THE WOLF MAN
Reviewed by Steve Biodrowski
This 1941 film is widely considered to be one of the classics of the horror genre, because it introduced the world to one of the most famous movie monsters of all time: Lawrence Talbot (Lon Chaney, Jr.), an innocent man bitten by a wolf, who then succumbs to the curse of lycanthropy. After DRACULA and FRANKENSTEIN (both 1931), THE WOLF MAN probably ranks third in the pantheon of Universal Pictures’ famous movie monsters. Unfortunately, the film itself is a classic without being an actual masterpiece. It is a competent but uninspired, relying on solid studio production values (atmospheric sets and photography), plus its fine cast, to compensate for director George Waggner’s fairly pedestrian handling of the material.
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