The Top 10 Badass Werewolves in Film

 

On May 8th, the fourth film in the pleather-clad monster mash series Underworld will be released on DVD and Blu-Ray. It is called Underworld: Awakening, and it teaches us that the battle between the underground vampire army and their hoary werewolf rivals (called “lycans”) is an eternal struggle for dominance. Never mind that there are also half-vampire-half-werewolf beings in this universe. And why would any werewolf want to kill the lithe and beautiful Kate Beckinsale while she’s wearing a fetching skintight vinyl catsuit?

Thinking up the best vampire movies is an easy task, as bloodsuckers have been given their fair share of screentime. Vampires have been cast as anything from diseased monsters, dangerous vermin, dashing Byronic royalty, angsty Goth navel-gazers, stumbling children, cool punkers, and, to the most recent generation, sparking romantic poets with killer abs. Sub-categorizing vampires is a no-brainer. Werewolves, by contrast, have been given short shrift at the movies. True, there are hundreds of werewolf movies throughout film history (indeed, there’s are a few dandy websites devoted entirely to the topic, but there aren’t as many truly great and universally recognized werewolf movies as there are great and universally recognized vampire movies. Werewolves are also often the same type of monster from film to film. They’re never seen as stumbling children, or as European royalty. And they’re so rarely cool.

Well, to rectify that, I have rifled through my mental Rolodex (if anyone still remembers what a Rolodex is), and come up with ten of the coolest werewolves in film history. These are not necessarily scary monsters. These are not necessarily badass killing machines (although there are plenty of those). These are just the werewolves that you’d want to hang out with, provided they wouldn’t bit you.

 



Full Disclosure: This article was sponsored by Screen Gems.

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