3/30/2023 0 Comments A universal time cursed images![]() ![]() In just a few uncontrollable moments of moonlight, everything that makes a man or woman human is taken away and replaced with an insatiable lust for bloodshed, and the savage power to be nearly unstoppable. The idea of people changing into wolf-like monsters that would slaughter and eat even the ones they loved was unspeakably horrifying and wrong. Something that traditional werewolf stories had in common was that they were universally tragic stories. Six years after that, they also released The Wolf Man, and since those first black-and-white classics, there have been dozens of films that have carried on the fascinating tradition of telling stories about people destined to transform into terrifying, inhuman wolf creatures. This short film was lost in a fire at Universal Studios in 1924, but in 1935, Universal Pictures added a werewolf to its growing catalog of Universal monsters, titled Werewolf of London. Perhaps inspired by these novels, or in combination with the Navajo legend of skinwalkers, the first known werewolf story to be put on film came in 1913, titled, The Werewolf, a short, silent film in which an Indigenous woman enchants her daughter to become a wolf for purposes of revenge. And in 1896, Clemence Houseman wrote The Were-Wolf, in which an enchanted twin goes on a killing spree as a wolf before being killed. In 1891, Rudyard Kipling wrote The Mark of the Beast, a short story about a man cursed to become wolf-like until cured. In 1864, popular Scottish author George MacDonald wrote a short story about a young woman on the moors who would transform into The Gray Wolf to attack animals and men. In 1839, Frederick Marryat’s novel The Phantom Ship ended with an encounter with a woman who would transform into a white wolf to kill and devour people. This ancient story is where the word lycanthrope comes from.īut the Victorian era had plenty of its own werewolf stories as well. The narrative describes King Lycaon’s attempt to test Zeus by trying to feed him human flesh, and his bizarre impulse is punished by Zeus, who destroys the King’s palace and drives him into the wilderness, where his strange lust for slaughter and appetite for blood transforms him into a creature that is more wolf than man. ![]() In the first century, the Roman poet Ovid captured the Greek myth of Lycaon in his poem titled Metamorphoses. ![]() The stories of werewolves, or wolf men, go back much farther than the Victorian era. Bram Stoker wrote Dracula in 1897, which inspired the German silent film Nosferatu in 1922, and eventually was also produced by Universal Pictures in 1931 as Dracula, with Bela Lugosi as the titular vampire. Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein in 1816, and it was first brought to film in 1910 by Edison Studios, and then more famously produced by Universal Pictures in 1931 with Boris Karloff starring as the monster. For the most part, the earliest monster movies were following the lead of popular Victorian-era novels. Although the film industry is more than a century old, film is not where the idea of stories about monsters originated. ![]()
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