Synopsis
Werewolf of London (1935) is a Universal horror you can watch online on iFILM. High in the mountains of Tibet, botanist Wilfred Glendon hunts a rare flower that blooms only by moonlight. Something attacks him in the dark. He sails home to his London lab a changed man.
The plant he carried back turns out to be the one thing that holds the transformation at bay. A soft-spoken stranger, Dr. Yogami — played by Warner Oland — claims they once crossed paths in Tibet, and warns that the curse spreads by bite and that the hunger always seeks out whoever you love most. Henry Hull plays the scientist watching the man inside him thin out with every full moon. Valerie Hobson is his wife Lisa, the very person the beast will come for first.
Directed by Stuart Walker, the film arrived six years before The Wolf Man and stands as Hollywood's first feature-length werewolf picture. The makeup is leaner than the later canon — Hull's monster keeps more of a human face, which somehow makes it worse. A great pick if you love Universal's black-and-white gothic and want to see where the whole genre began. Stream Werewolf of London (1935) online on iFILM.
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