Book Review: The Wolfman
During one of my latest visits to the local library I stumbled upon a novelization of the 2010 remake of The Wolfman , written by Jonathan Maberry. The 2010 movie was a bit of a guilty pleasure of mine; it wasn’t as much of a horror film as I hoped, but it was a pretty enjoyable action film and it was quite pretty to look at when the entrails of hapless victims weren’t being thrown about. The novelization almost exactly follows the movie’s script. Protagonist Lawrence Talbot heads back to his old home in Blackmoor after hearing that his brother Ben had disappeared. Back in Blackmoor he reunites with his estranged father Sir John and discovers that they had found his Ben’s corpse, mangled beyond belief. Lawrence is bitten by a werewolf while searching for the truth of his brother’s murder and transforms into the equally psychotic and dangerous Wolfman when the full moon rears her pretty head. Even though the book follows the movie script almost exactly, it is still a bit of a d...