Werewolves and Vampires - Cinematic Transformations.

George Waggner’s is among the most recognised of the early werewolf films, the 1941 film The Wolf Man and Tod Browning’s equally famous, 1931 Dracula established many of the supernatural and mythic “laws” of their respective sub- genres that remain prevalent in popular cinematic experience. The myths themselves “shifting” reflecting the era and the cinematic experience, as can be seen by Lon Chaney Jr.’s portrayal of the not quite sympathetic hero, who becomes the slightly more sympathetic monster. Other modern were creature lores, such as death by silver, aversion to wolfsbane, even the hint of the sexual and Freudian nature of the werewolf, were initiated with The Wolf Man.