n my opinion it was a great movie with some interesting elements, even though having some plot holes and the ending probably was just too messy and crammed together, but still fun to watch and not your casual movie that is similar to all other ones.

Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

The rather unlikely directoral debut of Henry Levin, 'Cry of the Werewolf' (a title not echoed by anything that actually happens in the film) is a quickie detective/horror hybrid that owes more to Val Lewton's films at RKO than Universal's Wolf Man.Borrowings abound from 'The Cat People', such as the click of high heels pursuing the hero below stairs at the funeral parlour. Lewton, however, would shrewdly have avoided showing us as much as the animal as we see here, which obviously isn't a genuine wolf; and John Abbott's vivid description on the soundtrack of the "master's mangled body, over him stood a terrible animal, with flaming dripping jaws" is completely undercut by the inoffensive-looking doggie woggie we see nonchalantly padding off in the accompanying flashback.The luxurious main set, lit with his usual aplomb by L.W.O'Connell, was probably recycled from an earlier production along with the main theme from Castelnuovo-Tedesco's score for 'The Return of the Vampire'. As a pair of matriarchal lycanthropes, the enjoyably malevolent-looking Blanche Yurka and Nina Foch wouldn't have looked out of place as members of the Palladists in 'The Seventh Victim', while - probably intentionally - far more electricity is generated between the remarkably youthful looking Miss Foch (who gets preposterously little screen time) and Osa Massen than between either of them and the incredibly boring hero Stephen Crane. Barton MacLane as a tough, no-nonsense detective carries himself as if marauding werewolves are all in a day's work for cops on the New Orleans beat.

Apparently werewolf genes are inheritable as a young woman becomes one because of her mom; then, in a hairy mood, she goes after nice young couple who know about her problem.This Columbia studio production shows why Universal had the franchise on the half-human half-wolf. Instead of going the Universal route by using big-time make-up and blended dissolves, Columbia employs an actual German Shepherd dog, (not even a real wolf, mind you), as the fanged menace. And the nice doggie all but wags his tail while "menacing" the humans. Needless to say, this turns a potential horror movie into a version of Lassie Goes Bad, despite the best efforts of a strong supporting cast— e.g. Abbott, Leiber, Yurka.Then too, the war thinned out the ranks of Hollywood leading men, leaving lightweights such as Stephen Crane to haul the goods. Good thing he went into the restaurant business instead of staying on the stage. And what a waste of the talented Nina Foch who doesn't get nearly the screen time her character deserves. Instead, that goes to Osa Massen, a decent enough actress, but without Foch's special brand of haughty disdain.No need to waste time on this B-movie disappointment. Columbia simply cut too many budgetary corners with not enough imagination to produce anything more than a sometimes amusing misfire and a general waste of acting talent.

In the house where Marie Latour, a woman supposedly a werewolf, once lived a museum dedicated to the occult is set up. Latour had disappeared years before after killing her husband who discovered her secret. Years later the daughter of Latour returns and takes steps to make sure that her mother's grave and the secret temple are not desecrated. Confused and confusing supernatural tale seems to be trying to do Cat People one better but actually ends up several worse. Honestly this film is a bit of a mess story-wise. Watching this on DVD I even watched some scenes twice and had no idea what was going on. I honestly had no real idea what was going on and what the point of it all was. The problem is not so much the individual scenes but the complete lack of an idea about what the film is about. Yes the film has plot branches, but it doesn't have a central trunk, or at least a strong one to support all of the ideas. I'm not sure the film is really worth seeing. Pieces are, the opening of the film with a tour of the museum is fantastic. (Actually all of the bits are really good) The trouble is it never amounts to much beyond the pieces.

I can't believe these User Comments! Sheesh! This one has GOT to be one of the worst travesties and wastes of time in my book! What's up with Stephen Crane? Terrible actor! He's attacked by the werewolf and then stands up calmly, brushes himself off and says: "Yeah..I'm okay..." This is the best that Lana Turner could do? The whole piece of garbage looked like it was made for about twenty bucks. Nina Foch must have gone home a gotten drunk every night. The "wolf" was the only natural actor in the movie! Fritz Leiber's wooden performance brings new meaning to the expression "bad actor"! And Osa Massen? I couldn't get Inga from Young Frankenstein out of my mind!