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June Lockhart as Phyllis Allenby
She-Wolf Of London (1946)
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The latter half of the 1940s were lean years for horror movies, probably because the world wasn’t really in the mood for on-screen horror after enduring several years of real horror in the first half of the decade. So how helpful of Universal to do a film with basically no monster! Yes, despite the title there isn’t really a proper werewolf here. You see, Phyllis Allenby just thinks she’s a werewolf because of a family curse (sorry to spoil things, but you’re not missing much). With stiff performances and virtually no flavour of olde London town, this is a rotten yarn. Impressive, though, how incidents that happen in the middle of the night are reported in the following morning’s papers – it’s like they’d invented the internet a hundred years early.
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