Well, there are two schools of thought… Few would argue John Landis’ An American Werewolf in London remains the gold standard for lycanthrope cinema. A shrewd and effective update of The Wolf ...

Peter Stumpp's alleged crimes and execution remain one of the most legendary — and disputed — werewolf trials in history Sean Neumann is a reporter at PEOPLE. He has been working at PEOPLE ...

Stories about werewolves took hold in the mid-1400s, according to History.com, but the origins of the idea date back as far as 2100 B.C. Early civilizations used tales of humans transforming into ...

Take a break from Super Bowl madness with some super howl madness, and watch The Curse of the Werewolf, screening on the Feb.

(An earlier Universal werewolf picture, Werewolf of London, failed to kick off its own sub-series some years earlier, but gets credit for being the first feature-length werewolf movie ever!) ...

5 / 12 Released the same year as the far superior An American Werewolf in London, The Howling also boasts impressive special effects, but it straddles the line between camp and horror with less ...

the first cinematic werewolf film as we know the genre today came with 1934’s Werewolf of London. Starring Henry Hull as a botanist turned lycanthrope, the Universal Pictures production features ...

Featuring a terrific blend of horror, tragedy, and comedy, An American Werewolf in London set itself apart from traditional werewolf movies while setting a whole new standard for the subgenre.

It's been nearly a century since the first wolf-man took a bite out of the big screen, when 1935's Werewolf of London — yes, his hair was perfect — kicked off a long, lupine tradition of ...

American actor David Naughton on the set of An American Werewolf in London, written and directed by ... [+] John Landis. (Photo by Universal Pictures/Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images ...

and while the film is bound to send viewers in search of other pillars of the genre—films like An American Werewolf In London, The Howling, and recent hits like Werewolves Within—there are ...