BoardChiri Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

ShangLuda Admirable film.

BelSports This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Paynbob It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

avidid Seen this at the movies in 1956! I've listed this as my favorite werewolf movie of all times (I've seen a lot them) Takes place in the Big Bear Mountain area in Calif. Filmed in the winter time with snow still on the ground. Steven Ritch gives a good performance as the poor guy who gets treated by the wrong doctors after having a car accident. This can't really be considered a horror movie since it involves radiation etc. The special affects are fine and the werewolf makeup looks good (Looks like same makeup used in "The Return of the Vampire". A couple of great scary moments - The cave scene - The scene in the police station cell - My favorite is the scene at the beginning of the movie when the werewolf comes out of the alley and confronts a little old lady (The werewolf has his back to you but scares the heck out of the lady who is facing him)! No guts or gore in this movie. Harry Lauter, always liked him, plays the main deputy. I went up to the location where the movie's finale was shot (On the bridge)! I was 9 years old when I seen this movie at our local movie house and I have the movie at home now and try to watch it a couple of times a year! Watch it if you get the chance, you just might like it!! David N.

lemon_magic This genuinely interesting and well made black-and-white horror film was a pleasant surprise, given the director and producer previously gave us "The Giant Claw" (good character scenes, ludicrous monster effects) and "Earth Vs. The Flying Saucers" (good special effects by Harryhausen, wooden, clunky and low energy "live" scenes").The "buzz" on this one is supposed to be that this was the first "scientific" werewolf on film, but I recall George Zuckoff starring in a PRC poverty row production called "Mad Monster" which was very similar in story and setting. It's OK, though - "Mad Monster" was deservedly forgotten, while this effort is considerably more fun to watch.Played with some depth and sympathy by all the main actors and some well lit and shot B&W photographu,this little parable has a nice haunting ending and is unusual in that the victim gets to see his family before meeting his fate.I liked it a lot. It seems that Sam Katzman may have been less of a hack than I previously though.

Chuck1949 I can remember seeing this on a double bill with Earth vs the Fling Saucers at a matinée back in the mid fifties, both creeped me out (for different reasons)and it wasn't until; years later that I realized the same man, Fred F. Sears, had directed both. What a wonderful eye he had for action, awe, horror and pathos as all of these were in display on the double bill. "Flying Saucers" had been covered a zillion times but The Werewolf is a true gem with solid acting, a fairly believable script and some decent chills. It also serves as an analogy for the modern man being caught up in circumstances he can neither escape nor fully comprehend. The scenes in the mine shaft and jail cell alone are worth the price of admission. I disagree vehemently, however, with those writers who state that there's a gay subtext running throughout the film. Sorry all, the greatest fear of the fifties was of an unknown future created by the power of the atom, not supposed homosexual scientists destroying the American family.

lastliberal Supposedly unreleased on VHS or DVD until now, as part of a compilation, this is a rare werewolf film that almost looks like a Western due to its location.Fred Sears, whose Scifi/horror resume includes Earth vs. the Flying Saucers and The Giant Claw, directs a cast that includes cowboy Steven Ritch ("The Lone Ranger", "Broken Arrow", "The Rifleman", and many more), Don Megowan (The Creature Walks Among Us, and lots of Westerns), and "Miss Southern California" of 1949, Joyce Holden.Makeup and transformation were really good.This is one that should be required viewing for wolfman fans.