10 Dumbest Decisions In Werewolf Movies
6. Using A Real Werewolf In A Lecture - The Wolfman (2010)
While this film doesn’t hold a candle to the 1941 classic
original, it has a gorgeous Gothic atmosphere and impressive effects with a
fantastic lead performance from Benicio del Toro.
That being said, a fair amount of the movie isn’t all that
great with a dense script and a lack of anything particularly scary. However,
the best scare of the movie is also the dumbest decision made by a character
throughout the whole runtime.
When Lawrence Talbot is bitten by a werewolf, goes on a
rampage and is subsequently arrested, he is subjected to a whole bunch of
psychiatric treatments that border on torture to try and cure his ‘delusions’.
The doctor then decides to use Lawrence as a medical case
study for a lecture, strapping him to a chair in the centre of the lecture hall
on the night of a full moon to prove he isn’t actually a werewolf.
What a truly silly sausage the doctor is, as of course
Larry viscerally transforms before the terrified audience and gets to doing
important werewolf things like slashing, tearing and ripping. It’s a massacre
and of course the doctor gets torn apart and Lawrence takes off into the night –
off to do some more of that aforementioned werewolf business on the streets of
London.