History Film / Werewolf

* BlackBestFriend[=/=]TokenMinority: Elgin. The trope is so blatant as to almost be a parody.
-->'''[[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 Mike]]:''' Elgin is my ''black'' friend.

* SkinWalker: InNameOnly.

See the rundown of the ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' episode [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S09E04Werewolf here]]

Not to be confused with the [[TabletopGame/{{Werewolf}} card game]] or the [[Series/{{Werewolf}} 1987 TV series]] of the same name

-->'''Servo (as Natalie):''' People say "rack" to me a lot. I wonder why that is.

* ShesGotLegs: Carrie is considerably more attractive than Natalie and she doesn't need pants to prove it.

The movie remained mostly obscure until it became the feature of a 1998 episode of ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000''. ''Werewolf'' was noteworthy for having been released only two years previous to the [=MST3K=] episode mocking it, making it the most recent film the series tackled,[[note]]''Film/FutureWar is sometimes considered for the spot as it was filmed in 1994 but not released until 1999, though they've since both been beaten by 2013's ''Film/AtlanticRim''[[/note]] as well as one of the only films they riffed that was created during the run of the show itself. Mike Nelson and his robot friends made considerable light of the clumsy direction of the film, the relatively cheap, inconsistent nature of the werewolf costumes, Adrianna Miles' bad English and her constant pronunciation of the word werewolf as wuhr-welf, about the full moon occurring every single night in the movie, the fact that Yuri has a different hairstyle in almost every scene, the fact that the security guard drove past the same location several times while a werewolf, and the fact that almost all the cast – despite playing Americans – spoke with various thick accents, saying such phrases as "you and Noel is in it for fame and fortune? But '''o'''ver my dead '''bo'''dy!" Because of the numerous ripe opportunities for riffing, Kevin Murphy, who played Tom Servo, referred to the film as "a gift from God". Mike and the Bots also sing various songs to the film's closing credit music, in the style of Music/FleetwoodMac's "Tusk".

The movie remained mostly obscure until it became the feature of a 1998 episode of ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000''. ''Werewolf'' was noteworthy for having been released only two years previous to the [=MST3K=] episode mocking it, making it the most recent film the series tackled, as well as one of the only films they riffed that was created during the run of the show itself. Mike Nelson and his robot friends made considerable light of the clumsy direction of the film, the relatively cheap, inconsistent nature of the werewolf costumes, Adrianna Miles' bad English and her constant pronunciation of the word werewolf as wuhr-welf, about the full moon occurring every single night in the movie, the fact that Yuri has a different hairstyle in almost every scene, the fact that the security guard drove past the same location several times while a werewolf, and the fact that almost all the cast – despite playing Americans – spoke with various thick accents, saying such phrases as "you and Noel is in it for fame and fortune? But '''o'''ver my dead '''bo'''dy!" Because of the numerous ripe opportunities for riffing, Kevin Murphy, who played Tom Servo, referred to the film as "a gift from God". Mike and the Bots also sing various songs to the film's closing credit music, in the style of Music/FleetwoodMac's "Tusk".

Not to be confused with the [[TabletopGame/{{Werewolf}} card game]] of the same name.

-->'''Yuri:''' You callin' me a psychopath?!?
-->'''Crow:''' (''as Yuri'') I'll kill your whole family if you say that again!
-->'''Tom Servo:''' (''as Yuri'') Get out before my dog tells me to shoot the president!
-->''Later...''
-->'''Mike:''' (''as Yuri'') I can't believe people call me a psycho— I'm gonna take those people's heads and carve 'em into ashtrays!

-->'''Crow:''' (''as Yuri'') Whaddaya think, folks? Should I follow him?

* {{Infodump}}: The explanation of Werewolves early in the movie.

* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: Most of the characters, but especially Natalie.[[note]] Adriana Niles, nee Biedrzyńska, is Polish[[/note]]

* [[DeathBySex (Almost) Death By Sex]]: Natalie gets turned into a werewolf by their doing the nasty with a lycanthropizing Paul.

Archaeologists working in Arizona find a werewolf skeleton. In this film, werewolves are part of American Indian mythology, which the head archaeologist, Noel, calls a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skin-walker skin-walker]] or ''yee naaldlooshii'' (which somehow gets pronounced "Yetiglanchi"). And apparently werewolves take on habits such as "sleeping nose to anus".[note]"What? It's fun!"[/note]

Archaeologists working in Arizona find a werewolf skeleton. In this film, werewolves are part of American Indian mythology, which the head archaeologist, Noel, calls a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skin-walker skin-walker]] or ''yee naaldlooshii'' (which somehow gets pronounced "Yetiglanchi"). And apparently werewolves take on habits such as "sleeping nose to anus" ("What? It's fun!").

-->'''Crow:''' (''as Yuri'') Call me a psychopath?!? I'll kill your whole family if you say that again!

* CaliforniaDoubling: Wherever this is, it's certainly not Flagstaff, Arizona.[[note]] Flagstaff is in the north of Arizona, at a rather high elevation, surrounded by pine forest. Due to its altitude, most precipitation the town gets is snow (and it gets a LOT). It's ''much'' less hot and arid than the parts of Arizona people are more familiar with.[[/note]]

* HotScientist: Say what you want, Adriana Niles is one comely lass.

* SilverBullet: Joe and his pal are somehow able to cobble together silver shotgun pellets in an evening's time to shoot their lycanthropizing buddy, Tommy. Subverted, though, in that this doesn't kill him, as he'd mentioned as being hospitalized afterward.

* SilverBullet: Joe and his pal are somehow able to cobble together silver shotgun pellets in an evening's time to shoot their lycanthropizing buddy, Tommy. Somewhat subverted in that it doesn't kill him.