Karry Best movie of this year hands down!

Solidrariol Am I Missing Something?

Peereddi I was totally surprised at how great this film.You could feel your paranoia rise as the film went on and as you gradually learned the details of the real situation.

BelSports This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

merelyaninnuendo The Wolf ManUnlike the previous Dark Universal features, its not witty or gripping in either aspects of it; execution and writing, for this wafer thin plot is not even worth the 70 minute of its runtime. The writing is the main factor, why this fails to live up to its predecessors legacy and why it fails on delivering any satisfactory material. George Wagner is definitely not in its A game which result into this overlong repetitive slog which should have been an entertaining experience. Lon Chaney Jr. in the centre of it fails to pull off this horror show despite of being supported by a great cast. The Wolf Man is something that should have been a 15 minute introduction of the amazing horror tale and is unfortunately carried out to be an hour long feature.

meddlecore Despite Universal's release of Stuart Walker's Werewolf Of London six years earlier, George Waggner's The Wolf Man would become Hollywood's archetypal werewolf film.It stars Lon Chaney, who gets bitten and turned into a into a wolf man by a gypsy fortune teller/werewolf.He beats the wolf to death with his silver cane- only to find out it was actually a man, when he wakes up in the morning.Really, he just wanted to woo the local jeweller's daughter. Now, he finds himself stricken with an ancient curse.And he's turning into a full blown werewolf.He promptly kills the gravedigger, and is followed back to his home by the police- where he tries to cover up his tracks.But he fears he might attack the woman he has eyes for...and he's starting to question everything he has ever believed.Nonetheless, he succumbs to the curse of the werewolf, and gets his comeuppance (which I personally think he deserves, because he's kind of a douche).This is a pretty solid, straight forward, film. And it sets a standard for what would become one of today's most well known sub-genres of horror.The werewolf makeup is pretty sweet...and that last transformation from werewolf back to human is pretty awesome! Though, a bit dated, this is still a classic film that needs to be seen.Definitely check it out.6.5 out of 10.

Ross622 George Waggner's "The Wolf Man" isn't the classic horror movie that I honestly expected it to be, but for the most part it does work as a horror movie even though it didn't scare me very much. Lon Chaney Jr. stars as Larry Talbot a British man who comes back from America to Wales after his brother dies in order to spend more time with his father John Talbot (Claude Rains) and during that time his father shows him the new telescope that he got and decides to test it out himself and also during that period when he is testing out the telescope he sees a young blond haired girl named Gwen Conliffe (Evelyn Ankers) and later they go for a walk in the night time together with Gwen's friend Jenny (Fay Helm) to a local gypsy fortune teller in the woods named Bela (Bela Lugosi) who sees her and then sees a suspicious star on her hand and tells her to run away from him as fast as possible because in this film according to legend that in the night time whenever you see a star on someone's hand and you are about to turn into a werewolf the person that you see the star on will become their next victim, and thus Bela turns into a werewolf kills Jenny, and Larry tries to save her by killing him with his cane that he had gotten from the antique shop with a silver handle that kills him but not without getting bitten by him. Then the next night is Bela's funeral, and then we meet Bela's mother Maleva (Maria Ouspenskaya, who was six years Lugosi's senior in real life) who tells Talbot about the legends and he thinks that she is joking and completely dismisses her claims until he turns into a werewolf himself and kills a gravedigger, and the next night almost kills both Gwen and his father who doesn't believe the legends either until he finds out that the werewolf he killed was his own son. The whole movie works as a horror thriller all the way until the ending which was totally ridiculous and should have been altered and rewritten. During that time in Hollywood history the Academy didn't take horror movies about monsters very seriously and considered them devoid of art and of no considerable interest to them. The performances are very good especially with standout work from Chaney, Rains, Ankers, Lugosi, and Ouspenskaya, the screenplay by Curt Siodmak could have been better but was still very good, as well as George Waggner's direction. However the movie doesn't rank among some true horror classics like "Psycho" (1960), "Carrie" (1976), "The Shining" (1980), "Misery" (1990), and "The Silence of the Lambs" (1991), and is Oscar material in terms of music, acting, and cinematography, but even though it is a good movie it isn't a must see film even though I highly recommend it on the reasons that were previously stated.

SnoopyStyle Larry Talbot (Lon Chaney Jr.) returns to the family Talbot Castle after his brother's death. He is greeted by his father John (Claude Rains). He is taken with village girl Gwen Conliffe. Jenny Williams joins Larry and Gwen as they visit the gypsy camp. The old woman Maleva and her son Bela (Bela Lugosi) tell fortunes. Bela turns into a wolf and kills Jenny. Larry coming to her aid is injured in the struggle.This is a classic Hollywood monster. They created the look. It's a compelling creation. The movie itself is fine with good construction and solid actors. This is a milepost in the genre of monster horror.