Clap for the Wolfman

More years ago than I really care to recall, I used to go , in company with a select group of friends, every Friday night at 11.00pm to one of the local movie houses. They used to screen "The Friday Night Horrors." We used to thoroughly enjoy them. lovely old moody black & whites with the emphasis on various & sundry creatures of the night in different combinations of rivalry, with a lot of Lon Chaney thrown in. There was always the good old Christopher Lee/Peter Cushing combo from the Hammer stable. And don't forget good old Vincent Price at his abominable best in the Dr. Phibes series & various others. Wonderful stuff to grow up with.

Herself & I went to the movies tonight. We went to see Wolf Man. I was sort of expecting a grand spectacle with the emphasis on special effects & not a great deal of story. I was pleasantly surprised. It was a damn good story with a good solid plot. Couple this with the intense acting we have come to expect from Anthony Hopkins ably supported by a very good cast. Yeah sure, there were the obligatory chiropracticly impossible bone stretching scenes that made you wince to watch, but then, they have been around in Wolf man movies ever since they were made. Good use was made of the quick glimpse that didn't really show you much followed by an incredibly swift taloned claw/hand dismembering the current victim.

Also notable was a spine chilling scene set in a Lunatic Asylum, complete with a bald cackling assistant, duckings into baths full of ice cold water, straight jackets, chains on the walls, the whole nine yards. So yeah, its clap for the Wolfman, as Guess Who recorded. Its a top movie, done with a lot of respect to the genre. We enjoyed it immensely. Go see it for yourself & see what I mean..