George Waggner
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An American Werewolf in London (1981)
Directed by John Landis
influenced by The Wolf Man (1941)
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For atmosphere and effect, An American Werewolf in London doesn't match the classic The Wolf Man, but it's the earlier film's equal in many other areas.
I know him primarily as a horror-movie fan who, I'm told, reads some of the genre magazines I've written for, which makes it not surprising to find assorted clips from The Old Dark House and The Wolf Man and House of Frankenstein in his movie.
Zombie seems to know his horror films -- particularly "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" and the Universal classics of the 1940s and 1950s, such as "The Wolf Man" and "Creature From the Black Lagoon" -- but he certainly didn't have a clue how to make one.
Now with The Wolfman, which is the official Universal Pictures remake of The Wolf Man (1941), director Joe Johnston and screenwriters Andrew Kevin Walker and David Self have attempted to retain some of that old-time spooky atmosphere and character development.
If you follow movie news, you know this beauty has been delayed and tweaked for months by its studio, Universal, which allowed its 1941 classic film of the same name (sort of--it was called “The Wolf Man” then) to be bastardized by director Joe Johnston, the man responsible for such crowd-pleasures as “Jumanji” and the forever-memorable “Honey, I Shrunk the Kids.”
Although drawn primarily from George Waggner’s The Wolf Man (1941), which begat Lon Chaney Jr.’s career as a monster star par excellence (he would go on to play virtually every monster in the Universal catalog over the next decade), it also draws background from the oft-forgotten Werewolf of London (1936), which helped establish the on-screen lore of lycanthropy.
Written by Andrew Kevin Walker and David Self, based on the 1941 film “The Wolf Man,” written by Curt Siodmak.
Joe Johnston sets his remake of the 1941 Lon Chaney Jr. classic The Wolf Man in Victorian England, a fitting backdrop for a Jekyll and Hyde–esque tale of men battling beasts within.
("The way you walked was thorny," indeed -- to quote Maria Ouspenskaya in 1941's "The Wolf Man.")
Ginger Snaps owes a great debt to horror traditions-not so much to George Waggner's original werewolf picture, The Wolf Man, as to director Jacques Tourneur's and producer Val Lewton's Cat People and especially the more-explicit Paul Schrader remake of that film.
“Dracula Untold” has about as much to do with Bela Lugosi’s “Dracula” as “The Wolf of Wall Street” does with “The Wolf Man.”
Sam’s posters include Creature from the Black Lagoon, Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and The Wolf Man.
Papa Rabbit opens the first of many portals, the next room dissolves into a Hollywood mansion and in wanders Grace Zabriskie keyed up to Maria Ouspenskaya in The Wolf Man.
Over in Wellington, New Zealand, young Lionel (Timothy Balme) has female troubles, torn between the under-my-thumb influence of overbearing Mum (Elizabeth Moody), poster girl of the prim-and-proper school, with all the hypocrisy that entails, and his instant attraction to exotic Paquita Maria Sanchez (Diana Penalver), the down-market daughter of a local grocer, whose grandmother is the type of fortunetelling old Gypsy woman you'd find in just about any version of The Wolf Man.
They came up with a plan for a shared "Dark Universe" that would include a Bride of Frankenstein remake starring Angelina Jolie, an updated Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde featuring Russell Crowe, Javier Bardem as Frankenstein's monster, and remakes of The Wolf Man, Creature From the Black Lagoon and more.
DP Shelly Johnson, no stranger to big-budget spectacle ( Captain America ; The Wolf Man ) seems best served in the cramped confines of the boat.
While the studio's other series feature the man-as-god morality plays of Victor Frankenstein or the baleful, cursed legacy of poor Larry Talbot -- The Wolf Man -- or even the scaly, lovestruck aquatics of The Creature From the Black Lagoon, Universal's Mummy, while pleasantly chilling, was regarded by many as a bit of a bore.