Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Gary The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

Walter Sloane Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

Michael_Elliott Cry of the Werewolf (1944) * 1/2 (out of 4) A gypsy woman is cursed by being a werewolf in this Columbia film. After five minutes I had to pause this film so that I could pass out candy and I must say that this was a lot more fun (and scary) than watching this film, which is incredibly dull and it's quite shocking that this would come from a major studio. The werewolf transformation scenes are laughable and the story seems to be about everything except for the actual werewolf. The cast is extremely dull and lifeless and the direction isn't any better. I had seen this years ago but forgot just about everything so that's why I watched it again and I've got the feeling that I'll have forgotten the movie by morning. Check out The Undying Monster instead.

Scarecrow-88 I was a bit disappointed with this horror tale as Columbia Pictures decided to take a stab at their own werewolf flick as Nina Foch stars as a gypsy high Priestess, Celeste, whose mother was a lycanthrope passing the affliction to her. She kills a museum owner who has been delving into Foch's mother's history. The man's scientist son, Bob(Stephen Crane) and future Transylvanian wife, Elsa(Osa Massen) decide to follow a few leads through some burnt written words that his late father was penning for a forthcoming novel to be published about the infamous Marie La Tour and her werewolf lineage. The great Barton MacLane stars as Lt. Barry Lane, on the case to discover who murdered Bob's father. While the film certainly has that wonderfully polished B&W noirish look Columbia Pictures is known for, there aren't enough juicy bits with the werewolf that I desired, but Foch is striking in the lead role. No werewolf transformations except some shadow changes on the wall with Foch turning to a regular wolf. The film is more about the search for the killer of the museum curator, with Foch's Celeste using her mind-control black magic powers to persuade Bob and Elsa off her tracks. Too short with a conclusion that I found rather hastily finished. But, good cast and production values helps significantly. The idea of a woman werewolf certainly is interesting and I wish this film could've established that a bit more. Yeah, a woman in a werewolf costume would've definitely satisfied me, to tell you the truth.

Neil Doyle CRY OF THE WEREWOLF is on the level of an Ed Wood film, a surprisingly bad little programmer from Columbia with NINA FOCH heading the cast. Her transition from human to werewolf is so poorly staged with shadows that it's laughable.The script is dull, full of exposition for the first half-hour, and populated by some hardly competent actors. Worst of all is STEPHEN CRANE (he was Lana Turner's husband--twice), whose performance has to rank among the worst in recent memory for one who has been watching Halloween films on TCM. OSA MASSEN isn't much better but at least tries to convey her part with more feeling than Crane is able to muster.Nina Foch plays Marie LaTour, a woman in a travelling gypsy wagon who is actually a werewolf, killing to keep her secret from others. Maybe someone like Val Lewton could have pulled this thing together, but Henry Levin's direction is no help at all and the script is a mess.Summing up: A trite tale, poorly written and acted, not worth your time and a vehicle certainly unworthy of Miss Foch's talent. Trivia: Inexplicably, the two best performances in the film are uncredited--JOHN ABBOTT as Peter and FRITZ LEIBER as Dr. Morris.

lorenellroy I may possibly have seen worse werewolf movies than this but if so have mercifully expunged them from my memory bank The plot while perfunctory is adequate-a Romany princess is descended from Marie Laveau,and like her late mother can turn herself into a wolf when required.This she deems is a skill she needs when a team from the local museum discover the whereabouts of Ms Laveau's tomb which the Romanies decree must be kept secret.Thus she begins to work her way through the team by metamporphosing into a wolf The budget does not extend to on-screen transformations but the budget is not the problem.Val Lewton never had much in the way of money to spend when creating masterpieces like The Cat People,The Leopard Man or Bedlam.What he did have was imagination and flair -qualities lacking in this trudge through cliche after cliche Badly acted and directed and made by people with no feel or enthusiasm for the horror genreAvoid.