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Awkward Nebraska high schooler Scott Howard (Fox) is a flop on the basketball court and practically invisible to girls, but all of that changes when he discovers he’s inherited the curse—and the gift—of lycanthropy from his father, achieving local celebrity thanks to his slam-dunking werewolf alter ego. Taking in nearly 20 times its meager budget at the box office, it was Teen Wolf, alongside the same year’s Back to the Future, that established Fox as the bankable teen star of the moment: a tailor-made outfit for the actor’s self-effacing charm, a veritable runway showcase for the delirious excesses of ’80s fashion, and to our knowledge the only American studio production to feature a scene of lupine break-dancing.

Distributor: Park Circus

35mm print courtesy of the American Genre Film Archive