O2D My entire life I thought a werewolf was basically a very hairy man.Then I saw Werewolf Of Washington and learned that some werewolves look like regular wolves.In the Washington movie, a regular looking one even created a human looking one.Someone needs to make global werewolf rules.This movie opens with a dog that has a rubber band around the top part of its mouth.That's our angry werewolf.So anyway, this movie is not very good.The acting is terrible, the writing is worse and the plot doesn't make much sense.It's another hour long movie with little dialogue, no action and no reason to watch.It's about a female werewolf who doesn't want her family history revealed but it's painfully hard to watch and I have already forgotten much of it.Don't waste your time with this flick.
Rainey Dawn A really good werewolf entry. This film has an air of mystery that is appealing to me as well as a she-wolf. This one is about 2 years earlier than Universal's She-Wolf of London (1946) (which is also a good film).Nina Foch is Celeste, a princess of the gypsies. Celeste was born a werewolf like her mother before her. This story is about Celeste who hunts down those that find out about her.It's a little bit different than other werewolf films of the time era... even though there are gypsies and hunt for the werewolf. So this is not a film that is a repeat of other werewolf flicks - it is a story of it's own that is enjoyable to watch.7/10
dbborroughs In the house where Marie Latour, a woman supposedly a werewolf, once lived a museum dedicated to the occult is set up. Latour had disappeared years before after killing her husband who discovered her secret. Years later the daughter of Latour returns and takes steps to make sure that her mother's grave and the secret temple are not desecrated. Confused and confusing supernatural tale seems to be trying to do Cat People one better but actually ends up several worse. Honestly this film is a bit of a mess story-wise. Watching this on DVD I even watched some scenes twice and had no idea what was going on. I honestly had no real idea what was going on and what the point of it all was. The problem is not so much the individual scenes but the complete lack of an idea about what the film is about. Yes the film has plot branches, but it doesn't have a central trunk, or at least a strong one to support all of the ideas. I'm not sure the film is really worth seeing. Pieces are, the opening of the film with a tour of the museum is fantastic. (Actually all of the bits are really good) The trouble is it never amounts to much beyond the pieces.
sol (There are Spoilers) Werewolf movie with a twist in that this time around the creature is a woman and there's, probably due to budget restrictions, no long and cumbersome stop motion sequences where the person slowly changes into a werewolf or visa versa.The story has to do with this group of Gypsies, the Troyincas, who immigrated to the United States from their ancient homes in far off Transylvania. The curator of New Orlean's Occult Latour Museum Dr. Charles Morris, Fritz Leiber, has discovered the Toryinca's secret ceremonies that has to do with their involvement in the occult sciences. This leads to Dr. Morris being murdered by Troyincan Matriarch Marie Latour, Nina Foch, who with the help of fellow Troyincan Jan(Ivan Triesault), who works as the janitor in the museum, hid Dr. Morris' body.It's when Dr. Morris' son Bob, Stephen Crane, shows up from New York that he suspects that his father, who's body had since been discovered, was not killed by a wild wolf, like the local police believe, but some kind of wolf-like man that his father uncovered in his investigation of Troyincan legend. Bob with the help of his father's assistant Elsa Chavret, Osa Massen, who just happens to have been born and raised in Transylvania finds Dr. Morris' burnt notes that if made legible will reveal the deadly secret that cost him his life.As expected the evil Marie Latour does everything to stop the truth from coming out about her and the background of her mother, Marie Sr, in that their descendant of werewolves who are descant to rule the Troyincan tribe both in Transylvania as well as in the United States. The film soon turns into a tug of war between the two leading ladies, Marie and Elsa, over the handsome and a bit confused, by the plot, Bob Morris.Marie seeing that she's getting nowhere with Elsa has her turned into a zombie like android muttering over and over to herself as well as out loud that she in fact was the one who murdered Dr. Morris. If that tactic on Marie's part was to turn Bob against Elas it fell flat on it's face. Bob as naive as he was wasn't convince that Elsa murdered his father since her fingerprints wren't found at the murder scene but, a it later turned out, Marie's were!***SPOILERS*** The very predictable ending has Marie turn into a werewolf for the very last time but this time around the police lead by Lt. Barry Lane, Barton MacLane, are ready for her. It took a lot of lead to put put the big bad wolf down in a wild and almost five minute long shootout but it was Lt. Lane's movie ending, that was supposed to tie all the loose ends together, statement that really got to me. With the killer werewolf, Marie Latour, lying dead and crumpled on the floor Lt. Lane, a non-believer in these kind of things, is totally awestruck at the sight of a wild animal-werewolf-changing into a human being! The fact is that the dead Maria Latour didn't start changing back from werewolf to human well after Lt. Lane made that statement!
