25 Best Werewolf Movies Ever Made

The story of Little Red Riding Hood and the big bad wolf has been a reference point for countless later works of werewolf fiction. Many of them, like the glossy but blank 2011 film Red Riding Hood from Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke, simply fail to land. The mix of fairytale imagination and adult horror was absolutely nailed, though, by this 1984 film adapted from the feminist revisionist fairytales of Angela Carter.

Not a single reworking of Red Riding Hood with werewolves, The Bloody Chamber instead weaves together several inventive versions of the story with different perspectives and different outcomes, whether showing the perils of young women in a world of savage masculinity or women turning the tables with their own animalistic side.

Director Neil Jordan, who would return to a similar lushly gothic territory with Interview With The Vampire, gives the whole movie a woozy dreamlike atmosphere and an eerie stylishness.

The Company Of Wolves is packed with bold and occasionally nightmarish imagery that will stay with you long after the fact. It really stretches its relatively limited budget with lavish costume scenes and imaginative effects like the wolf seeming to force itself out from inside the huntsman, pushing its lupine jaw through his open mouth.