There aren’t many monsters more legendary than the werewolf. A creature who transforms with the full moon, the werewolf can represent so many things, from addiction and rage to puberty and sexuality.

Matthew Galea is a features writer for CBR. He spends his day as a high school English teacher, and every other minute watching, thinking and writing about movies and television. From Lon Chaney Jr.'s ...

Werewolf films have never had the same cultural impact as vampire movies, or kaiju movies, or ghost stories, but in many ways that lesser renown is a selling point. Because it’s a subgenre less ...

The ’80s had a ton of fantastic werewolf movies, many of which pushed the boundaries of practical in-camera transformation effects. One of the greatest of these is Joe Dante’s The Howling. Released in ...