In Africa, leopard men were the nightly beasts. In Russia, a bear that walked like a man was their monster. The Greeks had legends of men who turned into wolves. The first werewolf film made was a silent movie debuting in 1913. Later, in 1941 a classic werewolf movie called THE WOLF MAN kept audiences riveted to their seats.
Most werewolf movies have similar themes.
A man gets bitten by a werewolf and then becomes one himself. They always transform during a full moon. They seek to kill someone they love. It requires silver bullets or some special weapon to destroy the animal, and the animal usually dies, instead of being cured. In the two werewolf movies mentioned, a flower was an important ingredient or tell-tale sign of the wolfs prowling.