Wow! Such a good movie.

If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

A lot more amusing than I thought it would be.

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

This is the first time in Hollywood where a werewolf is created by radiation! Yes, scientists in an attempt to cure a man, turn him into a werewolf. Unlike regular ones... well that would be telling. As usual with most werewolves, he does garner a lot of audience sympathy. After all, he didn't want to become a werewolf!

This really a good and solid "wolf man" or werewolf film. It's over looked quite a bit and really needs to come back out of the old spooky wood-works. It's a bit different than the traditional Wolf Man story created by Universal Pictures (starring Lon Chaney, Jr) which created the template for all werewolf films to come after. What is different about this one is the fact that the werewolf is created by scientist and not by being bitten by another werewolf. The moon does not have any affect on this wolf man - Duncan Marsh (Steven Ritch). Marsh is about as mild mannered as Larry Talbot and is just as easy to sympathize with but the two stories are quite different.YES I find this film good and do recommend it to fans of werewolves and wolf men. If you are able to find this one, it is worth watching.8.5/10

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.

This modest but nifty horror oldie from the mid-fifties brings forward a rather interesting and progressive premise, namely a wolf man/monster created by weird science instead of by gypsy curses, bites from rabid wolves or whatever else. A very confused and nervous man stumbles into a bar in the little town of Mountaincrest, California. A rather unfriendly encounter with a local quickly establishes that this man – Duncan Marsh – is a werewolf, but he suffers from amnesia and certainly doesn't have the intention to turn the town into a bloodbath. For you see, Duncan was made into what he is by two scientists, one crazy and rather evil and the other docile and cowardly. They took Duncan's unconscious body from a car accident and injected him with an experimental serum. Why? Apparently because the evil scientist guy firmly believes that all men will eventually kill each other and thus he started fabricating a serum that would make a selected few undefeatable. Why don't you try it on yourself then, you coward? How dare you call yourself a scientist! The hunt for the beast brings a lot of people – whether or not carrying torches – to Mountaincrest, including Duncan Marsh's poor wife and young son who still hope he can be rescued. Since Duncan is a very atypical werewolf, the film naturally also doesn't feature any full moons, silver bullets or supernatural stuff of any kind. He transforms whenever subjected to heavy emotions, like anger or anxiety. By consequence "The Werewolf" isn't a full-blood horror movie like the contemporary Hammer monster movies that were being released on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, but more of a family drama with a monstrous touch. Still, there's tension throughout the search for Duncan and the opening sequences are mysterious and atmospheric. The werewolf transformations as well as the facial make-up effects are surprisingly great for a low-budgeted 50's flick. Fred F. Sears directs solidly and provided the film with typically moody & ominous voice-over introduction. This guy, who also directed "Earth Vs the Flying Saucers" and "The Giant Claw" definitely died before his time