Before Hollywood, werewolf legends didn't necessarily involve the full moon, or humans (usually men, usually Lon Chaney Jr.) sprouting hair in painstaking stop-motion (The Wolf-Man, Frankenstein Meets the Wolf-Man). I have not found a werewolf legend involving rare Tibetan flowers (Werewolf of London).
These old werewolf movies suffer for their dated look and feel, their outdated make-up, their poor dialogue, and their silly law enforcement officers (in The Wolf-Man, the murder weapon that was used to kill the original gypsy werewolf played by Bela Lugosi, is returned to its owner). And yet, weak as they are by today's standards, these movies provide a unique form of entertainment. If we wish to know what future generations are going to think of today's cutting-edge movie effects, we can experience it by watching old monster movies.
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