Studio patch-it man Joe Johnston returns to revive the beleaguered werewolf movie genre with the The Wolfman, which triumphed over a long and troubled production history to prowl multiplexes with its mediocrity. (Sorry, spoilers.) In…celebration?…Al, Mariko and Simon take a look at Johnston’s opus as well as the 1941 original, along with two more allegorically inclined wolf stories, 2000′s Canadian cult flick Ginger Snaps, and Neil Jordan’s gory fairy tale The Company of Wolves.

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