Good acting

This was a low-budget film, but the director nonetheless mananged created some great atmosphere and got some excellent performances from his mostly unknown actors. The guy that played the sheriff also was The Creature on land in "The Creature Walks Among Us", and the guy who played Dr. Chambers was the cop who told Boris Karloff/Lampini to get lost in "House of Frankenstein". So we have two Universal tie-ins there. The werewolf make up was done by the same make up artist that did the werewolves in the Three Stooges "Idle Roomers" (Lupe the Wolfman played by Duke York) and as Lugosi's slave werewolf in "Return of the Vampire". You can see the similarity in all three, and they were all made by Columbia. Just like in the story of Frankenstein, the mad scientists always get destroyed by their own misguided creations. If only the real world was really like that. When I was a kid and at the very end when the shefiff says "now he can go home", I thought and hoped perhaps he meant he was still alive and could go back to his family, but obviously what he meant was he was dead and could go home to be buried and finally be at peace. Which was so sad because Marsh was such and nice guy and had a very loving family. He was just a victim of fate in the wrong place at the wrong time, and met the wrong people. That happens all the time in this sad life. Anyway, I always enjoy this film a lot and it's above average from the films of the "golden age" of Sci-Fi, the 1950s.