"You've got to be careful. You're a wolf, you know."
Just watched The Wolves of Kromer (1998), and oh my god I would have been so obsessed with this movie if I had seen it when I was fourteen: witches and Red Riding Hood and GAY WEREWOLF ALLEGORY. Even then I would probably have found it pretty silly, but it's also quite sweet and sincere, and good at playing a range of moods and registers - a couple of scenes with the witches are surprisingly creepy, in a camptastic way, and I teared up at the ending.
Gabriel is a faintly dissolute Pan-type, an experienced werewolf; Seth is a teenage runaway. They're both played by models. They trot around barefoot in the woods at the edge of a town, wearing fake fur coats with wired tails sticking out the back, and have conversations like:
"Surely they suspected. Parents can always tell when their kids will turn out to be wolves."
"They'd always suspected. Mum used to tell me to tuck my tail into my jeans. And Dad used to make jokes about 'boys like me.' It's like they just hoped it would go away."
and:
"But I'm PROUD to be a wolf!"
"Oh that's just great Seth."
The movie is narrated by Boy George (it all feels very '80's), and it's currently streaming free on Netflix. I have no idea why everyone stands up and starts singing "Jerusalem" at the closeted homophobic priest at the end - is it a British thing?