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Nov 14, 2014 - 11:58 AM
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RoryR
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Well, obviously something damaged it. I love this stuff as much as anyone who's posted here, and have watched the original and its first sequel, FRANKENSTEIN MEETS THE WOLF MAN (which I like better than THE WOLF MAN), many, many times, but THE WOLFMAN just didn't work for me, and didn't for most everyone else. Don't think I'm happy about that, as I'd love to see the classic monsters get new films, but so far nothing has worked and no one seems to know how to properly mount this stuff. VAN HELSING was a disaster, the modern MUMMY movies were a campy mess, and poor FRANKENSTEIN's monster has been destroyed better by bastardization than any fire, explosion, molten sulfur pit or ill-advised brain transplant ever did. I think that THE WOLF MAN, despite its ancient lycanthrope myth origins, is very much a 20th century horror concept. I think what was missing from THE WOLFMAN was proper subtext involving old world thinking clashing with modern understandings of human psychology. Anyone got a theory as to why THE WOLF MAN is still remembered over seventy years after its release, but THE WOLFMAN is about to be rebooted after just four years?
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