tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8877385849157369308.post3108437387425467638..comments2024-03-18T20:52:54.768-04:00Comments on The Horror Club: Review: The Wolfman (2010) The M'haelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00770238259793573664noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8877385849157369308.post-79269210337185115092010-08-15T16:55:22.540-04:002010-08-15T16:55:22.540-04:00Love Emily Blunt. Love Emily Blunt. Love Emily Blu...Love Emily Blunt. Love Emily Blunt. Love Emily Blunt. Love Emily Blunt. Love Emily Blunt.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8877385849157369308.post-44983404347623005012010-07-13T06:35:36.169-04:002010-07-13T06:35:36.169-04:00I just felt this movie didn't know if it wante...I just felt this movie didn't know if it wanted to be a remake or it's own monster. <br /><br />Either way I thought the atmosphere it created was pretty good... though I wished they didn't stick so close with the original 40's wolfman make-up design and maybe ventured into something more monstrous and less Teenwolf.Clarence Dasshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07236678012061388501noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8877385849157369308.post-48447267790308307002010-07-11T20:17:43.445-04:002010-07-11T20:17:43.445-04:00I find the wolfman to be a boring story, and that ...I find the wolfman to be a boring story, and that doesn't make me a "Modern" horror fan, or someone that doesn't feel empathy for tortured characters at all. The 1941 classic is bland a dated. It definitely deserves it's place in film history as an all time great, but it does nothing for me on screen.<br /><br />Dracula, on the other hand, never grows old or stale for me. It really comes down to the story an its elements for me personally.The M'haelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00770238259793573664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8877385849157369308.post-84595013793284960222010-06-29T23:49:14.754-04:002010-06-29T23:49:14.754-04:00When you start off your review of The Wolfman by s...When you start off your review of The Wolfman by saying that the original Wolf Man was "a little tame and stale" tells me that you are either a modern-horror-only film fan, or a horror fan that doesn't care about feeling empathy for the characters in a horror film, but is only interested in the visceral thrill of seeing people on screen terrorized and preferably butchered to get a buzz. I've had this argument with many horror film fans over the years, but I will never relinquish the opinion that the best horror films have characters in them that you care for an can empathise with, so that when they are put into horrific situations, you are frightened for them and with them. This is the reason that the original 1941 Wolf Man is a classic and genuinely horrifying film, because the tragic fate of Larry Talbot and the evil curse that he is beset with comes from him trying to good by attempting to save the life of another.<br /><br />The new Wolfman film is flawed, because it tries to emulate the tone of the original, but changes enough of its storyline, that you do not feel the same empathy for Del Toro's wolfman as you do for Chaney, Jr.'s. Even without some of the subtleties that the original film possesses, The Wolfman is still a good modern adaptation, with fine acting and top notch effects work. The film is a bit too long and you are right in that the start of the film (the second half of the first act) "drags a bit", but even so I liked this better than the remake of Frankenstein by Branagh and Dracula by Coppola. As a horror film fan, I hope that both the modern film fan and the classic film fan can find pleasure in both, as I do, and will continue to try to do. BTW: I can't agree with you more: Zombieland is much funnier than Shaun of the Dead.Fritz "Doc" Freakensteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13209589620766485745noreply@blogger.com