Marvel Comics has published a lot of stories across many genres over the years. In the 1970's, Horror was becoming popular again. The genre had mostly died out in the previous decade after parents had forced publisher EC Comic out of business. They believed that ECs series "Tales From The Crypt", as well as others like it, had "corrupted" the young with its depiction of violence and gore.
This era of Marvel gave us characters like BLADE (3 movies 2 of which are good), MORBIUS (one movie that is baffling in it badness), MAN-THING (an awful television movie most don't even know exists) and WEREWOLF BY NIGHT. It is the latter that takes center stage in this entry into the scarier side of the MCU.
I really enjoyed this. It pays visual and tonal homage to the classic Universal Monster series with some ramped up action sequences. There were some very cool death scenes and lots of blood, but seeing as how the entire special is in black and white, it is just splatters of tar black spewing about.
At just under an hour in length, I wanted it to be longer and now I want to see more.
This era of Marvel gave us characters like BLADE (3 movies 2 of which are good), MORBIUS (one movie that is baffling in it badness), MAN-THING (an awful television movie most don't even know exists) and WEREWOLF BY NIGHT. It is the latter that takes center stage in this entry into the scarier side of the MCU.
I really enjoyed this. It pays visual and tonal homage to the classic Universal Monster series with some ramped up action sequences. There were some very cool death scenes and lots of blood, but seeing as how the entire special is in black and white, it is just splatters of tar black spewing about.
At just under an hour in length, I wanted it to be longer and now I want to see more.