Review #228: The Wolf Man (1941)
This review was originally written in October 2022. Gabe's 100 Bucket List Horror Films Review #82: The Wolf Man (1941) The Wolf Man is a film about a man, Larry Talbot, who comes home to live with his wealthy father after going off to work halfway across the world. When he arrives there, after peeping on a neighbor, he learns of a local legend about werewolves. He then goes with the peeped neighbor and her friend to see a fortune teller, and the friend gets killed by a wolf. Larry fights and kills the wolf, getting bitten in the process- but the next morning, the dead "wolf" turns out to be a dead man, and Larry's bite has completely healed, leaving behind a pentagram-shaped scar. As the days go on, he keeps noticing strange blanks of time- and more bodies start piling up. Has he become a werewolf, or is he going crazy? I've never seen any of the Wolf Man movies, and this first one wasn't bad, exactly. (It wasn't good either, for the record.) It sets up a...