Aaron1375 I saw this film on the cult television riffing show, Mystery Science Theater 3000. Basically, this film is yet another take on the Universal classic, The Wolf Man with the only new aspect a mad scientist is the cause behind the terrible creature that roams the area. Not particularly bad, but not really much good in it either as it is very slow moving for a film that clocks in at only 77 minutes. Still, the acting is not too bad in this one and so it is a bit tolerable. Not sure I would care to see this without MST3K, but if I did it would be only to fill in the blanks as they must have cut a lot out of this one to make the episode because they had a short preceding it. In the end though, nothing to out of the ordinary as far as monster movies during its time.The story has a scientist who is working on a formula to mix the blood of an animal with that of a human being. The animal in question is a wolf and the man in question is the scientist's gardener who apparently believes that if you are a gardener you have no right to question anything your employer tells you to do. The result a wolf man...though it actually looks more like one of the monkeys from planet of the apes with a pair of Dracula novelty teeth. The scientist wishes to sell his creation to the army so that the army can have an army of animal/man hybrids at their disposal, but first he must have his revenge upon the men who criticized his work! That, of course, will be his undoing.This made for an okay episode of MST3K considering it was a first season episode which I consider their weakest season. They were still feeling their way at this point and it shows. The movie is preceded by a Commando Cody short and I see no reason for the short to be in front of this one. This film is 77 minutes long, that is plenty long enough to fill out an episode of MST3K. Maybe one small short, but this one took up the first block of the episode. Most films that have to have shorts to fill up the first block clock in at under an hour. Still, the jokes are rather good in the film portion of the film and make what would otherwise be a mundane Wolf Man clone into something a bit more humorous to watch.So, not a great film, but nothing to terribly horrible either. Just kind of a bland film featuring a Wolf Man and a mad scientist. I am sure there were several such films back in the day, in fact, I know there were as several have been showcased on MST3K. The film is a bit uneven too as it seems to take place in several time periods almost. You have the mansion, you have the city and then you have the people living in a swamp that almost seem to be living in a different time period than the rest of the film. In the end though, I say this film would have been better had the monster been just a little bit madder.

Rainey Dawn This movie is NOTHING like Universal's "Wolf Man" starring Lon Chaney, Jr. So if you are looking for something similar to the Universal class then this film is not for you. The ONLY similarity between this film and Universal's classic is the fact both werewolves appear to have hypertrichosis with a wild wolf instinct - that's it. The stories are quite different. The wolfman Petro's story is NOTHING like Larry Talbot's story."Mad Monster" is about a scientist that found a way to inject his subject with a serum that turns him into a werewolf. He sends the werewolf Petro to kill for him as revenge.Honestly "Mad Monster" is not a horrible werewolf film - it's a must see if you do like werewolves just to say 'I've seen that werewolf film' lol. Again, it's NOTHING like Universal's "Wolf Man" - but it's a totally different story all together.5.5/10

WakenPayne This Is A Truthfully Boring & Stupid Movie. I Only Saw It Via MTS3K...The Only Thing Not Turing My Brain Into Liquid Was The Breaks That Joel & The Bots Took. I Thought That I'd Eventually See The "Manos" Episode...I DON'T WANNA LIVE! The Movie Is Quite Easily One Of The Worst I Have Ever Seen. The Wolf Guy Stated At One Point That He Hardly Had An Education...He Made It Abundantly Obvious To Everyone. The Mad Scientist Does A Performance In The Movie So Bad That It Would Make Dolph Lungren Think Better About Himself As An Actor & Mean It Truthfully. This Underacted Piece Of Crap Should Only Be Watched Via MTS3K. You Can Watch The Film Unedited On IMDb For Free But Its Not Worth The Time.

JoeKarlosi Pretty bad PRC cheapie which I rarely bother to watch over again, and it's no wonder -- it's slow and creaky and dull as a butter knife. Mad doctor George Zucco is at it again, this time turning a dimwitted farmhand in overalls (Glenn Strange) into a poor man's wolf-man. Unfortunately, his makeup is virtually non-existent, consisting only of a fluffy wig, beard, and dimestore fangs for the most part. If it were not for Zucco and Strange's presence, along with the cute Anne Nagel, this would be completely unwatchable. Strange, who would go on to play Frankenstein's monster for Universal Studios in two years, does a Lennyesque impression from "Of Mice and Men", it seems. Really tired. *1/2 out of ****