Werewolf Winter: Blood & Chocolate (2007)

Here is a scene I imagine must have happened around 2007:

MOVIE EXECUTIVE: That Twilight book is huge right now, and they're coming out with a movie soon. Teen girls are swooning! These supernatural romances are so hot. Is there another teen supernatural book that we can make into a highly profitable film?

PRODUCTION MANAGER: Well, there's this book called Blood & Chocolate...

MOVIE EXEC: Does it have a human and a supernatural creature falling in love?

PRODUCTION MAN: Yes.

MOVIE EXEC: Does it have a love triangle?

PRODUCTION MAN: Yes, absolutely.

MOVIE EXEC: Do the human and the supernatural creature run off together, surviving the disapproval of both their worlds, you know just like Romeo and Juliet?

PRODUCTION MAN: Uh, well, no. Not exactly.

MOVIE EXEC: Oh no! We'll have to change that - teens love that forbidden love stuff! Well, does it at least have a message that the main female is only important as an object of male affection?

PRODUCTION MAN: Actually no! She learns to accept herself first, before she-

MOVIE EXEC: No no no! That's no good! No good at all! Call the script writer- we're gonna' need some changes!

Werewolf Winter: Kibakichi (2004)

Oh Japan, I don't even think I can be surprised by you anymore. You've given the world cyborg-priest half-vampire vampire hunters, so why not a roaming samurai werewolf who fights demons? This is Kibakichi.

Werewolf Winter: Dog Soldiers (2002)

"We in it shall be remembered, we few, we happy few, we band of brothers - for he today that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother." - Shakespeare, Henry V

While it is usually a good idea not to judge a book by its cover or title, the same is not often said of movies. However, if I had followed that rule, I would likely not have watched the deceptively titled and cheesily packaged 2002 Scottish movie Dog Soldiers. And that would have been quite a loss indeed.

Werewolf Winter: Cursed (2005)

So, it's 90 degrees F where I live and no longer resembling winter in the slightest... but we still have a handful of werewolf movies to go! And so we press on.

This next film stars a plethora of people who would someday be mildly famous. From the guy from Dawson's Creek who is not Dawson, to Peter from Heroes (who we've seen in supernatural movies before), to no-really-I'm-not-Mark-Zuckerberg, to Smallville's Lex Luthor, to Wednesday Addams - this is Cursed.
 

Werewolf Winter: Ginger Snaps (2000)

So Winter has officially ended and Spring is here, but the werewolf movies continue. After all, I still have to get through the 2000s! Which brings us to the first and most famous werewolf movie of the 2000-era: Ginger Snaps.
 

Werewolf Winter: The Wolves of Kromer (1998)

So far we have seen werewolves as symbolic of human aggression, female sexuality, and teenagers going through puberty. And now, with The Wolves of Kromer, we now have a film where wolves are symbolic of gay men in the 1990s.

Very subtle symbolism...

Werewolf Winter: Wolf (1994)

Jack Nicholson is one of those actors who is excellent at playing himself. When he was The Joker in Batman, he played Jack Nicholson in clown make-up. When he was a mental patient in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, he was Jack Nicholson in a beanie and five o'clock shadow. And in Wolf, Jack Nicholson plays Jack Nicholson as a werewolf.