Henry Hull plays a scientist who ventures to Tibet to find a rare flower, which, incidentally, is a temporary cure for werewolf-ism, and while he's there, he is bitten by a werewolf. This turns him into a werewolf, and causes him to lose his beloved as well as any sort of focus on his experiments. The werewolf-transformation effects are better than those of the late Wolf Man movies, as are some surprisingly forward-thinking visual illusions that allow you to think people had good video monitors in their science labs back in the 30s. But mostly it's a whole lotta nuthin'. For all his shameless overacting, at least Lon Chaney, Jr. put his stamp on the whole "wolfman" thing. Werewolf of London lacks anything that would make it memorable or even interesting. True, I'd had at least eight beers before watching it, but even so.
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