Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueTwo scientists are involved in a car accident and find an unconscious man in the remains. They take him to their lab and inject him with a serum they have been working with. Sadly, the serum... Tout lireTwo scientists are involved in a car accident and find an unconscious man in the remains. They take him to their lab and inject him with a serum they have been working with. Sadly, the serum turns the man into a murderous werewolf.Two scientists are involved in a car accident and find an unconscious man in the remains. They take him to their lab and inject him with a serum they have been working with. Sadly, the serum turns the man into a murderous werewolf.
- Réalisation
- Scénario
- Casting principal
- Dr. Morgan Chambers
- (as George M. Lynn)
- Townsman
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- Cora
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As other reviewers have stated the performances,locale,direction and lighting are much better should be for a story about kooky scientists turning a luckless schmoe into a hirsute mutant but it also has a film noir element that mixes in quite nicely amidst the western pines of Big Bear lake.
Unlike some other viewers I didn't have a problem with the make up. It was meant to scare kids and it did. A year later you can see similarities in the design for Michael Landon's beastly side in I Was A Teenage Werewolf.
After the late sixties this exhausted it's run on local Chiller theaters and became very hard to find until now.
For a reasonable price you can get a gorgeous widescreen DVD transfer of The Werewolf along with other B movie faves The Giant Claw,Zombies Of Mora Tau and Creature With The Atom Brain.
The name of the set is Icons Of Horror Sam Katzman. It comes with some great extras but one of them produced by the same Three Stooges dept. at Columbia has enough vile Asian stereotypes to make A Fu-Man-Chu movie look P.C.
Take a trip back to matinée-ville with this and enjoy.
"The Werewolf" is a well acted, modest production that gets great mileage out of its Big Bear Lake locations, as well as fine atmosphere. It also puts a fresh spin on the standard werewolf story, taking it into the Atomic Age and giving us a lycanthrope born of not myth and legend but of scientific meddling. Of course, like many a good werewolf story, it's also a tragedy, with a main character who does earn our sympathies. People like Dr. Gilcrist (Ken Christy) and his niece Amy Standish (Joyce Holden) work at convincing the law, represented by Don Megowan as the sheriff and Harry Lauter as his deputy, to please try to take Ritch alive, if possible, knowing that he is a basically good man who cannot control what is happening to him.
The werewolf makeup by Clay Campbell is decent, the stock music appropriated serves its purpose, and there is some very crisp black & white photography by Edward Linden. The performances are fine, with Megowan as a sturdy, jut jawed (if not that expressive) hero; Eleanore Tanin and Kim Charney are appealing as Ritchs' distraught wife and son.
Good entertainment, with a striking finale done in long shot at a dam.
Seven out of 10.
Le saviez-vous
- AnecdotesWhen first released, this movie played as the bottom half of a double bill with Les soucoupes volantes attaquent (1956).
- GaffesJust as the werewolf grabs the meat bait from the rock and right before stepping in the trap, the shadow of a crew member passes over the werewolf's right side from behind the camera, on the left of the screen.
- Citations
Amy Standish: Jack, what are you trying to do, scare us half to death?
Sheriff Jack Haines: It wasn't an animal that killed Joe. The same goes for Clovey. It was a man.
Amy Standish: There were teeth marks of an animal on Joe's throat.
Dr. Jonas Gilcrist: She's right about the teeth marks.
Sheriff Jack Haines: I think we both are.
Dr. Jonas Gilcrist: Well, it had to be either animal OR man.
Amy Standish: There is a word for what you're saying, Jack.
Sheriff Jack Haines: Yeah, I went to school, Amy.
Dr. Jonas Gilcrist: Werewolf?
- ConnexionsFeatured in Weirdo with Wadman: The Werewolf (1963)
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Détails
- Date de sortie
- Pays d’origine
- Langue
- Aussi connu sous le nom de
- The Werewolf
- Lieux de tournage
- Société de production
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- Durée1 heure 19 minutes
- Couleur
- Rapport de forme
- 1.85 : 1