Before werewolves were sexy and CGI ruled the night, Neil Marshall’s Dog Soldiers tore onto the screen with a snarling blend of blood, guts, and pitch-black humour. Set deep in the Scottish Highlands and drenched in practical effects, this cult horror-action hybrid pits a squad of unlucky British soldiers against a pack of terrifying beasts—and…
Tag: The Wolf Man
An American Werewolf in London (1981) – Review
In 1981 fur would literally fly as we were treated to a pair of werewolf movies taking the genre in two distinct directions; with Joe Dante’s The Howling turning the wolf-man tale into a subtle satire of the self-help movement of the 70s, while in An American Werewolf in London, John Landis managed to be…
Jungle Woman (1944) – Review
In this second of the Cheela, the Ape Woman series, Universal Pictures decided that rather than trying to recapture the success of The Wolf Man they would, instead, attempt to mimic the success of Val Lewton’s Cat People, unfortunately, this sequel fails on almost every level and being a rip-off of a much better film…
She-Wolf of London (1946) – Review
After Henry Hull’s turn as a lycanthrope in Werewolf of London had resulted in a box office disappointment it was Lon Chaney’s The Wolf Man that became Universal Pictures‘s default creature of fur and fangs, but in 1946 the studio released a werewolf movie that starred June Lockhart as a woman who believes that she…
House of Frankenstein (1944) – Review
When the idea of pairing various Universal Monsters together proved successful with Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man the people at Universal Pictures put this formula into high gear and thus the “Monster Rallies” would become both the backbone of the series and also its downfall as the comedy team of Abbott and Costello would eventually…