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Sometimes a movie takes on the stink of a bomb for no good reason. Take Benicio Del Toro's recent chiller, "The Wolfman."

Hatched as a bloody, gothic update of Universal's still-terrific 1941 classic starring Lon Chaney Jr. as a man who sprouts hair and fangs after getting bitten by a werewolf, the lavish remake was mostly panned by critics as an overpriced turkey. And that seemed enough to keep people away. After all, if they wanted their lycanthrope fix, they could always watch the "Twilight" movies. But here's the thing: those movies are dreadful and Del Toro's is better than you've been led to believe.

Del Toro plays a prodigal son living far away from his family's country estate, who returns home after his brother is killed under mysterious circumstances. The brother's fiancé, played by Emily Blunt, has a hand in luring him back, where his father, played by a creepy Anthony Hopkins seems to be become a nutty old eccentric. There, Del Toro has his fateful night-time run-in with a werewolf and is doomed to a life of drooling bloodlust every full moon.

Del Toro underplays his part, while Hopkins chews the scenery as if it was made of Hubba Bubba. And poor Blunt just looks helpless as she holds her breath in a series of corsets. Still, let's be honest, the reason you want to see this thing is the werewolf killing sprees, which are better and bloodier on the new DVD's unrated version.

If you like creepy atmospherics and gore spraying like geysers, forget what you've heard, this is the Wolfman for you.

Now for a look at what else is new on DVD: in "Green Zone," Matt Damon plays an army officer trying to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq; in "She's Out of My League," a bombshell falls for a loser; and in "A Star is Born," Judy Garland's classic about fame gets a deluxe edition.