"In many a distant village, there exists the Legend of the Werewolf or Wolf Man, a legend of a strange mortal man with the hair and fangs of an unearthly beast... his hideous howl, a dirge of death!"
"Even a man who is pure at heart
And says his prayers by night
May become a wolf when the wolf-bane blooms/
And the moon is full and bright."
Upon first hearing these words, Larry Talbot (Lon Chaney) dismisses them as childish federal. After all, this is the 20th Century; how can a human being turn into a werewolf? Talbot soon learns how when he attempts to rescue Jenny Williams (Fay Helm) from a nocturnal attack by a wolf. Collapsing, Talbot discovers upon reviving that Jenny is dead-and, lying by her side, is not the body of a beast, but of a gypsy named Bela (Bela Lugosi). The son of fortune teller Maleva (Maria Ouspenskaya), Bela was a Lycanthrope, or "wolf man." And now that he has been bitten by Bela, Talbot is cursed to suffer the torments of the damned whenever the moon is full.
Join the crew as we talk about the latest film in our continuing series revisiting the classic Universal Monster Movies. Tonight we are talking about 1941's "The Wolfman", a film long anticipated by both of us we are happy to get into it.
We discuss the good, the bad, the ugly, and the iconic of the film, and then we discuss what we would do, if we were tasked with rewriting the film for a modern audience.
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