9. Beware the remake?

Because it has name-brand recognition, a built in cult core audience and a killer concept, Werewolf is naturally in the targets for a trip to the re-imagination slaughterhouse.

Yes, in an age when even Freddy Krueger is being reborn with a new (yet still scarred) face and freshly pressed striped jumper, it's not really shocking that Landis' film could be considered a likely candidate.

And the writer/director himself appears to be behind the idea. "Sure I'd do it," he told Bloody Disgusting in 2008 and a year later Dimension Films announced it had secured the rights to make a new movie based on the idea.

Given the company's swelling slate of remakes (the likes of Hellraiser and Children Of The Corn are already tumbling through development limbo), it seems unlikely we'll see the new outing any time soon.

And there's a hefty argument to be made that we don't ever need to see a remake - Baker's effects still hold up well and if the sequel told us anything, it's that other filmmakers just don't have the tone down.

Still, it's not like that will stop them. But for a generation, the original - and best  - Werewolf will keep prowling the countryside. "Close to the meat…"

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