Directed by George Waggner
My rating: 3 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Blu-ray, Universal)
Lon Chaney, Jr., returns to a large English estate after being away many years to live with his father. He falls in love with a local girl and while out on a date kills a wolf who attacks her friend near a gypsy camp. He's convinced by the gypsies that the wolf was actually a werewolf and that he now has the curse. He's not sure whether to believe them, but his nightly trips into the woods combined with more murders convinces him otherwise. The story actually leaves the door open for a non-supernatural interpretation that maybe Chaney's problems were all in his mind. The key witness to the last attack at the end who might have said otherwise says nothing about a werewolf. Anyway, Chaney's acting as usual leaves much to be desired, he simply lacks the charisma of his father, and as a result some of the love scenes early on are cringe inducing. Nonetheless, its fog enshrouded atmosphere, gypsy curses and transformation scenes have made it an iconic horror classic.
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