The Howling and tend to make the Howling look like oscar material by comparison. 

I remember thinking how "Scary" The Boy Who Cried Werewolf was when I first saw it in a theater.  I have grown up a lot since then and when I recently got the DVD I laughed out loud at how cheesy the film was. 

The Howling though is on my watch list each year for Halloween.  It is not nearly as bad as some others. 

Bad Moon is a guilty pleasure.  Sure, not a great Werewolf film but who doesn't squeal with delight when the slimy salesman con artist comes back to kill the dog.  The shadow that rises behind him of who he runs into is a predictable but awesome thrill.

Dog Soldiers considered one of the best by Werewolf fans.  Silver Bullet also quite good.   

[BaronLatos35]

Dog Soldiers was one of the most original werewolf movies in awhile. It had great tension from the opening zipper scene to Spoon's brawl. It is now one of my favorites.

The Howling scared me as a kid. Eddie was a thing of nightmares. I still enjoy watching it today, although I do find myself selecting AWiL more often as an adult.

[long live kong]

I think the reason I was disappointed with Dog Soldiers was because it had been hyped up so much, I did enjoy the film and as a directorial debut it was fantastic I just wasn't blown away by it like so many of my friends seemed to be. I know I'm in the minority here but I haven't been overly impressed by any of Neil Marshall's films so far. IMO 'The Descent' is overrated and I thought 'Doomsday' was pretty dire.
Empire magazine gave 'The Descent' 5 stars but although it was an okay movie I wouldn't call it a classic. I think Empire being a British magazine was a little generous in their review. Don't get me wrong I'm not anti-Neil Marshall, he is clearly a talented director and is great for the genre I just feel we haven't nearly seen the best of him yet.

[Wolf Man]

That is interesting that you would call Dog Soldiers "hyped up".  No one in the US had heard about it and it did not get a US theater release.  Most of us found out about it either by word of mouth or by reading about it somewhere.  There is an interesting commentary on the DVD about what happened to "not" get a US release.  I think this film would have done well in US theaters for sure.  As a werewolf fan I would call it a great "werewolf" film but I would not necessarily call it a great or perfect overall movie.  It had everything I want to see in a werewolf film, action and suspense with some twists and some great characters.  Spoon steals the film and has one of the greatest fight scenes in films in my opinion.  "balls of British steel" 

Fun movie.  I watch it at least once a year if not more often. 

[Scatter]

Let me comment first on the Howling.  Whenever you grade or critique a film it is often a good idea to consider it in context to when it was released and the films that came before it.  When the Howling was released I saw it in the theater and it was a great film since we had not had a really good scary werewolf film of any substance up until then.  That is not counting the Universal Classics and the 1956 The Werewolf.  Werewolf films had a tendancy to be cheap horror fodder, low B grade garbage.  Viewed today by someone who had not grown up on many of the films that came before it The Howling might seem to be a "not very well made film".  The Howling's transformation sequence is still today to be considered one of the best ever ranking up there with American Werewolf in London.  So keep that in mind when viewing it.  Consider its place when it was new. 

I have seen Werewolf of Woodstock and yes, it was a made for TV campy werewolf film.  See above.  It is like trying to watch Werewolf of Washington now.  Almost impossible to sit through it.  But......back when they first came out we did not have very many quality werewolf films to view.  Also, when those were aired we only got to see them once.  In today's world of DVD, multiple viewings, the pause button and of course the "stop" button when the film is a real stinker films seem much worse than when they were viewed on TV in one shot plus commercials.  Werewolf of Washington, The Boy Who Cried Werewolf, Death Moon, Werewolf of Woodstock, 1979 Wolfman, Moon of the Wolf and a host of others all came before The Howling and tend to make the Howling look like oscar material by comparison. 

I remember thinking how "Scary" The Boy Who Cried Werewolf was when I first saw it in a theater.  I have grown up a lot since then and when I recently got the DVD I laughed out loud at how cheesy the film was. 

The Howling though is on my watch list each year for Halloween.  It is not nearly as bad as some others. 

Bad Moon is a guilty pleasure.  Sure, not a great Werewolf film but who doesn't squeal with delight when the slimy salesman con artist comes back to kill the dog.  The shadow that rises behind him of who he runs into is a predictable but awesome thrill.

Dog Soldiers considered one of the best by Werewolf fans.  Silver Bullet also quite good.   

Well said, and something I always preach myself to Nancy, who is extremely hard on some films. You have to take them in their context and find the elements that make it memorable, and enjoy that (even if only for comedy/camp value).

[long live kong]

That is interesting that you would call Dog Soldiers "hyped up".   

I suppose 'hype' was the wrong word, here in the UK I was one of the last to see it amongst my circle of friends who were all raving about it, so for me personally it had been built up too much. If I had caught it one night on TV and had never heard of it I probably would of been one of the ones raving about it. A similar thing happened when I saw Zombie Land, and it's famous 'cameo'. I had heard so many reviews about said cameo that when it came I was expecting something spectacularly funny (although it was a great cameo!) The same thing happened the other night when I watched Tropic Thunder with Tom Cruises character, I watched it with two friends who kept saying "wait till you see Tom Cruise he's hilarious!" and then I found myself trying to find him funny when he appeared.

[Scatter]

I suppose 'hype' was the wrong word, here in the UK I was one of the last to see it amongst my circle of friends who were all raving about it, so for me personally it had been built up too much. If I had caught it one night on TV and had never heard of it I probably would of been one of the ones raving about it. A similar thing happened when I saw Zombie Land, and it's famous 'cameo'. I had heard so many reviews about said cameo that when it came I was expecting something spectacularly funny (although it was a great cameo!) The same thing happened the other night when I watched Tropic Thunder with Tom Cruises character, I watched it with two friends who kept saying "wait till you see Tom Cruise he's hilarious!" and then I found myself trying to find him funny when he appeared.

Tom Cruise...........blech.