The Curse Of The Werewolf

Despite many efforts to revitalize the werewolf movie, this Hammer effort is second only to the 1941 classic, THE WOLF MAN. The product of the brutal rape of a deaf-mute servant girl by a snarling mad beggar, young Walters is adopted by a kindly professor and his wife. As the boy grows older, however, his murderous tendencies emerge and his parents are forced to put bars on the windows in his room and lock him there when the moon is full. As an adult, the werewolf (now played by Oliver Reed) falls in love with Feller, who somehow mollifies his animal instincts. Fearing that he will harm her, Reed has himself sent to a monastery, but the chains binding him there are...