Highest-Rated Movies about 'Lycanthropy', Sort by Popularity

An American Werewolf in London (1981), Encore (2019), Dog Soldiers (2002), The Company of Wolves (1984), Small Town Girl (1936), Wolfen (1981), The Undying Monster (1942), House of Frankenstein (1945) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Lycanthropy movies.

#1. An American Werewolf in London (1981)

Storyline: Two American college students are on a walking tour of Britain and are attacked by a werewolf. One is killed, the other is mauled. The werewolf is killed but reverts to its human form, and the local townspeople are unwilling to acknowledge its existence. The surviving student begins to have nightmares of hunting on four feet at first but then finds that his friend and other recent victims appear to him, demanding that he commit suicide to release them from their curse, being trapped between worlds because of their unnatural deaths.

Plot Keywords: college student, werewolf, victim, nurse, doctor, gory, eerie ...

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#3. Dog Soldiers (2002)

Storyline: A British Squad is sent on a training mission in the Highlands of Scotland against Special Operations squad. Ignoring the childish "campfire" stories heard about the area, they continue with their mission and come across the bloody remains of the Special Ops Squad, and a fierce howling is pitching the night sky... With two mortally wounded men, they make an escape, running into a zoologist by the name of Megan - who knows exactly what hunts them. What began as what they thought was a training mission turns into a battle for their lives against the most unlikely enemies they would have expected - werewolves.

Plot Keywords: soldier, werewolf, zoologist, brutal, frightening, gory, cheeky ...

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#4. The Company of Wolves (1984)

Storyline: Rosaleen is a teenager, living in a country house in England with her family in the present days, and having a nightmare with wolves and werewolves in the Middle Ages. In her dream, her boring sister is dead, she lives with her father and her mother, but she spends lots of time with her lovely grandmother. Granny tells her many stories of werewolf and gives her the following advice: "- Never stray from the path in the woods, never eat a windfall apple, and never trust a man whose eyebrows meet." One day, Rosaleen, while going to visit her grandmother, meets a handsome man and bets who would arrive first at her granny's house. Soon she finds who he is.

Plot Keywords: young woman, grandmother, werewolf, hunter, bride, father, eerie ...

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#5. Small Town Girl (1936)

Storyline: Kay is a girl living in a small rural town whose life is just too dull and repetitious to bear. One night, she meets young, handsome, and rich Bob Dakin, who asks her for directions while drunk and then proceeds to take her out on a night on the town. Kay likes the stranger, and when the drunken Bob decides that they should get married, Kay hesitates little before consenting. The morning after the affair, Bob, once sober, regrets his mistake. His strict and upright parents, however, insist that the young couple pretend marriage for 6 months before divorcing, in order to avoid bad publicity. Bob resents Kay for standing in the way of him and his fiancée, Priscilla, but Kay still hopes that he'd have a change of heart.—Anonymous

Plot Keywords: country girl, wealthy man, parent, fiancée, suitor, wife, amusing ...

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#7. The Undying Monster (1942)

Storyline: A werewolf prowls around at night but only kills certain members of one family. It seems like just a coincidence but the investigating Inspector soon finds out that this tradition has gone on for generations and tries to find a link between the werewolf and the family, leading to a frightening conclusion.—Graeme Huggan <hia95gh@sheffield.ac.uk>

Plot Keywords: father, daughter, son, inspector, werewolf, eerie, suspenseful ...

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#8. House of Frankenstein (1945)

Storyline: Dracula arrives at Dr. Edelman's office asking for a cure to his vampirism. However, this is a ruse by Dracula to get near Dr. Edelman's beautiful female assistant and turn her into a vampire. Meanwhile, a sincere Lawrence Talbot, AKA the Wolfman, arrives seeking a cure for his lycanthropy. When Dr. Edelman's first attempt fails, Talbot tries to commit suicide by jumping off a cliff, but instead finds a network of underground caves where Frankensteins Monster is in stasis. Chaos ensues as the three monsters fight for dominance of each other.—Norman Cook <cook@ssdgwy.mdc.com>

Plot Keywords: werewolf, count dracula, dark, creepy, suspenseful, europe, vengeance ...

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#9. Blood and Chocolate (2007)

Storyline: In Bucharest, Romania, the orphan Vivian was raised by her aunt after losing her parents ten years ago in the Rocky Mountains, Colorado. Her family belongs to a bloodline of werewolves and Vivian is promised to the leader of the pack, Gabriel. When the American cartoonist Aiden, who is researching werewolves for his publisher for the next edition of his magazine, meets Vivian, they immediately fall in love for each other. However, the evil son of Gabriel and Vivian's cousin Rafe poisons Gabriel about the love of Vivian, forcing her to choose between her bounds with her family and her passion for Aiden.

Plot Keywords: werewolf, comic book artist, aunt, cousin, love interest, chilling, thrilling ...

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#10. Skinwalkers (2006)

Storyline: In accordance with the Navajos' legend, a thirteen year-old boy will finish with the curse of the powerful Skinwalkers, a.k.a. werewolves. The half-breed boy Timothy is raised by his human mother Rachel and protected by his Skinwalkers relatives since he was born. His grandmother Nana, his uncle Jonas, his cousin Katherine, her boyfriend Adam and their friend Doak have kept the secret about his bloodline and neither Timothy nor Rachel know the tragic curse. A couple of days before Timothy's thirteenth birthday, a pack of evil Skinwalkers that have tasted blood led by the evil Varek chases the boy while his family protects him.

Plot Keywords: mother, son, werewolf, uncle, cousin, boyfriend, thrilling ...

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#11. Werewolf Hunter: The Legend of Romasanta (2004)

Storyline: A series of gruesome and inexplicable murders plagues a small town in Spain. Against this backdrop of murder and paranoia, traveling vendor Manuel Romasanta (Julian Sands) seeks the affections of Barbara (Elsa Pataky), a woman who has lost several family members to the unknown serial killer. Barbara, however, quickly begins to suspect that all is not right with Romasanta, and he turns to an unbelievable story to explain his murderous actions--he claims to be a werewolf.

Plot Keywords: scientist, vendor, killer, sister, love interest, werewolf, chilling ...

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