That crazy George Zucco is at it again. This time he’s a mad scientist who’s figured out how to turn people into werewolves. And get this, he wants to offer his idea to the US government so they can create a werewolf army to fight the Germans and Japanese. Why can’t today’s current events inspire horror movie ideas like this? This film’s big flaw: It’s a slow-moving, draggy pile of sleeping pills. Zucco’s reliable villainy is the highlight. Glenn Strange as his potato-brained manservant who subjects himself to the experiments is the second highlight. The rest is a buncha soggy cereal. Once Zucco perfects his Wolf Man project, he sets up all of the scientists who doubted him to be killed by sharp teeth and claws. You know the drill. You can also predict the ending, even if this film’s protagonists fumble about like they were born yesterday. This is one of TWENTY films directed by B-movie journeyman Sam Newfield that came out in 1942. He’s just pointin’ and shootin’ and burnin’ cigarette holes into a hacked-out script.
This is nothing special, but I still want to see that World War II werewolf army movie.