Chaske Spencer, New Moon
Yes, yes, Twilight is stupid and for children, but there's something kind of awesome about this cranky pack leader. Could just be the fact that he has the abs and, unlike Taylor Lautner, is actually legal, but you can't prove anything. Moving on!

Michael J. Fox, Teen Wolf
You'd think turning into a wolf in front of your entire high school in the middle of a basketball game would hurt your popularity quotient. Not so for Teen Wolf; he became the quadruple doubling Harlem Globetrotter of his school and soon even had his own successful clothing line, basically becoming The Situation of the '80s.

Katharine Isabelle, Ginger Snaps
The fear of female sexuality is well represented in vampire tales, but less so explicitly in werewolf ones, and this story about a girl named Ginger who turns into a furry, menstruating homicidal maniac in the middle of her adolescence is one of the best, most subversive variations in the genre. This movie is what Jennifer's Body wishes it was.

Michael Sheen, Underworld and Underworld: Rise of the Lycans
There's something about seeing such a fancy shmancy actor have so much fun playing a campy horror trope that is just very satisfying. And considering how little fun he must have been having behind the scenes of the first movie, it's especially impressive.

Jack Nicholson, Wolf
Overall, this movie is a laughably bad attempt at over-sexualized horror noir, but Nicholson's performance is great. The movie is the middle-aged dissatisfaction counterpart to movies like Ginger Snaps, with Nicholson experiencing an onset of feral virility after being replaced by his young protégé once he's considered obsolete at work. He goes crazy, cheats on his wife, acts like he's 25, eats a live deer and is eventually banished to a life in the forest, something we'll all eventually go through at his age.

David Naughton, An American Werewolf in London
The movie contains quite possibly the best werewolf transformation scene of all time, and though a great deal of that is attributable to the revolutionary makeup techniques applied by Rick Baker (so good the Academy invented the Oscar category for Achievement in Makeup for his work in this movie), Naughton's work in the scene is no joke either. He's also almost as funny as Griffin Dunne for the rest of the movie, which is just another reason it's such a classic.

Everyone, The Howling
Screenwriter John Sayles really knows how to strike at the core of humanity's deepest fears. I can't count the times I've laid awake all night, paralyzed at the thought of my next vacation destination turning into a werewolf swingers' orgy halfway through the trip.

Reverend Lowe, Silver Bullet
A man of God and a bloodthirsty werewolf who kills (mostly) sinners? Is he single? Joking aside, this movie is also noteworthy for having a conventional silver bullet as well as a wheelchair/motorcycle hybrid called the "Silver Bullet" -- a nice switcheroo, that -- as well as a role for Gary Busey back before he was publicly insane.

Honorable mention: The creatures in Dog Soldiers. Huge, scary, murderous things; not a lotta personality though.

Your favorites? Oh, do tell!