25 Best Werewolf Movies Ever Made

Essentially the poor man's Hammer (which is saying something, given how cheapskate some of the Hammer productions were), Amicus Productions were the other British horror studio of the 60s and 70s. While today they are mostly remembered for their portmanteau films of multiple short horror stories - the likes of From Beyond The Grave and Dr Terror's House Of Horrors, the latter of which featured its own werewolf story - Amicus made a host of other gothic chillers.

The Beast Must Die is Amicus's take on a mystery-monster movie hybrid. In it, a millionaire big game hunter invites guests including Peter Cushing's archaeologist, Michael Gambon's pianist and Charles Gray's diplomat to his mansion in the countryside. There he reveals that one of the guests is a werewolf, and once they figure out which, that person will be killed.

There are shades of And Then There Were None and The Most Dangerous Game in this goofy genre mash-up that is best enjoyed for the quality cast hamming it up.

Most memorably, the movie's signature gimmick was a "werewolf break", a 30-second pause before the final reveal in which the movie's audience is asked to guess the werewolf's identity from the clues already revealed. If that kind of antiquated gimmickry is the sort of thing that sells you on a movie then The Beast Must Die is for you.