Until the climax, he’s not fully enveloped in how severe this situation is. Sequels handled Talbot’s inner turmoil with more gravitas, their uneven quality aside. Usually, the after effects find the entertainment value, as with a shaky journalist taking notes, clearly mortified about his job. Aside from the dense fog cover and thick, confining forests for visual power, the attacks lack genuine terror. Once engaged in the genre, meaning Talbot covered in fur, snarling and barking, Wolf Man becomes routine and same-y. Rather than induce horror, Wolf Man steers toward a depressive streak that finds Talbot repeatedly beaten by life. Other than its rejection of myths (which in-movie, are entirely true), the focus sits wholly on Talbot’s circumstance. Wolf Man remains a strict mood piece and character study, a slight outlier compared to Dracula or Invisible Man, which were culturally suggestive. That brief exchange is as deep as Wolf Man goes thematically. Wolf Man remains a strict mood piece and character study
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