Last night, W.T. and I went to a midnight showing of “Wolfman” up at the mall.

Now, I must first preface this, and be a bit honest:  I cannot recall ever seeing the original Wolfman.  Ever.  Which is odd, since I can remember seeing all the other Universal Monster Movies.  I have no idea why or how I have missed it, but rest assured, that will be remedied as soon as possible.

Because I loved the new one.

Everything about this movie was very well done-the casting, costumes, story-all of it.  The mood of the film is great.  The design of the werewolf (which I will not divulge) is classic, but updated.  It fires on all cylinders, and delivers scares very well.  That would be the one thing I didn’t like about the movie.  Now, I don’t mind the “scare chord” in horror films, but when the scare chord is designed to blast you out of the seat with a modern sound system, and you are more riled by the sound blast than the actual scare, then you have a problem.  This, however, is more a theater problem than a problem with the movie.  Still, it’s rather vexing.

I do recommend it, as a fun escapist horror picture.  As I understand, since I haven’t seen the original, it captures the flavor of the original Lon Chaney picture, as well as updating it very well.