This excellent, darkly atmospheric tale is a cracking Gothic TZ. It starts with Ellington (HM Wynant) about to tell a tale 'you will not believe at first'. A storm brings Ellington to seek refuge in a hermitage occupied by a quasi-religious order of beardie weirdies, of which their leader Brother Jerome (John Carradine) is the beardiest weirdie of them all. Ellington has heard a disturbing howling noise in the hermitage that at first is dismissed as the wind. Then Ellington meets a man held prisoner by the beardie bunch. This man claims that the staff-carrying, anti-diluvian-looking Brother Jerome is mad and lecherous. Who should Ellington believe when Brother Jerome's explanation for his captivity makes the situation even more bizarre? It could happen, I suppose.
Review of The Howling Man
