Very carefully – just make sure you have one of those roller thingies that picks up hair off your clothes. This is indeed a time for werewolves to shine, after being upstaged by vampires for many years. Now for me, a vampire’s going to turn me on EVERY SINGLE TIME (except for the vamps in 30 Days of Night; they were scary-looking – and in need of some cleaning up). But werewolves have their certain charm, generally before they turn into beasties.
This year we’ve got young studly Taylor Lautner as a protective werewolf in New Moon and Benicio Del Toro as The Wolf Man [pictured], both movies coming out in November. But wait, there’s more. According to Hollywood Reporter, Dimension Films is thinking of remaking John Landis’ An American Werewolf in London, “to make an elevated genre picture that will keep the fun comedy elements of the original as it seeks to be relevant to contemporary audiences.” Heavy sigh. This is entirely unnecessary. Besides maybe updating the special effects, modern-day audiences can still enjoy this 1981 cult classic because it totally holds up: