25 Best Werewolf Movies Ever Made

Wolfen in part used its supernatural wolf story as a medium to condemn exploitative New York corporate culture. That theme was dialed up to eleven in the biggest werewolf movie of the 90s, this satirical office politics melodrama (with werewolves) from the director of The Graduate.

Something of a curio in director Mike Nichols's back catalogue, Wolf is appropriately enough a film with a bit of an identity crisis. Part of it wants to be an update of a classic gothic Wolf Man tale to the contemporary city, part of it a satire on masculinity, mid-life crises and corporate rivalry. It's the latter that's more fun.

Jack Nicholson is not the obvious choice to play a timid, put-upon literary editor, but he is perfectly placed to revel in transforming into a more swaggeringly beastly character. James Spader, meanwhile, is a natural fit for the slimy ambitious sleazeball looking to take both Nicholson's job and his wife.

The movie is at its best when going all in on the rivalry between the older man and the younger as each gradually gets taken over by their monstrous wolf side and the whole thing becomes a literal pissing contest.

Wolf is an oddity, but an enjoyable one.