You may have to be an old-school psychotronica fan to get all flushed about The Wolfman , the big-budget, bandwagon-jumping remake famous at this point only for bad reviews and a brief box-office fizzle in February. It’s a schizophrenic movie at heart, longing to be a big ker-splash the pleases the hordes but at the same time wallow in the deep pools of yesteryear “monster culture” with which not many filmgoers under 35 will be intimate. Even among those of us older than that, only a small slice will have seen the original Wolfman (1941), can recall Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine and The Monster Times, harbor memories of local TV station “horror hosts,” and can name the four actors that played the Frankenstein monster in the ’30s-’40s Universal series, in order.
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