However, when the most animalistic thing that you werewolf does is to tear the shirt off a jock jerk, you know your werewolf movie has a problem. Well, at least not until the mandatory climactic crisis, where he’s forced to come to terms with his “gift” or “curse”or whatever. The problem is that our plucky lead character doesn’t seem to have any real conflict with those darker animal urges. After all, the werewolf story is about the animal we all have tucked away inside us. I’m not talking about gore or violence or anything like that, but something even remotely unpleasant about the experience. After all, if you’re going to transform into a horror movie monster, there must be some element of horror. Reimagining this aspect of teenage life as a horror movie transformation might not be an especially complex idea, but it’s a good one.Ī large part of the problem with Teen Wolf is the execution. If you’re feeling especially melodramatic, it’s a particularly simple for of body horror – your body literally morphs into something radically different. You feel different from everybody else, because it’s an immensely private and personal experience. On one level, it’s a fair obvious premise. Scott’s attempt to grow a beard has gone horribly wrong…