Michael Landon's first full length movie. (1957) For anyone to watch, in time for Halloween and Michael's 72nd birthday. A troubled teenager seeks help through hypnotherapy, but his evil doctor uses him for regression experiments that transform him into a rampaging werewolf.
@yummydarjeeling
Well, no, but it is only supposed to happen when there's a full moon. A lot of these movies right up until the present have messed around with the continuity, though.
jerico641 3 months ago
Wait, I thought werewolves didn't turn till midnight?
yummydarjeeling 6 months ago
part 6 stops.not complete
rondogon48 8 months ago
hmm...
Deadmansparty2002 10 months ago
@boingokky Some of it came from the berzerker warriors, who dressed in bear skins and fought like animals.
ZeldaQueen64 1 year ago
"I don't subscribe to old wives' tales" - it's not on my RSS feed!
johnparadox 1 year ago
In folklore, killing a werewolf with a silver bullet is like killing a vampire with holy water,But a silver bullet on the other hand is a sign of a werewolf weakness.
Greaserville 1 year ago
Can't compare a classic werewolf to a modern werewolf in horror films. Modern lycans are more dog formed and vicious. They'll fucking tear in to strips.
Greaserville 1 year ago
@k1000a92 Most myths have some basis in fact. It's fantastic to think that man can transform into an animal, but hundreds to thousands of years ago, we have no idea how the werewolf legend came about!
boingokky 2 years ago
Unlike vampires, they are not generally thought to be harmed by religious artifacts such as crucifixes and holy water. In many countries, rye and mistletoe were considered effective safeguards against werewolf attacks. Mountain ash is also considered effective, with one Belgian superstition stating that no house was safe unless under the shade of a mountain ash. In some legends, werewolves have an aversion to wolfsbane
whiteash002 2 years ago
So what this movie says is that if I put on my werewolf costume in Transylvania, and run through the night making a few scary wolf noises, they'll think I'm a werewolf? That's just hilarious. Wow, that'd be fun ... until they shoot me down with silver bullets and stake me through the heart with a crucifix ...
MoonShadowWolfe 2 years ago
For example, I once read that if you hide in the shade of a Mountain Ash Tree, a werewolf cannot attack you, and by that extension the wood of that tree protects you against one. I'll bet you've never heard that one before.
MoonShadowWolfe 2 years ago
Right. In very ancient tellings, some Werewolves would be killed by other means. ^^
whiteash002 2 years ago
@whiteash002 It is true that legends about werewolves are ancient, while the idea about vulnerability to silver bullets is quite modern.
CassieLopez 2 years ago
oh I don't know. The Lone Ranger liked silver
RemoSC49 2 years ago
If you True, but it's also silly to think a man who turns into a wolf-man is somehow going to be magically immune to anything other than silver.
whiteash002 2 years ago
Given the fact that lycanthropy is a myth in itself, isn't it?
k1000a92 2 years ago 2
It's a myth that only silver bullets can kill a werewolf, you know.
whiteash002 2 years ago
Don't they know about silver bullets?
mermac75 2 years ago