My Favorite Movies

Nothing beats karloff as Frankenstein for sheer horror. the best horror movie ever!

A sequel even better than the original. A true all time classic!

Who cane ver forget the clmatic battle sequence between teh wolfman and frankenstein as the damn collapses and the flood waters rush in! Pulse pounding excitement!

A Classic! it no longer scarss me1 But i love to watch the acting.

The Hammer horror movie is better than the Lugosi classic- but its got wonderful Christopher Lee in it! and Peter Cushing!

The best horror movie of its time! Diabolical in its depth. But see the uncut version if you can!

I stumbled cross this free movie site and was able to watch the entire new version of the horror classic The Wolfman which is one of my favorite Universal horror pictures. Wolfman more than Frankenstein and Dracula before it was a whole creation of Universal studios - having no classic Novel to be used as a template. Much of popular werewolf lore was invented for the movie. The silver bullet, human transformation into a wolf under the fill moon, the verse that says - "Even a man who is pure in heart ...etc" all were coined for the movie- and that lore has been handed down in the movies now for almost 75 years.

This was the first re-filming of the Wolfman since 1941 and this movie was true to the old one and in some ways better. For one thing I very much like them setting i in 1890s England instead of a 1940s Hollywood backlot. They kept Lawence Talbot as the main character and very much expanded the sinister nature of the cursed Talbot family. There IS a murderous family secret, where there was none before and that plays very well in the bleak and dreary manor house and the menancing foggy countryside around Talbot manor.

And there there are the required frightened gypsiesm and angry mobs of townsmen hunting a mysterious beast that terrifying the countryside and cutting a huge swath of destruction and death in rural Dartmoor. Our hero hunts it, gets bitten while killing it and then his real troubles begin. ..

The movie takes a very entertaining turn when Talbot is captured in the woods at night, and consigned to a London asylum for the insane - becuse lycanthropy is believed to be a mental disorder- not a gypsie curse. How Talbot breaks out and terrorizes Victorian London is one of the highlights of the film- as well as nod to the precursor of the Wolfman move- 1935's Werewolf of London.

All in all the movie was much scarier and more mood evoking than the orginal. The CGI advancements guaranteed the wolf transformations were superior to the old version and it was a very entertaining film. I enjoyed it and I will buy it when it comes out on DVD. I will always love the Lon Chaney Jr. orginal- but this new remake could well find its way into my favorite horror movie list after I watch it a few more times!

I watched it for free here:
http://www.free-tv-video-online.info/
and here's movie review of it here:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0780653/