Teen Wolf (1985) poster
1985 · comedy · fantasy · romance · coming-of-age

Teen Wolf

Directed by Rod Daniel1h 32m1985
ElsewhereIMDb6.165kRT46%Metacritic25
  • cosy
  • brisk
  • gentle
  • redemptive
  • tender
Movie DNA

Cosy, kinetic, gentle comedy / fantasy, inventive in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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When a shy teenager's new-found powers help him score at basketball - and with the popular girls - he has some pretty hairy decisions to make.

Our read · Teen Wolf (1985) reads as a cosy, kinetic, inventive comedy · fantasy · romance entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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What watching it is actually like.

You want breezy eighties teen fantasy where lycanthropy fixes basketball and confidence.

ends upliftingyou’ll feel glowing aftergrabs you earlygrips by minute 7attention 2/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around

Skip it tonightYou want actual horror, sharp writing, or anything darker than feel-good silliness.

DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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