* AdaptationDisplacement: The movie is more known than the book.
* AwardSnub: How was Gerry Fisher's cinematography not nominated for an Oscar?
* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Music/JamesHorner provided the score.
** Originally Craig Safan recorded an equally nightmarish score (which in a manner channels or was something of an early copy of the horror film score works by fellow movie composers Music/MichaelKamen and Don Davis) that was later rejected.
* OlderThanTheyThink: The film has the wolves using [[BizarreAlienSenses thermographic vision]] throughout the film. Come 1987, ''Film/{{Predator}}'' borrows a similar look for its titular creature's POV.
* ReferencedBy: Explicitly referenced by the Mooninites in ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce''.
-->'''Ignignokt:''' Our god is an Indian that turns into a wolf.
-->'''Err:''' Yeah, that's ''Wolfen'', man.
-->'''Ignignokt:''' Well...the Wolfen will come for you with his razor.
* RetroactiveRecognition: Hey, that's Creator/EdwardJamesOlmos! And that's [[MaleFrontalNudity his dick]]!
* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: So our protagonists are okay with the Wolfen eating drug addicts and vagrants?
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