This movie once again proves that gooey SFX and billions of budget are not necessary to produce a good suspense/horror movie. In the 1930s scientist (as it was all the rage back then ) travels to Himalaya to harvest a mysterious flower, but he ends up fighting a mysterious creature. Back home, he grows his newly acquired flower while an array of characters pivot around social gatherings and other time-killing pastimes. Mysteriously appears exotic dr. Yogami, a pensive character who wants to find a cure for lycanthropy and his trophy wife's former beau ( a silly prat with Erroll Flynn mustaches ). Yogami poses as disinterested philanthropist...but is he? The scientist soon discovers he's contracted lycanthropy in China, but has the story ended in China? The flower of his rare flower can temporarily offset the attacks, but flower buds are stolen and people start dying...even when dr. Glendon isn't around... Hull portrays the scientist torn between science, his wife, survival and the bestial cravings his illness instills in a very convincing manner. Oland is also good as dr.Yogami. The rest of the cast isn't worth mentioning...Hobson as Lisa is very pretty. SFX are good era and genre wise and plot contrivances are excellent.
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