A monster hunter who is himself the monster, taking part in a hunt he intends to lose.
Jack Russell is a monster hunter of Mexican ancestry who carries a curse that turns him into a werewolf. Gael García Bernal plays him in a special that runs under an hour, shot in black and white, and modelled on Universal horror films from the 1930s.
The trick of it is that the hunters are the villains and the monsters are the people. Jack enters the Bloodstone hunt in order to free Ted, and the special never once asks the audience to be afraid of either of them.
Show detailsAn hour, and no follow-up
Werewolf by Night was released as a Disney+ special in 2022 and neither of its leads has appeared since. It is one of the most self-contained things in this catalogue and one of the few that loses nothing by being watched first.