Hidden message in the film (according to Blogger)

If you've ever seen the film "The Celluloid Closet", the documentary that chronicles the dipiction of gays and lesbians throughout the history of film, it demonstrates how until very recently, all gay images in film were extremely negative. These films would include those with openly gay characters from films such as "Cruising" or "The General", both with terribly negative images of gays, and also those films where the homosexual characters are not always shown as explicitly gay, rather their "gayness", if you will, is merely "suggested". This film is a great example of the latter.
The "suggestion" of homosexuality is present in the characters of the two doctors who experiment and cause the "werewolfery" of the central character. The two male doctors are presented as "a couple" with one being masculine and dominant and the other being quite effeminant and submissive.
Together this gay (sic) couple attack and destroy what is presented as the healthy, loving, "normal", heterosexual family by experimenting on the father of that family, namely Duncan.
If you've missed this not so subtle gay subtext involving the doctors, I recommend you take a look at "The Celluloid Closet", then view "The Werewolf" again.
Steven Ritch who wrote and stars as the werewolf has either deliberately or unconsciously, created what is obviously a gay subtext in the characters of the doctors, who as usual, meet a ghastly end, thus "punishing" the big, bad, homosexuals once more. Watch "The Werewolf" again, the Blogger is quite right,- its' there.

BTW, for all the nay-sayers here, there is also a "gay subtext" in Michael Landon's "I Was A Teenage Werewolf". Again we have a "male couple" of scientists responsible for causing the werewolf troubles of the main straight guy character Tony...who will meet their demise in the same brutal fashion as those in "The Werewolf". There is also an implied gay character in "Frank", Tony's friend who is good looking, sensitive, a bit "different"....and the ONLY guy without a girlfriend. Following the Halloween party, Tony and his girl offer to drive Frank home. Frank declines the offer, goes off alone (of course) taking the short cut through the woods...and... of course (as all gays wind up in 1950s movies) he is brutally killed. If you doubt that...watch the movie again. The "gay subtext", though usually not the main storyline in such films, is often there. It is certainly present in these two films and others of the 1950s. Open your eyes.

Oh, my God....can we just stop? It's a movie....about an Atomic powered werewolf. It's supposed to be FUN, not dissected. The doctor and his assistant aren't supposed to be gay or portrayed as gay. The lead doctor is supposed to be portrayed as uncaring of humans in his pursuit of his lofty science. The assistant is there to show that he'll even treat his most trusted assistant like dirt to reach his goals.



I swear, the internet just breeds ignorance in the guise of enlightenment.