Given that Dracula and Frankenstein had succumbed to the big-budget, all-star treatment in the early Nineties, the Wolf Man was the obvious classic horror candidate to complete the trilogy. It's a surprise to find such stars as Jack Nicholson and Michelle Pfeiffer involved in these goings-on, but then this is a slightly offbeat treatment of the legend, and one that wastes no time getting under way. Nicholson hits a wolf on a snowbound road, at a time when the full moon is at its closest to Earth. Bitten by the beast, he is soon feeling the first twitches of possession. The twist here is that his lupine elements give him heightened senses of smell, sight, hearing and perception, enabling him to fight back against the slimebag (James Spader) who has nicked his secure job as editor-in-chief at a publishing firm. To say more would spoil the plot, which rises to a fine crescendo, only to lope off slightly disappointingly over the horizon. The cast gives the hairy old piece better value than it's had in years.

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