This movie was solely responsible for selling me on the less anthropomorphic design of Universal's wolfman. They were able to make it look and feel just as animalistic and powerful as other interpretations.

This movie is so painfully underappreciated. Just the look and feel of it... so much authenticity🤌🏻

An excellent film, especially for a remake. The Director Cut is even better, it did everything right… should have been a much bigger hit….

Great movie and I loved the wolfman design. More werewolf movies and shows should reuse the iconic wolfman look.

I definitely believe the older gentleman that gave Lawrence the cane, was actually the Beast of Gevaudan. 😈🐺

The whole 'only one who loves him can set him free' thing probably alludes to some of the classic expressions of werewolf mythology in which the cursed individual would not stay dead, or at least not fully be at rest, unless killed in a specific manner, such as by a loved one. In the extended cut, Malaeva even asks Gwen if she knows what setting Laurence free would truly mean, strongly implying that it means killing him, something Gwen says she can't do at that point in the movie. In classic lycanthrope mythology, failure to kill a werewolf in the prescribed manner could result in the werewolf either returning to its cursed existence or coming back as an unquiet spirit.

There are a great many myths surrounding werewolves, but I know that in some cultures suspected dead werewolves would be buried at a crossroads to stop them rising again, and in an interesting precursor to the modern pop culture tendency to link werewolves and vampires, in some parts of Europe it was believed that one way in which a vampire could come to be was if a werewolf was incorrectly killed, resulting in it coming back as a vampire. There is even a creature in Mittel and Eastern European mythology called a Vudkolak which is essentially a half way house between the two, being an undead Lycanthropic being with vampiric powers.

13:44 The whole deal with the cane is that it was used to kill the Wolfman from the original film since the head of the cane is made of silver. So it was just an Easter egg for those who remember or know of the original black and white film.

2010 The Wolfman mixes two films.
• Werewolf of London (1935)
• The Wolfman (1941)
John Talbot's origin mirrors the 1935 by going to India and encountering a Werewolf.
Larry Talbot's origin most mirrors the 1941 film, replace the gypsy biting him with his father instead.

I saw the film in theaters. The guy with the cane on the train was in that version. Theater version I saw Larry didn't turn down the cane gift when offered though.

The acting in this movie was phenomenal. It actually has a story outside of get bit, turn, kill people and die at the end. Del Toro and Hopkins were outstanding playing the werewolf characters.

This was too perfect of a remake

Fun fact: this movie was set into
Universal Studios's DARKVerse, so to speak that Wolfman is been involved within the same universe than Dracula Untold , The Mummy and the sadly cancelled Invisible Man movie that was supposed to star Johnny Depp.

The phrase "only a loved one can kill you" may refer to the only person who will be able to face the beast and kill it is the person who loves the beast so much and can't see them in pain. You must face the beast to kill it, if you don't love them why wouldn't you run from it.
Only a person who loves it can set it free

This film had an amazing cast.

What I still don't understand is how the detective thought Sir John wasn't a werewolf, despite how he witnessed that Lawrence was right about himself being a werewolf. He did hear the doctor say how Lawrence ranted about Sir John being a werewolf

A true Gothic werewolf movie. I loved the atmosphere, the costumes, and the acting. I don't know why it lost money but some people do not like period pieces., I guess.

I liked this movie alright.   But you're wrong about one thing.  The "infected" do retain some of their supernatural strength while in human form.  When the villagers first came to Talbot Hall looking for blood, Lawrence commented on being able to hold 3 men back with relative ease.

These werewolves are too strong. Lawrence literally slapped a man's head clean of his neck and he ripped limb people from limb

Fun fact: Five years after this film, Benicio Del Toro and Emily Blunt (Lawrence Talbot and Gwen Conliffe respectively) would return to star together in the crime thriller film Sicario. Which my absolute favorite film from both of them.

It was a great film and unique among the werewolf genre. I liked that the werewolf form has a similar appearance to the original film. Am glad it wasn't changed to appear more wolf-like.

I love this movie. So fucking underated dude. The atmosphere, character relationships, plot, effects, all were amazing. Along with a STELLAR cast it still blows my mind how this movie didn't recieve SO much more love.