This classic Universal horror vehicle is as straightforward as it gets. Not sure at all if it was the first depiction of werewolves in movies and i’m to lazy right now to research this any further. All i can say is that, for what it is, this is one of the more effective and entertaining entries in the Universal canon. Don’t expect to be frightened (which is, if you ask me, not the attribute by which to judge horror movies anyway), but expect yourself to give enough of a fuck about the protagonists in this rather sad story, which is something you can’t always count on with these flicks.