Ever since cinema’s origins, werewolves have been a massive part of the greater horror canon, but they’ve never had a better year at the movies than 1981.
For a few decades, these giant dog-like beasts had taken a back seat in the mind of the movie-going public, but in ’81, audiences were treated with two bangers and an attempt at greatness with An American Werewolf in London, The Howling, and Wolfen.
It’s odd that there was such a huge craze going on so long after the original werewolf run back in the ’40s, but maybe this huge drought is what led to two major classics coming out of the early ’80s.
These three have plenty in common, but they do enough to stand out in their own ways to justify all being released in the same year.
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