Rating: Approved | Runtime: 70 minutes
Release Date: December 12th, 1941 (USA)
Studio: Universal Pictures
Director(s): George Waggner
Writer(s): Curt Siodmak

Why does everyone insist that I’m confused?

Having the portrait of Larry’s late older brother just be a portrait of Lon Chaney is quite the choice. Sir John goes on and on about the Talbot family residing here for generations and yet no one recognizes his son upon returning after eighteen years despite him being the spitting image of the son they all knew?

The script does a great job instilling the idea that a werewolf is merely the delusion of an unstable soul trying to give form to its sudden, uncontrollable violence. This potential explanation is rendered naive considering the film shows the audience werewolves are real with the first murder, but I like the attempt at metaphorical duality anyway.

Good performances. Quickly paced with a barebones plot harboring zero excess. And a quality tragic ending wherein the evidence will still prove insufficient in making people believe the impossible is possible.

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Lon Chaney Jr. and Evelyn Ankers in THE WOLF MAN.