5 Horror Icons Who Never Got A Fair Crack At The Whip

1. Werewolves

Okay so yeah, I get it, werewolves are a genre unto themselves and there are a bunch of great werewolf movies out there. But think about it, how many zombie and vampire movies have come along in the last decade? And before you race through all the werewolf movies that have been made of late (trust me there aren’t many) ask yourself how many of them have been released theatrically? I bet you can’t even get to the last digit on one hand.

Why do I love these guys so much? Well, because they’re werewolves dammit. They’re fast, brutal, savage, and ferocious and damn near unkillable. Now I love The Howling, American Werewolf in London, Dog Soldiers and recent offerings like Howl and Late phases (despite the werewolves in that looking like giant hairy gremlins), but when is the last time we got a high budget theatrically released werewolf movie? The Underworld movies don’t count – they’re action movies, I want horror.

With the onslaught of ghost and zombie movies hitting the big screen the last few years I have been hankering to see some werewolf carnage, but they just don’t get the love they deserve. Seriously give me some terrifying wolf action. I want it. Something akin to Bryan Bertino’s The Monster, something tragic, heartfelt and fucking scary.

Not to say I’m dismissing the latest batch of werewolf movies – trust me I’m not – but if we got a great werewolf movie on the big screen, it would breathe some fresh life into the genre and maybe we’d get more filmmakers dabbling in the subgenre again.

With the upcoming remake of American werewolf in London (which better be good, please let it be good) I’m hoping these monsters finally get their time in the sun again (or the moon, whatever). With John Landis’s son Max and the producers of The Walking Dead involved things are looking bright (or dark, whatever).