Seen this at the movies in 1956! I've listed this as my favorite werewolf movie of all times (I've seen a lot them) Takes place in the Big Bear Mountain area in Calif. Filmed in the winter time with snow still on the ground. Steven Ritch gives a good performance as the poor guy who gets treated by the wrong doctors after having a car accident. This can't really be considered a horror movie since it involves radiation etc. The special affects are fine and the werewolf makeup looks good (Looks like same makeup used in "The Return of the Vampire". A couple of great scary moments - The cave scene - The scene in the police station cell - My favorite is the scene at the beginning of the movie when the werewolf comes out of the alley and confronts a little old lady (The werewolf has his back to you but scares the heck out of the lady who is facing him)! No guts or gore in this movie. Harry Lauter, always liked him, plays the main deputy. I went up to the location where the movie's finale was shot (On the bridge)! I was 9 years old when I seen this movie at our local movie house and I have the movie at home now and try to watch it a couple of times a year! Watch it if you get the chance, you just might like it!! David N.

The Werewolf is a movie principally geared for baby boomers who like the old time horror movies. It will also provide good entertainment for teenage parties. Although The Werewolf is a horror movie, it is almost laughable. The movie was probably scary in the 1950 when it was made, but today's horror buffs won't find it very frightening. It is the typical cheesy horror movie for the 50s. Even the monster isn't that scary for today's standards. Good horror movies will stand the test of time like the House on Haunted Hill with Vincent Price or the 1968 Night of The Living Dead. This movie is best viewed late at night or in the middle of the afternoon, preferably a rainy one. Grab your popcorn and soda and pretend to be scared.

A wandering husband and father (Steven Ritch) suffers from amnesia following a car accident. It turns out that two doctors experimenting on preventing human mutations in the event of a nuclear disaster have injected him with a serum that periodically changes him into a wolf man. Much of the movie occurs in a small woodsy town, headed by sheriff Don Megowan (who played the humanized creature in THE CREATURE WALKS AMONG US), who hunts for the stranger in the snowy San Bernardino National Forest. Also in pursuit are the two doctors who started the mess, intent on killing their guinea pig before he can point a finger at them. There is a lot of stalking and hunting going on, but the sympathetic werewolf character seems much like Bruce Banner and The Hulk, usually transforming when distressed. The werewolf makeup is fair enough and the transformation process about par for the course for those days. Not an exceptional werewolf movie, but pretty good. **1/2 out of ****

Yeah, sure, this has been done and done, the dialog is trite, and many of the plot elements are contrived, I'll admit to that, but in 1956, this was still some pretty fresh stuff. Edgy and hard, this attempts to cash in on Universal's immense success with The Wolfman.Everyone seems to think that the current Hollywood trends are just that - current, but Hollywood has scarcely changed its tactics at all since the beginning. Even the 1930's Universal horrors were remakes of silent films, and Hollywood has done remakes, sequels, reboots, and revisionist films since the beginning. Sometimes they are actually superior to their originals and sometimes they need not bother being mentioned.This one falls somewhere in the middle in that it is nowhere near as good as the original and nothing as bad as some of the 1970's and 1980's attempts. This isn't Friday/Saturday night quality (more "rainy Sunday afternoon" fare), but it IS worth a watch.It rates a 7.8/10 on the B&W scale.It rates a 5.6/10 on the movie scale from...the Fiend :.