Wordiezett So much average
CommentsXp Best movie ever!
Nayan Gough A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.
Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.
Rainey Dawn This movie is NOTHING like Universal's "Wolf Man" starring Lon Chaney, Jr. So if you are looking for something similar to the Universal class then this film is not for you. The ONLY similarity between this film and Universal's classic is the fact both werewolves appear to have hypertrichosis with a wild wolf instinct - that's it. The stories are quite different. The wolfman Petro's story is NOTHING like Larry Talbot's story."Mad Monster" is about a scientist that found a way to inject his subject with a serum that turns him into a werewolf. He sends the werewolf Petro to kill for him as revenge.Honestly "Mad Monster" is not a horrible werewolf film - it's a must see if you do like werewolves just to say 'I've seen that werewolf film' lol. Again, it's NOTHING like Universal's "Wolf Man" - but it's a totally different story all together.5.5/10
kai ringler I really enjoyed this movie,, not quite sure why but I just did. A scientist is badly disgraced by his employers because his theories and experiments are not conventional, so abruptly he is dismissed from the company,, he decides to carry on his work in a dilapidated mansion that is out of sight, he uses his gardener as a guinea pig for all of his experiments, the experiment sort of a blood transfusion, to turn the gardener into a werewolf.. the scientist's daughter becomes suspicious of her father,, and her boyfriend happens to be a reporter, so she tells him what she thinks her father is up to ,, and the reporter starts to snoop around and gather up some information,, meanwhile our mad scientist is making plans for a serum to use against his former employers to get revenge on them for dismissing him from the company,, very decent "b" movie.
Bezenby You've got to love a film that opens with a mad scientist injecting a big lummox full of a concoction of wolf's blood and a catalyst, the guy transforming into a werewolf, and then the scientist having an argument with a bunch of guys who aren't really there, and all in the name of turning the US Army into a bunch of killer werewolves in order to win World War 2. That's a film that truly endears a fella pretty much straight away.Our mad scientist is living in disgrace after being publicly humiliated by his peers, and the lummox is his gardener, a gentle giant called Petro (at least he's gentle when not rampaging around the place as a werewolf). The scientist's daughter also lives with them, in a house out in a swamp somewhere, and her boyfriend is a reporter back in the city. Get this though, when a young girl is killed by the werewolf, the report comes to the conclusion that it must have been a forgotten race of prehistoric lizards that walk on two legs what done it. You've got to love this film.So, you've got the reporter snooping around with gun toting locals, the mad scientist preparing his revenge on his peers with his werewolf guy, and the werewolf himself starting to transform of his own accord. It's all good, right? It helps that George Zucco plays the scientist as a cold heartless fiend, complete with maniacal laugh. Check out the scene where he learns a child has been killed – he doesn't give a crap! He just wants his ex-mates dead, and to be honest I'm not sure he thought out the rest of his plan.The sympathetic element comes from Petro the gardener, who admits he doesn't have the 'book learning' to understand why he's being injected with something or other (and the scientist doesn't mind slapping or whipping him either – that's gratitude). Also, the low budget shows when the swamp scenes come around. It looks like they had a tiny stage to work with and try to film the same place from many angles. That said, it just adds to the general goofiness of the film. Mad Monster is pure, daft werewolf action from start to finish, thanks to the plentiful werewolf scenes and Zucco's cold as ice performance.
Prichards12345 George Zucco was a fine actor, often playing gimlet-eyed villains with a lascivious intensity. However even he couldn't save this dull and flat-footed B flick.Zucco plays the usual mad scientist, Dr. Lorenzo Cameron, who believes that wolf's blood, injected into humans, can create an invincible army of wolf men who can win the World War II (go figure!) Experimenting on Pedro the handyman(Glenn Strange) Zucco creates a werewolf that looks rather like the ones Dave Allen used to play in his comedy sketches! Pedro is obviously based on Lennie from Of Mice And Men, and you almost keep expecting him to say "Duh, okay, George!" There's one startling moment when the werewolf kills a child by reaching in through the window and grabbing it, but for the most part this is a routine and pedestrian - very pedestrian - 77 minute tread through all the old clichés that are done far better in other movies.We also get the revenge motif from the Devil Bat worked in, in itself a borrowing from Son Of Frankenstein!Zucco is wasted, and you only have to see him in films such as Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes, The Mummy's Hand and Dr. Renault's Secret to see how wasted. A few atmospheric swamp scenes are all it has to offer, really. And the scene where Zucco demonstrates his wolf-man technique to those who doubted him (again shades of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde) is unintentionally hilarious.Not one of the better 40s B movies.
