10 Great Werewolf Movies (That Nobody Ever Talks About)

Coming from the chameleon-like Irish director Neil Jordan, the helmer of everything from The Crying Game to Michael Collins to Interview with a Vampire, 1984's The Company of Wolves is another unexpected left field success for the filmmaker's varied oeuvre.

A sexy gothic fantasy take on lycanthropy (it’s another “nascent sexuality metaphor” one), this collection of stories is adapted from Angela Carter's twisted, distinctly adult fairy tale re-imaginings.

Here, Red Riding Hood takes command of her own appetite in an intense, scary, and explicitly sexual story of maturity, responsibility, and temptation which skirts with dark themes but never veers too far into disturbing territory or corny pure fantasy.