Animated Films
- In Turning Red, the main character Mei discovers that she has inherited a magical superpower passed down through the generations of her family that allows her to transform into a giant red panda whenever she feels strong emotions:
- Mei demonstrates that with the right thoughts, the transformation can be controlled.
- There are connections to the full moon. Sun Yee was given the ability under a red moon, and the form can be sealed during the first red moon after the transformation manifests.
- The size seems to depend on how much emotions have been bottled, as when Ming's panda form shows up after years of suppressed emotions, she's a Kaiju.
- In Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island, Lena Dupree, Simone Lenoir, and Jacques (the movie's true villains) turn out to be werecats (also referred to as "cat creatures"). According to the backstory, they were members of a pagan cult that worshiped a cat god. They prayed to this deity, granting them the ability to transform into horrifying feline-humanoid monsters with the power to drain the life-energy out of other people, allowing them to indefinitely extend their own lifespans while turning their victims into undead ghouls.
- Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit featured the eponymous creature. The were-rabbit turns out to actually be Wallace himself after an experiment gone awry.
- In Zootopia, the "savage" animals are evocative of this trope, especially in the scene where Judy and Nick watch Manchas going savage. However since all the characters are already anthropomorphic animals, there is no physical transformation; but the victims lose their humanlike sapience, reverting to a four-legged primal stance (reminiscent of their non-anthropomorphic ancestors) and displaying extremely feral, aggressive behavior. The cause of all these mental transformations turns out to be each victim having been individually drugged with a potent neurotoxin extracted from a rare flower, all as part of the villain's evil plan to cause chaos and mass hysteria in the film's eponymous city.
Live-Action Films
- Black Sheep (2007) has two characters becoming weresheep after being bitten by the titular killer ovines.
- The Blood Beast Terror has weremoths created by mad science. Both forms are a natural part of their being, with the human part being used as bait to attract prey. They also have a remarkably fast transformation, depicted as almost instantaneous.
- Cat People involved people that could turn into black panthers in sexual situations. The 1982 film makes them ancestrally incestuous — only sex with another werecat prevents the transformation, and if a werecat has sex with a human, the only way they can change back from their panther form is to kill a human.
- The Hideous Sun Demon (1959) features the rare were-lizard man. This one is caused by exposure to intense radiation, but unlike lunar-controlled were-creatures, this one transforms when he is hit by the light of the SUN.
- The Hobbit has Beorn, a mighty werebear who lives far from civilized lands, and - naturally - keeps bees. He's grouchy and untrusting at first, but basically a good guy, and shows up at the climactic battle fighting on the heroes' side.
- Howling III: The Marsupials features were-thylacines. Thylacines are an extinct marsupial predator more commonly known as the Tasmanian Tiger. They're portrayed as quite sympathetic, but also more disgusting than standard werewolves when it comes to bodily functions. For one thing, they have pouches, even in otherwise fully human form.
- It Lives by Night is about a man turning into a were-bat.
- Ladyhawke features a couple of young lovers cursed to take on animal form at different times, as to keep them apart; the man turns into a wolf at night, and the lady into a... guess what.
- Scary or Die features were-clowns with an insatiable desire to eat children.
- In the film The Secret of Roan Inish the eponymous secret involves a selkie.
- Sting Of Death was a 1965 B-Movie Horror that dealt with a were-jellyfish.
- Track of the Moon Beast (1976) is the other were-lizard movie, and has quite possibly one of the most bizarre explanations of lycanthropy ever. Apparently when the Native American spirits created humanity, they used lizard essence to give humans hands. A fragment of moon rock fallen to Earth is infused with radioactivity (despite moon rocks not containing any radioactive elements) which reacts with the leftover lizard DNA to turn the title character into a were-lizard under the light of the full moon.
- The White Reindeer (1952) has a woman turn into what for all intents and purposes is a vampiric were-reindeer.
