Everything Action Commentary: The Wolf Man (1941)

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For this month's Everything Action Commentary, Zach and Chris watch the Universal Monsters classic The Wolf Man with the Leigh Whannell reimagining hitting theaters earlier this month.

Lon Chaney Jr. stars as Larry Talbot, who returns to his ancestral home in Wales, and his father, Sir John Talbot (Claude Rains). While visiting a Romani fortune teller with the daughter of the local antique dealer, Gwen Conliffe (Evelyn Ankers), Larry is attacked by a wolf and bitten in the chest but manages to kill the creature with a silver-topped cane. Soon afterward, Larry begins to transform into The Wolf Man and stalks the local woods, killing a villager and causing a hunting party to be formed to find the creature. While watching the movie, Zach and Chris comment on the classic Wolf Man makeup, Larry's peeping tom tendencies, the trio of Universal Monster actors (Chaney Jr, Rains, and Bela Lugosi), wonder what Larry was doing in America for years and more.

You can watch The Wolf Man on Peacock, AMC+, or Shudder and sync up the track to watch along with the Everything Action crew.

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