11 Werewolf Movies That Broke All The Rules
2. Teen Wolf (1985)
If there's one thing that's remained true of almost every werewolf movie in history, it's that the films are always horrors. They could be suspense, slasher, or something else, but at their very core, the movies are meant to impose fear while telling a story about the nature of rage.
That's absolutely and unequivocally untrue of Teen Wolf, which is more of a teen comedy than anything else. It displays no horror elements outside of an initial transformation that's more akin to a teenage boy's confusion about puberty than it is about transforming into a hideous beast.
Everything about the movie is pure '80s comedy, and it broke so many werewolf rules. It almost doesn't qualify as being part of the genre.
Teen Wolf does rely on the trope of the inner-beast being more powerful than the person, but it flips the script by the end of the film. Fox's character's reliance on the power he felt as the eponymous Teen Wolf proved unnecessary in winning the basketball game, which was ultimately what the movie was all about.