Linbeymusol Wonderful character development!

Senteur As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

Lucia Ayala It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

Quiet Muffin This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

jadflack-22130 This film when werewolf films are discussed gets a bad rap, and even though there are no " Special Effects", film is effective.It uses elements from two classic 1940's horror films " The Wolf Man" (1941) and " Cat People" (1942)and uses them well.Well made and acted apart from leading man Stephen Crane who acts like he is reading from cue cards.Overall this film is a nice surprise, i went into this not expecting much but thought it a good film, not that far behind the two classics already mentioned.

Richard Chatten The rather unlikely directoral debut of Henry Levin, 'Cry of the Werewolf' (a title not echoed by anything that actually happens in the film) is a quickie detective/horror hybrid that owes more to Val Lewton's films at RKO than Universal's Wolf Man.Borrowings abound from 'The Cat People', such as the click of high heels pursuing the hero below stairs at the funeral parlour. Lewton, however, would shrewdly have avoided showing us as much as the animal as we see here, which obviously isn't a genuine wolf; and John Abbott's vivid description on the soundtrack of the "master's mangled body, over him stood a terrible animal, with flaming dripping jaws" is completely undercut by the inoffensive-looking doggie woggie we see nonchalantly padding off in the accompanying flashback.The luxurious main set, lit with his usual aplomb by L.W.O'Connell, was probably recycled from an earlier production along with the main theme from Castelnuovo-Tedesco's score for 'The Return of the Vampire'. As a pair of matriarchal lycanthropes, the enjoyably malevolent-looking Blanche Yurka and Nina Foch wouldn't have looked out of place as members of the Palladists in 'The Seventh Victim', while - probably intentionally - far more electricity is generated between the remarkably youthful looking Miss Foch (who gets preposterously little screen time) and Osa Massen than between either of them and the incredibly boring hero Stephen Crane. Barton MacLane as a tough, no-nonsense detective carries himself as if marauding werewolves are all in a day's work for cops on the New Orleans beat.

Norm Vogel I enjoyed this film precisely due to the reasons that another reviewer DIDN"T! It was interesting to have a woman as a werewolf, there was no werewolf costume used, and there was an element of mystery in the proceedings.I enjoyed the Val Lewton-ish scene in the mortuary basement where the hero is being stalked by the werewolf!I myself am glad that the werewolf transformation scene was done in shadow (the Val Lewton touch), as the special effects of the time were far removed from today's slick computer-created animations. Anything other than the way it was done would've looked SILLY.A nifty, seldom-seen film! Norm(PS. Hull's makeup looks MUCH more "wolfish" than Cheney Jr's!).

bbowman-7 I can't believe these User Comments! Sheesh! This one has GOT to be one of the worst travesties and wastes of time in my book! What's up with Stephen Crane? Terrible actor! He's attacked by the werewolf and then stands up calmly, brushes himself off and says: "Yeah..I'm okay..." This is the best that Lana Turner could do? The whole piece of garbage looked like it was made for about twenty bucks. Nina Foch must have gone home a gotten drunk every night. The "wolf" was the only natural actor in the movie! Fritz Leiber's wooden performance brings new meaning to the expression "bad actor"! And Osa Massen? I couldn't get Inga from Young Frankenstein out of my mind!