The Wolf Man Review

Review of The Wolf Man (1941) by screenqueeen: 👍 3/5

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Not sure if the main character, Larry, is supposed to be an inherently unlikable character here or if it's just another period-specific case of a stronger/weaker sex apologist behavior towards your protagonist. Given the deeply misled attitude towards Romani in this, I'm inclined to think that it's the latter.

I'm honestly surprised how many parallels there are between this and CAT PEOPLE, down to the camera panning right to left (left to right in CAT PEOPLE) across the ground showing a silent progression of Talbot's tranformation.

We still get one of the best transformation scenes in film before this sequence but it really does serve to show how unpredictable the wolf man is to Talbot's straight man, which is surprising based on the film's treatment of the "love interest" character in the final moments of the film.