Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.

The Worst Film Ever

It is a performances centric movie

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

A really good werewolf entry. This film has an air of mystery that is appealing to me as well as a she-wolf. This one is about 2 years earlier than Universal's She-Wolf of London (1946) (which is also a good film).Nina Foch is Celeste, a princess of the gypsies. Celeste was born a werewolf like her mother before her. This story is about Celeste who hunts down those that find out about her.It's a little bit different than other werewolf films of the time era... even though there are gypsies and hunt for the werewolf. So this is not a film that is a repeat of other werewolf flicks - it is a story of it's own that is enjoyable to watch.7/10

I really liked this film as a kid and it's still fun to watch as a grownup.The idea of a female werewolf was a totally different horror concept in 1944 and Nina Foch was quite effective in her portrayal of the character. This movie boasts one of the most solid casts of any horror film of the 1940's with talented actors such as the wonderful Blanche Yurka, John Abbott, Fritz Leiber, Barton MacLane, and the delightfully ghoulish Milton Parson uplifting the proceedings. Osa Massen is eye catching if not a bit overwrought as the damsel in distress. The whole thing is shot down by Stephen Crane's inept attempt to play the leading man. He defines the cliché of the bland, boring, and ineffectual pretty boy and his performance is amateurish. Screenwriter Griffin Jay was a craftsman and quite dependable at providing screenplays for these hour long chillers and his script is economical with no frills. Director Henry Levin was an old pro at mysteries, drama, and adventure films but this was his only foray into the horror genre and he filmed it as more of a mystery and suspense piece the a true horror film. The special effects are minimal and were created more by the editor then the make up or camera crews. During WWII, the Hollywood Studio's were cranking out movies at a factory assembly line pace. Most films were produced with an eye towards keeping on schedule and within budget. The also kept the studio film makers busy and earning their paychecks. If they turned out to be well done, so much the better.Cry of the Werewolf was a film that was intended to be a neighborhood theater crowd pleaser that would be released and spend a few weeks making the rounds and move on.It's not a great film but it's a fun one to watch.

In the house where Marie Latour, a woman supposedly a werewolf, once lived a museum dedicated to the occult is set up. Latour had disappeared years before after killing her husband who discovered her secret. Years later the daughter of Latour returns and takes steps to make sure that her mother's grave and the secret temple are not desecrated. Confused and confusing supernatural tale seems to be trying to do Cat People one better but actually ends up several worse. Honestly this film is a bit of a mess story-wise. Watching this on DVD I even watched some scenes twice and had no idea what was going on. I honestly had no real idea what was going on and what the point of it all was. The problem is not so much the individual scenes but the complete lack of an idea about what the film is about. Yes the film has plot branches, but it doesn't have a central trunk, or at least a strong one to support all of the ideas. I'm not sure the film is really worth seeing. Pieces are, the opening of the film with a tour of the museum is fantastic. (Actually all of the bits are really good) The trouble is it never amounts to much beyond the pieces.

(There are Spoilers) Werewolf movie with a twist in that this time around the creature is a woman and there's, probably due to budget restrictions, no long and cumbersome stop motion sequences where the person slowly changes into a werewolf or visa versa.The story has to do with this group of Gypsies, the Troyincas, who immigrated to the United States from their ancient homes in far off Transylvania. The curator of New Orlean's Occult Latour Museum Dr. Charles Morris, Fritz Leiber, has discovered the Toryinca's secret ceremonies that has to do with their involvement in the occult sciences. This leads to Dr. Morris being murdered by Troyincan Matriarch Marie Latour, Nina Foch, who with the help of fellow Troyincan Jan(Ivan Triesault), who works as the janitor in the museum, hid Dr. Morris' body.It's when Dr. Morris' son Bob, Stephen Crane, shows up from New York that he suspects that his father, who's body had since been discovered, was not killed by a wild wolf, like the local police believe, but some kind of wolf-like man that his father uncovered in his investigation of Troyincan legend. Bob with the help of his father's assistant Elsa Chavret, Osa Massen, who just happens to have been born and raised in Transylvania finds Dr. Morris' burnt notes that if made legible will reveal the deadly secret that cost him his life.As expected the evil Marie Latour does everything to stop the truth from coming out about her and the background of her mother, Marie Sr, in that their descendant of werewolves who are descant to rule the Troyincan tribe both in Transylvania as well as in the United States. The film soon turns into a tug of war between the two leading ladies, Marie and Elsa, over the handsome and a bit confused, by the plot, Bob Morris.Marie seeing that she's getting nowhere with Elsa has her turned into a zombie like android muttering over and over to herself as well as out loud that she in fact was the one who murdered Dr. Morris. If that tactic on Marie's part was to turn Bob against Elas it fell flat on it's face. Bob as naive as he was wasn't convince that Elsa murdered his father since her fingerprints wren't found at the murder scene but, a it later turned out, Marie's were!***SPOILERS*** The very predictable ending has Marie turn into a werewolf for the very last time but this time around the police lead by Lt. Barry Lane, Barton MacLane, are ready for her. It took a lot of lead to put put the big bad wolf down in a wild and almost five minute long shootout but it was Lt. Lane's movie ending, that was supposed to tie all the loose ends together, statement that really got to me. With the killer werewolf, Marie Latour, lying dead and crumpled on the floor Lt. Lane, a non-believer in these kind of things, is totally awestruck at the sight of a wild animal-werewolf-changing into a human being! The fact is that the dead Maria Latour didn't start changing back from werewolf to human well after Lt. Lane made that statement!