Starring: Emily Perkins, Katharine Isabelle. Kris Lemche, Mimi Rogers

Controversial upon its release and now a cult favorite, Ginger Snaps is uses the monthly werewolf turn and cravings to be analogous with the strange horror of becoming a woman. Fifteen-year-old Brigitte Fitzgerald and her nearly-sixteen-year-old sister Ginger are both best friends and outcasts. Obsessed with dying and bound by a childhood pact to stay together forever, they loathe their mind-numbing existence in the suburbs of Bailey Downs. One night the two girls are heading through the woods when Ginger is savagely attacked by a wild creature and while her wounds heal, something about her is not quite right.

No werewolf program is complete without the ultimate Universal horror classic, THE WOLF MAN.

Although a smattering of werewolf movies preceded it, including 1935’s The Werewolf of London, it’s Lon Chaney’s iconic role for Universal Pictures’ The Wolf Man that defined the werewolf in cinema. He plays Larry Talbot, a man visiting Wales to attend his brother’s funeral. While in town, he purchases a silver cane which he uses to kill a wolf who attacks him on the walk home one night. Turns out that it was actually a man, a gypsy’s son who was a werewolf, and now Larry is one too. And so ensues the internal struggle of man versus monster!

Part of Nitehawk’s March BARK AT THE MOON series.

A Los Angeles news anchor uncovers a colony of shapeshifting werewolves in Joe Dante’s THE HOWLING.

After news anchor Karen Dee assists in the plot to capture the man who’s been stalking her, a rather traumatizing endeavor, she is sent to a secluded countryside resort to treat her amnesia. Unfortunately this place, called “The Colony,” houses a pack of shapeshifting werewolves who are hell bent on turning Karen, her husband, and her friend into one of them. Along with another werewolf movie released the same year, An American Werewolf in London, Joe Dante’s The Howling features a graphic transformation scene, albeit much sexier, but the creatures were designed to lend a much more nonhuman aspect. Fun fact, it’s also the film that lead Dante to direct another bunch of unruly monsters…Gremlins!

Part of Nitehawk’s March BARK AT THE MOON series.

Find out how wild high school can be when you’re a TEEN WOLF!

Teen Wolf is everyone’s fun favorite teenage werewolf flick! The typical high school identity crisis is compounded for Scott Howard (Michael J. Fox) when his father reveals to him that being a werewolf runs in the family. Trying to turn his difference into a positive, Scott uses it to dazzle on his school basketball team and to win the heart of a young lady. But managing teenage hormones can be difficult and, as high school complications come his way, Scott wonders if his half-human/half-werewolf pedigree makes others see him as a monster or a hero. See how being special has its issues!

Part of Nitehawk’s March BARK AT THE MOON series.

A backpacking trip through England gets hairy in John Landis’ AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON.

With amazing special effects and slight comedic undertone, An American Werewolf in London is a perfect John Landis movie that nearly defies genre. It very quickly begins with a wolf attack on two American college friends, David (David Naughton) and Jack (Griffin Dunne), who are backpacking through the UK. Jack dies while David wakes up alive in a London hospital with some mysterious marks. Haunted by those who have been killed by the werewolf and by some strange new nocturnal activities, David realizes that he is now the werewolf and the only way to end the cycle, is to end his life. Beware the Moors!

Part of Nitehawk’s March BARK AT THE MOON series.

The battle between the Vampires and Lycans gets a lot of action in UNDERWORLD.

The aughts gave film a very sleek, sexy, and action-packed vision of the werewolf in Underworld. We quickly catch up on the centuries long war between the Vampires and the Lycans as Selene, a beautiful vampire death dealer, is tasked to eradicate the last of the werewolves. Only one problem: she meets a handsome young human, also hunted by the Lycans, who isn’t quite what he seems. Discovering that he holds the key that could end this battle, she must decide where her allegiances lie. Which side will you choose?

Part of Nitehawk’s March BARK AT THE MOON series.

Find out about Gabriel Bryne’s deal with the devil Keyser Soze in THE USUAL SUSPECTS.

In The Usual Suspects, a multi-million dollar heist in San Pedro Harbor ends with an explosion, few survivors, and a whole lot of questions. The story of the ordeal unfolds after five suspects are hauled into the Los Angeles police department, including Dean Keaton (Gabriel Bryne) who’s a former corrupt police officer involved in the massacre. But it’s a disabled con man called Verbal Kint who weaves the tale of evil crime lord Keyser Soze, whom he describes as the one who lead himself and the other suspects to the harbor. Kint’s description of Soze’s stature and the incident will have you mesmerized until the revealing end.

Part of Nitehawk’s March IRISH THRILLS brunch series.

Liam Neeson fights everyone to get back his kidnapped daughter in TAKEN.

Give me back my daughter! Liam Neeson is Bryan Mills, a divorced former government agent who is trying to reconnect with his daughter. And he gets to do this but not after he has to pretty much fight the world to get her back from the sex slavers who abducted her from Paris! With only four days until she’s auctioned off, he has to make his way to Europe and through every bad guy possible to save her. Of course, he’ll use all of his black ops skills to do so…much to everyone’s surprise and the audience’s delight!

Part of Nitehawk’s March IRISH THRILLS brunch series.

Starring: Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Ralph Fiennes, Ciarán Hinds

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After a particularly difficult hit job goes wrong in London, gangsters Ray (Colin Farrell) and Ken (Brendan Gleeson) head to Belgium while things blow over. While they wander around the medieval city of Bruges to kill time, Ray complains about how bored he is while Ken finds beauty in solace in the quiet life. Things become increasingly surreal as the two encounter a movie set, tourists, potential lovers and the fate to be imposed upon Ray by their cruel British boss. In Bruges is a strangely beautiful film, violent and quiet, that exposes the fine line between happiness and sadness, life and death, reality and fantasy.

Starring: Saoirse Ronan, Cate Blanchett, Eric Bana, Vicky Krieps

Hanna is a beautiful non-stop action chase film where Hollywood blockbuster meets European arthouse. Hanna (Saoirse Ronan) is a young girl who has been trained since birth by her ex-CIA agent father in the deep woods of Finland to be an unbeatable assassin. After her father sends her off on her life’s mission, she stealthily makes her way across Europe while evading agents sent after her by a ruthless operative named Marissa, who once worked with Hanna’s father. As she draws closer to her target, Hanna faces startling revelations about her existence and begins to question her humanity.