October Horror Movie Challenge: Teen Wolf (1985)

Ok. So. I was talking with my wife over the weekend while doing yard cleanup (it was 70 this past weekend in Chicago!) and I was talking about how I am trying to figure out what species could be found in Jackson Public High School. I have humans, half-demons, and even some ghosts. I was considering some were-creatures like werewolves. She liked the werewolf idea, but she likes werewolves. So I thought I'd go with the movie at the intersection of high school, werewolves, and the 1980s. 1985's "Teen Wolf."Teen Wolf (1985)So yeah, this is a rewatch. I saw this in theatres when it first came out. Michael J. Fox plays Scott Howard, a fairly ordinary high school kid who discovers lycanthropy runs in the family. Instead of becoming a ravening monster, he becomes better at basketball, more confident, more popular, and a lot hairier.What interests me now is how completely Teen Wolf removes werewolves from traditional horror. There is no curse to break, no silver bullet, no tragic…