His older brother has died, and as he is the second son he will now inherit everything–money, title, family home, etc. So the film starts out with Lon Chaney Jr. Unlike modern movies where the person can control it, change at will, etc in the original when the man transformed into a wolf he literally transformed into becoming a beast and losing all his humanistic thought, reasoning, etc. Here is a wonderful man pure of heart, who has the unfortunate luck of being bitten by a werewolf and can’t do anything to stop it. Now I love this movie and story but it is soooo sad as well. Unlike other films, The Wolf Man is the only Universal monster to be played by the same actor in all his 1940s film appearances Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943), House of Frankenstein (1944), House of Dracula (1945), and Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948).
was just superb! Lon Chaney Jr, was the son of the famous Lon Chaney (who I talk about in my Phantom of the Opera post) and interestingly the set that was used to film this movie was the same used for The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923) which starred Lon Chaney Jr.’s father, Lon Chaney. And although I love that man I can’t imagine this film being as amazing with him as the title role. So the film was originally written for Boris Karloff, but he turned it down. All the later depictions such as: The Howling, An American Werewolf in London, I Was a Teenage Werewolf, Van Helsing, The Wolfman (2010), etc. This was the second werewolf horror film to be made and become the most famous. So this isn’t the first werewolf film, as that was The Werewolf of London, which actually did rather poorly in theaters. Isn’t that amazing! Like The Mummy and The Creature from the Black Lagoon this film isn’t based on a book or any specific resource, which allowed the writers a lot of leeway in their work and creations. These are all original concepts created by writer Curt Siodmak. It is also a member of Universal’s Classic Monster Movie Collection, its buddies being The Phantom of the Opera, Frankenstein, The Bride of Frankenstein, The Mummy, Dracula, The Creature from the Black Lagoon, etc. And this post means that I have finally, finally finished the list I set out to complete two years ago.īut what really makes this a spectacular film is that many of the modern myths of werewolves were originated in this film: such as a person becoming a werewolf through a bite the only way to kill a werewolf is with a silver bullet and changing into one during a full moon.
This is such an amazing film as the story is excellent, the acting superb (Lon Chaney Jr. “Even a man who is pure in heart and says his prayers by night, may become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms and the autumn moon is bright.”
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