Friday, October 31, 2008

Movie review – “She-Wolf of London” (1946) ** (warning: spoilers)

Reasonably enjoyable knock-off of Cat People and Gaslight, with June Lockhart (looking a lot like Anne) being convinced that she’s a werewolf and is killing people, so she doesn’t want to marry her nice fiancée (Don Porter). But it’s only a rellie trying to drive her insane , so there’s no werewolf action – which is a shame, since it would be great to see a female werewolf.

There’s a cute scene between Porter and Lochkart where the writer shows off his research by making reference to Plato and Shakespeare and societies who worshipped wolves. But the best bit is the end where Sara Haden has a knife and tells Lockhart she’s going to kill her – even though it’s silly Haden would confess, it’s fun to see the aunt from the Andy Hardy movies in psycho mode (she falls down the stairs and impales herself on the knife which is full on).

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