Karry Best movie of this year hands down!

NekoHomey Purely Joyful Movie!

AshUnow This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Dana An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

azathothpwiggins Larry Talbot (Lon Chaney Jr.) arrives at his ancestral castle, falls in love via telescope, and buys a new walking stick. Yep, everything is wonderful! Uh oh! Gypsies roll into town, and the mysterious Maleva (Maria Ouspenskaya) and her son, Bela (Bela Lugosi) have the inside track on the spirit world! If that's not bad enough, Bela's got a terrible secret that plays right into an old Talbot family curse! Soon enough, someone is killed and Larry starts getting hairy! THE WOLF MAN is, of course, a classic horror / monster film. It's also quite an enjoyable ball of -lupine- yarn. This movie still has that unique Universal look and atmosphere, which started to fade into the realm of "monsters-on-the-loose" cheeeze, as the 1940's wore on. Claude Rains is believable as Sir John Talbot, whose love for his son is tested to the utmost. Ralph Belamy (ROSEMARY'S BABY) and Evelyn Ankers (SON OF DRACULA) are also quite good in their roles. A Halloween staple...

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.

John austin Lon Chaney Jr. finally moved out of his father's shadow with his career role as Lawrence Talbot in the Wolf Man. I've always complained that most werewolf movies are notoriously lousy, but this one comes in at the top of a sub genre that's usually clouded with confusion and mediocrity. It's one of the greats from Universal's Golden Age of Horror.Chaney is perfect as the tormented and twisted Larry Talbot who gets bitten by a wolf after he comes home to his father's (Claude Rains) English estate. He soon finds out he's been touched by the supernatural and spends the rest of the movie struggling against the demon that takes him over at every full moon. This movie is full of castles, fog shrouded moors everything that's come to symbolize this type of movie. It's also got one of the most solid supporting casts you'll see in any type of movie- Claude Rains, Patrick Knowles, Ralph Bellamy, Bela Lugosi, Maria Ouspenskaya, and the scream queen- Evelyn Ankers. Jack Pierce revolutionized special effects work with his werewolf transformation sequences. As they say, it's been often imitated but never duplicated.

Leofwine_draca For a start, this has to be one of the most unconvincing portrayals of a location that I've ever seen. The film is supposedly set in Wales, but the scenery looks nothing like the Wales I've seen, instead more of a Universal studio methinks. Plus, aside from a couple of cast members, everybody seems to have an American accent, including the lead! (this is explained away in a lame excuse that he's been away in America for 18 years... yeah, right). I guess Universal just didn't care. We're back into the familiar feeling of a Universal classic once again, and being ten years on from Dracula this looks and feels a lot more polished. It also has a lot more incident and action than in some other classic horror flicks and the running time literally flies by, indeed this film feels like it's too short. Lon Chaney Jr. appears in his most-remembered role, creating a monster which would stay with him the rest of his life. Okay, so Chaney never was much of an actor - wooden is putting it mildly - but he conveys torment and upset pretty well. Jack Pierce's makeup once again creates an unforgettable monster, an image which is still recognisable to the modern generation.A few familiar faces fill out supporting roles, including Claude Rains as Chaney's supposed father. The trouble is, the two actors couldn't look less alike, meaning that you have to suspend disbelief in order to swallow this relationship. Bela Lugosi, imaginatively playing a character called Bela, also turns up in a brief eyebrow-raising cameo and is dispatched all too quickly - a real shame. I have to admit that Evelyn Ankers is a pretty charismatic screaming heroine, though. All of the werewolf folklore is present and correct here. The film is also quite brutal with people being beaten and killed just off screen. The only trouble, as I mentioned above, is that the film is far too short and I would have liked to see Chaney go on a werewolf rampage, murdering as many people as possible! Other than this, THE WOLF MAN is a well made and fully enjoyable classic which should be seen by any respectable horror buff.