Transforming Larry

The Wolf Man starring Lon Chaney, Jr. that is the most recognised of the early werewolf films. This film was to establish a Hollywood werewolf mythology, along with its own set of rules. The sympathetic monster, death by a silver bullet, aversion to wolfsbane, even the hint at the sexual connotations of the beast within were established with The Wolf Man. So thoroughly has the public accepted this cinematic version of were-folklore, you will often find the following quoted as an “Ancient Gypsy Rhyme,” even though it was screenwriter Curt Siodmak who composed the lines that Maria Ouspenskaya intones in the movie:
“Even a man who is pure in heart
And says his prayers by night
May become a wolf when the wolfsbane blooms
And the moon is full and bright”