History Film / CryOfTheWerewolf

** Just don't breach a Werewolf's privacy in general, [[TillMurderDoUsPart even if the Werewolf is your wife]], or they will maul you to death (as Marie [=LaTour's=] husband found out the hard way).

* BigBad: Celeste, a Werewolf gypsy princess obsessed with keeping her family's secrets from being exposed.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: For WerewolfWorks as a whole. As it premiered only three years after ''Film/TheWolfMan1941'', this movie notably does ''not'' have many of the typical pop-culture werewolf attributes like transmittion by bite, forced transformation on the night of the full moon, or a weakness to silver bullets. Celeste also acts like a SorcerousOverlord in addition to being a werewolf, with lycanthropy as just ''one'' of her many weapons ([[spoiler: hypnotism being one of them]]). Lampshaded when a GenreSavvy police officer asks to requisition some silver bullets ([[spoiler:that ultimately aren't needed]]).

* BigBad: Celeste, a gypsy princess obsessed with keeping her family's secrets from being exposed.

* HumanToWerewolfFootprints: The reason why Marie [=LaTour=] murdered her husband. He found some wolf prints entering the house, and followed him right up to her. She promptly mauled him to death before running away.

In New Orleans is a museum of occult oddities- including vampires, voodoo, and werewolves- that was formerly a house belonging to the LaTour family. The curator of the museum, Dr. Charles Morris, is preparing to publish a book on Marie LaTour, a werewolf who murdered her husband and then disappeared; his son Bob Morris (Crane) is on a flight from DC to New Orleans to help with the project, so he sends the Transylvanian-born museum secretary Elsa Chauvet (Massen), who is also Bob's girlfriend, to pick him up at the airport. The museum janitor, Jan Spavero, is secretly TheRenfield for Marie's descendant, a [[HotGypsyWoman gypsy princess]] (who is also a werewolf) named Celeste (Foch), and notifies her about the impending publication one evening after the last tour of the day. Celeste takes objection, and decides to terminate the curator with extreme prejudice. During the last tour of the next day, Celeste sneaks in and hides in a secret chamber hidden behind a secret passage next to the fireplace in the parlor room where Marie LaTour had murdered her husband. When Dr. Morris goes into the chamber to do some more after-hours research, Celeste [[GoryDiscretionShot loudly mauls him off-screen]], with only the tour guide overhearing.

* AchievementsInIgnorance: During the climax of the movie, Bob Morris and the police officers accidentally blunder across [[spoiler: Marie LaTour's grave, which was in a hidden crypt in the secret chamber]]. Unlike the late Dr. Charles Morris, they don't recognize the importance of it, [[spoiler: as they're too busy searching the house for a werewolf to care about it]].

* BerserkButton: Don't publish anything about the LaTour family, or Celeste will respond with lethal force.

** Played its straightest during the introductory flashback, and the immediate aftermath of Marie LaTour murdering her husband- the body is said to be mangled and mutilated, but is clearly still intact on-screen.

* ChekhovsLecture: With the exception of the Vampire lore (which foreshadows that the werewolf has [[TheRenfield a minion]] but is otherwise a RedHerring), ''everything'' in the expository museum tour becomes relevant to the plot, ''especially'' the talk of werewolfery and Marie LaTour murdering her husband.

** The movie's thumbnail on Creator/{{Tubi}} is a generic image of a woman in a Victorian (or Antebellum Southern) gown flanked by a pair of wolves. Celeste is the only active werewolf in the entire movie (the other one, Marie, being a PosthumousCharacter), and this movie is presumably set in the present (the 1940s), and both the expository flashback and the portrait in the museum show Marie LaTour in an Edwardian-era gown.

** Her ancestor, Marie LaTour, also counts, since she murdered her husband as a werewolf and then ran away to join a tribe of Gypsies.
* DestroyTheEvidence: Celeste throws Dr. Charles Morris's notes on Marie LaTour into the fireplace and starts a fire to burn them. Bob then subverts this by using forensic techniques to reconstruct the burnt notes. [[spoiler: Double-Subverted when Jan Spavero then destroys the notes. Unfortunately for him, he leaves his handprint on the wall in doing so, resulting in Celeste mauling him to death for his incompetence.]]
* DisproportionateRetribution: Marie LaTour murdered her husband because he had followed her HumanToWerewolfFootprints right up to her.

* {{Fainting}}: Celeste's foster-mother faints [[CourtroomAntic so that she doesn't answer the question]] about Marie LaTour joining the tribe.

* FreakyFuneralForms: The local Gypsies have been having only one funeral per year, a mass funeral where all of the bodies of those who died since the previous funeral are buried at once, since at least the time when Marie LaTour had joined up with them (whether or not they'd done so before is a question left unanswered due to someone {{Fainting}} during a hearing). Bob Morris avails this opportunity to examine the body of [[spoiler: Jan Spavero]], only for [[spoiler: Celeste to turn into a werewolf and chase him through the morgue basement]].

* HumanToWerewolfFootprints: The reason why Marie LaTour murdered her husband. He found some wolf prints entering the house, and followed him right up to her. She promptly mauled him to death before running away.

* MurderIsTheBestSolution: Celeste hears of Dr. Charles Morris attempting to publish a book about Marie LaTour and ''immediately'' jumps straight to plotting murder. Presumably [[MundaneSolution just filing a cease-and-desist lawsuit]] would have saved her a lot of grief ([[spoiler: and the lives of herself and her minion Jan]]), but being a werewolf probably made her too AxeCrazy.

** Celeste (and the Gypsies in the audience) during the courtroom hearing, when Bob Morris casually brings up the fact that Marie LaTour had joined up with them after murdering her husband. One of them even faints so that Celeste doesn't have to answer the question.

* OurVampiresAreDifferent: A Vampire skeleton is on display in the LaTour museum, with a stake through its ribcage where the heart would be. Vampire lore is apparently pretty much the standard post-''Literature/{{Dracula}}'' lore, [[RedHerring but vampires aren't relevant to the movie and aren't mentioned again]].

* PosthumousCharacter: Marie LaTour only ever appears via the expository flashback and the portrait of her in the room where she murdered her husband, and is mentioned to be deceased in Celeste's dialogue.

* SmallRoleBigImpact: Marie LaTour is a PosthumousCharacter who only appears once by flashback and twice by portrait, and yet her murdering her husband is the whole reason the movie happens in the first place.

* StoppedClock: In the room where Marie LaTour murdered her husband, the clock was stopped at the exact moment of the murder. [[spoiler: Celeste turns the clock back on when she hypnotizes Elsa]].

In New Orleans is a museum of occult oddities- including vampires, voodoo, and werewolves- that was formerly a house belonging to the LaTour family. The curator of the museum, Dr. Charles Morris, is preparing to publish a book on Marie LaTour, a werewolf who murdered her husband and then disappeared; his son Bob Morris (Crane) is on a flight from DC to New Orleans to help with the project, so he sends the Transylvanian-born museum secretary Elsa Chauvet (Massen), who is also Bob's girlfriend, to pick him up at the airport. The museum janitor, Jan Spavero, is secretly TheRenfield for Marie's descendant, a [[HotGypsyWoman Gypsy Princess]] (who is also a werewolf) named Celeste (Foch), and notifies her about the impending publication one evening after the last tour of the day. Celeste takes objection, and decides to terminate the curator with extreme prejudice. During the last tour of the next day, Celeste sneaks in and hides in a secret chamber hidden behind a secret passage next to the fireplace in the parlor room where Marie LaTour had murdered her husband. When Dr. Morris goes into the chamber to do some more after-hours research, Celeste [[GoryDiscretionShot loudly mauls him off-screen]], with only the tour guide overhearing.

--> Detective: "[[spoiler: We're looking for a ''live'' Gypsy, not a dead one!]]"
* AffablyEvil: Celeste is almost always soft-spoken and polite with both her minions ([[spoiler: unless [[YouHaveFailedMe they screw up]], in which case she kills them]]) and the protagonists.

* BigBad: Celeste, a Gypsy Princess obsessed with keeping her family's secrets from being exposed.

* HotGypsyWoman: Celeste, the local Gypsy Princess (who is also a werewolf). This is accentuated by how she usually dresses in bodiced and petticoated dresses that resemble Hungarian folk costume. Downplayed in that Celeste is not a full-blooded Gypsy but instead descended from a French-American werewolf who had joined the tribe some years prior.

In New Orleans is a museum of occult oddities- including Vampires, Voodoo, and Werewolves- that was formerly a house belonging to the LaTour family. The curator of the museum, Dr. Charles Morris, is preparing to publish a book on Marie LaTour, a Werewolf who murdered her husband and then disappeared; his son Bob Morris (Crane) is on a flight from DC to New Orleans to help with the project, so he sends the Transylvanian-born museum secretary Elsa Chauvet (Massen), who is also Bob's girlfriend, to pick him up at the airport. The museum janitor, Jan Spavero, is secretly TheRenfield for Marie's descendant, a [[HotGypsyWoman Gypsy Princess]] (who is also a Werewolf) named Celeste (Foch), and notifies her about the impending publication one evening after the last tour of the day. Celeste takes objection, and decides to terminate the curator with extreme prejudice. During the last tour of the next day, Celeste sneaks in and hides in a secret chamber hidden behind a secret passage next to the fireplace in the parlor room where Marie LaTour had murdered her husband. When Dr. Morris goes into the chamber to do some more after-hours research, Celeste [[GoryDiscretionShot loudly mauls him off-screen]], with only the tour guide overhearing.

* AchievementsInIgnorance: During the climax of the movie, Bob Morris and the police officers accidentally blunder across [[spoiler: Marie LaTour's grave, which was in a hidden crypt in the secret chamber]]. Unlike the late Dr. Charles Morris, they don't recognize the importance of it, [[spoiler: as they're too busy searching the house for a Werewolf to care about it]].

* ArcWords: "Daughter of the Werewolf". Celeste uses this in an affirmation of her identity [[spoiler: after killing Jan for [[YouHaveFailedMe his incompetence]] and getting the police on her trail]], and later says it to [[spoiler: Elsa, who she plans on turning into another Werewolf]]. This was apparently going to be a TitleDrop if the movie had been titled ''Daughter of the Werewolf'' instead of ''Cry of the Werewolf''.
* AxeCrazy: The tour guide invokes this trope in his expository tour, arguing that Werewolves are worse than Vampires because only a psychopath would willingly turn into a wolf to kill people.
* BadassBookworm: Bob Morris is a museum curator's son and a scholar of the occult, who helps resolve his father's murder and [[spoiler: can go toe-to-toe with an angry Werewolf in the climax, a feat that ''very few'' horror protagonists can boast of]].

* TheCavalry: An entire squad of police officers shows up to assist the protagonists in the final fight, [[spoiler: and dispatch the Werewolf with well-aimed pistol shots]].
* ChekhovsLecture: With the exception of the Vampire lore (which foreshadows that the Werewolf has [[TheRenfield a minion]] but is otherwise a RedHerring), ''everything'' in the expository museum tour becomes relevant to the plot, ''especially'' the talk of Werewolfery and Marie LaTour murdering her husband.

** The movie's thumbnail on Creator/{{Tubi}} is a generic image of a woman in a Victorian (or Antebellum Southern) gown flanked by a pair of wolves. Celeste is the only active Werewolf in the entire movie (the other one, Marie, being a PosthumousCharacter), and this movie is presumably set in the present (the 1940s), and both the expository flashback and the portrait in the museum show Marie LaTour in an Edwardian-era gown.

** Her ancestor, Marie LaTour, also counts, since she murdered her husband as a Werewolf and then ran away to join a tribe of Gypsies.

* TheDreaded: Werewolves. Many of the people who know about Werewolves, including Elsa (who grew up in Transylvania), are so afraid that they refuse to discuss them even in private. The museum tour guide even ''outright states'' in the museum tour that Werewolves are scarier than Vampires, because Vampires are victims of a curse and must feed on the blood of the living, whereas only an AxeCrazy person would willingly turn into a wolf to kill people. Considering how ruthless and effective Celeste is throughout the movie, that reputation is well-deserved.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: For WerewolfWorks as a whole. As it premiered only three years after ''Film/TheWolfMan1941'', this movie notably does ''not'' have many of the typical pop-culture Werewolf attributes like transmittion by bite, forced transformation on the night of the full moon, or a weakness to silver bullets. Celeste also acts like a SorcerousOverlord in addition to being a Werewolf, with Lycanthropy as just ''one'' of her many weapons ([[spoiler: hypnotism being one of them]]). Lampshaded when a GenreSavvy Police Officer asks to requisition some silver bullets ([[spoiler:that ultimately aren't needed]]).

* FemmeFatale: Celeste definitely acts like one. Aside from being a Werewolf, she also holds a position of authority, dresses in a tasteful but exotic manner, attempts to seduce Bob Morris to drive a wedge between him and Elsa, and [[spoiler: uses hypnosis to [[BrainwashedAndCrazy turn Elsa into a minion who gives false confessions]] during the final battle]].

* FreakyFuneralForms: The local Gypsies have been having only one funeral per year, a mass funeral where all of the bodies of those who died since the previous funeral are buried at once, since at least the time when Marie LaTour had joined up with them (whether or not they'd done so before is a question left unanswered due to someone {{Fainting}} during a hearing). Bob Morris avails this opportunity to examine the body of [[spoiler: Jan Spavero]], only for [[spoiler: Celeste to turn into a Werewolf and chase him through the morgue basement]].
* GenreSavvy: One of the Police Officers participating in the final manhunt for the Werewolf asks to requisition some silver bullets ([[spoiler: which aren't needed]]), and another [[NeverSplitTheParty protests against going by himself to fix the power]].
* GoryDiscretionShot: Dr. Charles Morris being mauled by a Werewolf happens entirely offscreen- though other people hear the death and report it to the police. [[spoiler: Jan Spavero is later given an ExitPursuedByABear and is then mentioned as being dead]]. Neither UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode nor the special effects of the time would have allowed an on-screen Werewolf mauling.

* HollywoodSatanism: Voodoo is depicted this way, with secret temples and violent occult rituals, and practiced by Gypsies [[spoiler: and Celeste's monologue to Elsa during the hypnosis heavily suggests that this trope is the default religion of Werewolves]](HollywoodVoodoo is also mentioned in passing as being practiced by people in the Caribbean during the museum tour).
* HotGypsyWoman: Celeste, the local Gypsy Princess (who is also a Werewolf). This is accentuated by how she usually dresses in bodiced and petticoated dresses that resemble Hungarian folk costume. Downplayed in that Celeste is not a full-blooded Gypsy but instead descended from a French-American Werewolf who had joined the tribe some years prior.

** The Museum Curator is killed off-screen by the Werewolf.
** [[spoiler: Jan Spavero is last seen alive [[ExitPursuedByABear chased by an angry Werewolf]], and is then mentioned to be dead]].

* LectureAsExposition: The museum tour guide's tour gives the exposition about Vampires, Voodoo, and Werewolves.
* LetsSplitUpGang: Initially defied by a GenreSavvy police officer during the climax, but then played straight when the cops fain out to search for the Werewolf. [[spoiler: Fortunately for them, Celeste was too busy attacking Bob to maul any of them, so they can converge and act as TheCavalry]].
* MagicPants: Whatever clothes a Werewolf is wearing when they turn into a wolf spontaneously disappear during the transformation, only to reappear when they revert back. [[spoiler: The bodiced and petticoated dress that Celeste was wearing right before the final battle reappears [[NoOntologicalInertia on her corpse when it shifts back from wolf to human]] at the end of the movie]].
* MatchCut: When Werewolf transformations aren't off-screen, these are used to show a Werewolf instantaneously transforming. There are three such match cuts in the entire film: once in silhouette ([[spoiler: when Celeste [[YouHaveFailedMe mauls Jan Spavero]] after he got his fingerprints on the crime scene]]), and twice on-screen ([[spoiler: when Celeste transforms in the climax to attack Bob Morris, and then when [[NoOntologicalInertia her corpse changes back]] after she is shot]]).

* MoreDeadlyThanTheMale: Both of the Werewolves in this movie (Marie and her descendant Celeste) are female, both are utterly ruthless, and both are willing and able to kill people to guard their secrets.

* MurderIsTheBestSolution: Celeste hears of Dr. Charles Morris attempting to publish a book about Marie LaTour and ''immediately'' jumps straight to plotting murder. Presumably [[MundaneSolution just filing a Cease-And-Desist lawsuit]] would have saved her a lot of grief ([[spoiler: and the lives of herself and her minion Jan]]), but being a Werewolf probably made her too AxeCrazy.

* NoOntologicalInertia: [[spoiler: Celeste reverts back from Werewolf to human after she's shot and killed]].

* OccultDetective: Downplayed. The only overtly supernatural character in the movie is the murderer, a Werewolf who is also [[spoiler: capable of hypnotizing people]], while Bob Morris, who is help solving the case, is well-versed in supernatural lore but doesn't have any magic himself.

** The tour guide when he hears Charles Morris being mauled to death by a Werewolf in a hidden room.

** Bob Morris when [[spoiler: he's suddenly being chased through the basement of a morgue by a Werewolf]].
** Elsa when [[spoiler: she's suddenly cornered by an angry Celeste, who wants to turn her into a Werewolf like herself]].
** The police officers [[spoiler: investigating the secret chamber in the museum, when they hear a wolf howl and realize a Werewolf is in the building with them]].
** Bob Morris when [[spoiler: a brainwashed Elsa points a gun at him, while Celeste is urging her to shoot him]], followed immediately after when [[spoiler: Celeste turns into a Werewolf ''right in front of him'' and tries to kill him herself]].
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: A Vampire skeleton is on display in the LaTour museum, with a stake through its ribcage where the heart would be. Vampire lore is apparently pretty much the standard post-''Literature/{{Dracula}}'' lore, [[RedHerring but Vampires aren't relevant to the movie and aren't mentioned again]].
* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: Werewolves in this setting are people who use magic for VoluntaryShapeshifting into the form of a wolf, and retain their human minds and intellect in wolf form, and this magic can be taught (Celeste, the main Werewolf of the film, [[spoiler: is also a hypnotist, and attempts to brainwash another woman into becoming a Werewolf herself]]). The transformation is apparently instantaneous and [[MagicPants conveniently stows away the Werewolf's clothes]]. [[spoiler: While they are stronger than baseline humans or wolves, a sufficiently strong human can go toe-to-toe with them, and they can be killed with regular bullets, and any injuries they suffer as a wolf are carried over into human form (or vice versa)]].
** The museum tour guide also describes Werewolves as being TheDreaded ''even in comparison to Vampires'', since only someone who is AxeCrazy would willingly turn into a wolf and attack people.

* PutDownYourGunAndStepAway: [[spoiler: Right before the final battle, Elsa has a gun and is in the room with Celeste and Bob, Celeste urging her to shoot him and Bob urging her to put the gun down. Bob manages to [[GunStruggle wrestle the gun out of Elsa's hands]], and then Celeste turns into a Werewolf and attacks him]].
* TheRenfield: A rare example of a ''Werewolf'' having a Renfield rather than a Vampire- Jan Spavero, the janitor at the museum, is Celeste's eyes and ears in the museum. [[spoiler: When he leaves his fingerprint on the crime scene, Celeste has his service to her [[YouHaveFailedMe terminated with extreme prejudice]] and mauls him to death]].
* ReverseWhodunnit: The murderer is introduced early in the movie, and spends the rest of her subplot trying to cover her tracks, while the Protagonists are simultaneously trying to solve the murder case.

* SorcerousOverlord: Despite being a Werewolf, Celeste acts as much like this trope as she does a typical movie Werewolf. She is versed in the dark arts, uses minions, [[spoiler: and attempts to hypnotize a protagonist into doing her bidding]].

* SpeakOfTheDevil: Spoken word-for-word by the Coroner when Celeste and the other Gypsies arrive before the funeral, right as he was talking with Bob Morris about [[spoiler: Jan Spavero's corpse]].
* StockSoundEffect: Downplayed, since this movie uses ''actual recorded wolf howls'' rather than generic large animal noises for Werewolves.

* TerrifyingPetStoreRat: Unlike most Werewolf movies prior to the 1980s, trained tame wolves were used to portray Werewolves rather than [[WolfMan furry make-up on the actor]]. [[spoiler: For the final fight, the wolf was swapped out for a German Shepherd, presumably to avoid injuring either the actor or the animal]].

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: For WerewolfWorks as a whole. As it premiered only three years after ''Film/TheWolfMan1941'', this movie notably does ''not'' have many of the typical pop-culture Werewolf attributes like transmittion by bite, forced transformation on the night of the full moon, or a weakness to silver bullets. Celeste also acts like a SorcerousOverlord in addition to being a Werewolf, with Lycanthropy as just ''one'' of her many weapons ([[spoiler: hypnotism being one of them]]). Lampshaded when a GenreSavvy Police Officer asks to requisition some silver bullets ([[spoiler: that ultimately aren't needed]]).

** Averted for [[spoiler: Celeste, who is the only character whose death, or whose corpse, is shown on-screen]].

* MatchCut: When Werewolf transformations aren't off-screen, these are used to show a Werewolf instantaneously transforming.

* TheButlerDidIt: Subverted. Jan Spavero, museum janitor, is [[TheRenfield Celeste's minion]] and her mole at the museum, and is the police's second suspect (they had previously ruled out Elsa via fingerprint examination), but he's innocent of murdering the Curator (though he ''did'' attempt to kill the tour guide) and [[spoiler: is [[YouHaveFailedMe done in by his boss after getting his fingerprints on the crime scene]] and drawing suspicion to her]].

* ChekhovsLecture: With the exception of the Vampire lore (which foreshadows that the Werewolf has [[TheRenfield a minion]] but is otherwise a RedHerring), ''everything'' in the expository museum tour becomes relevant to the plot.

* AchievementsInIgnorance: During the climax of the movie, Bob Morris and the police officers accidentally blunder across [[spoiler: Marie LaTour's grave, which was in a hidden crypt in the secret chamber]]. Unlike the late Dr. Charles Morris, they don't recognize the importance of it, [[spoiler: as they're too busy searching the house for a Werewolf]].

* TheCavalry: An entire squad of police officers shows up to assist the protagonists in the final fight, [[spoiler: and dispatch the Werewolf with well-aimed bullets]].

* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: Werewolves in this setting are people who use magic for VoluntaryShapeshifting into the form of a wolf, and retain their human minds and intellect in wolf form, and this magic can be taught (Celeste, the main Werewolf of the film, [[spoiler: is also a hypnotist, and attempts to brainwash another woman into becoming a Werewolf herself]]). The transformation is apparently instantaneous and [[MagicPants conveniently stows away the Werewolf's clothes]]. [[spoiler: While they are stronger than baseline humans or wolves, a sufficiently strong human can go toe-to-toe with them, and they can be killed with regular bullets]].

* {{Synchronization}}: [[spoiler: When Celeste hypnotizes Elsa, the later becomes able to feel the pain from the injuries the former suffers]].

* TheButlerDidIt: Subverted. Jan Spavero, museum janitor, is [[TheRenfield Celeste's minion]] and her mole at the museum, and is the police's initial suspect, but he's innocent of murdering the Curator (though he ''did'' attempt to kill the tour guide) and [[spoiler: is [[YouHaveFailedMe done in by his boss after getting his fingerprints on the crime scene]] and drawing suspicion to her]].

* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: Werewolves in this setting are people who use magic for VoluntaryShapeshifting into the form of a wolf, and this magic can be taught (Celeste, the main Werewolf of the film, [[spoiler: is also a hypnotist, and attempts to brainwash another woman into becoming a Werewolf herself]]). The transformation is apparently instantaneous and [[MagicPants conveniently stows away the Werewolf's clothes]]. [[spoiler: While they are stronger than baseline humans or wolves, a sufficiently strong human can go toe-to-toe with them, and they can be killed with regular bullets]].

In New Orleans is a museum of occult oddities- including Vampires, Voodoo, and Werewolves- that was formerly a house belonging to the LaTour family. The curator of the museum, Dr. Charles Morris, is preparing to publish a book on Marie LaTour, a Werewolf who murdered her husband and then disappeared; his son Bob Morris (Crane) is on a flight from DC to New Orleans to help with the project. The museum janitor, Jan Spavero, is secretly TheRenfield for Marie's descendant, a [[HotGypsyWoman Gypsy Princess]] (who is also a Werewolf) named Celeste (Foch), and notifies her about the impending publication one evening after the last tour of the day. Celeste takes objection, and decides to terminate the curator with extreme prejudice. During the last tour of the next day, Celeste sneaks in and hides in a secret chamber hidden behind a secret passage next to the fireplace in the parlor room where Marie LaTour had murdered her husband. When Dr. Morris goes into the chamber to do some more after-hours research, Celeste [[GoryDiscretionShot loudly mauls him off-screen]], with only the tour guide overhearing.

The police are called in and Charles Morris's body is recovered, then Bob and his Transylvannian girlfriend Elsa Chauvet (Massen) collaborate with the police to help find the killer. Celeste, meanwhile, tries to cover her tracks, kill off loose ends, and sabotage the investigation as much as she can.

* GoryDiscretionShot: The Curator being mauled by a Werewolf happens entirely offscreen- though other people hear the death and report it to the police. [[spoiler: Jan Spavero is later given an ExitPursuedByABear and is then mentioned as being dead]]. Neither UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode nor the special effects of the time would have allowed an on-screen Werewolf mauling.
** Averted for [[spoiler: Celeste, who is shown being shot by the police, and whose corpse is the ''only'' dead body shown on-screen in the entire film (and with an aversion of NoOntologicalInertia no less)]].

* ImpliedDeathThreat: Celeste gives the Museum Curator a VoodooDoll as one of these the evening before she murders him. He doesn't recognize it as this trope, but his secretary ''does''.

* MurderIsTheBestSolution: Celeste hears of the museum curator attempting to publish a book about Marie LaTour and ''immediately'' jumps straight to plotting murder. Presumably [[MundaneSolution just filing a Cease-And-Desist lawsuit]] would have saved her a lot of grief ([[spoiler: and the lives of herself and her minion Jan]]), but being a Werewolf probably made her too AxeCrazy.

** The tour guide when he hears the Curator being mauled to death by a Werewolf in a hidden room.

In New Orleans is a museum of occult oddities- including Vampires, Voodoo, and Werewolves- that was formerly a house belonging to the LaTour family. The curator of the museum is preparing to publish a book on Marie LaTour, a Werewolf who murdered her husband and then disappeared. The museum janitor, Jan Spavero, is secretly TheRenfield for Marie's descendant, a [[HotGypsyWoman Gypsy Princess]] (who is also a Werewolf) named Celeste (Foch), and notifies her about the impending publication one evening after the last tour of the day. Celeste takes objection, and decides to terminate the curator with extreme prejudice. When a secret passage opens, the curator curiously goes in, where Celeste [[GoryDiscretionShot loudly mauls him off-screen]].

The police are called in and the curator's body is recovered, then his son Bob Morris (Crane) and his Transylvannian girlfriend Elsa Chauvet (Massen) to collaborate with the police to help find the killer. Celeste, meanwhile, tries to cover her tracks, kill off loose ends, and sabotage the investigation as much as she can.

** The movie's thumbnail on Creator/{{Tubi}} is a generic image of a woman in a Victorian (or Antebellum Southern) gown flanked by a pair of wolves. Celeste is the only active Werewolf in the entire movie (the other one, Marie, being a PosthumousCharacter), and this movie is presumably set in the present; and judging by Marie LaTour's attire in her portrait and the expository flashback scene, she presumably murdered her husband sometime between 1870 and 1910.

* EvilDetectingDog: The cat in the museum acts visibly nervous when Celeste sneaks in to murder the curator, and curls up in a corner and hisses when [[spoiler: Jan attempts to murder the museum tour guide, only for the cat to be drawn out and foil the murder attempt]].

* TerrifyingPetStoreRat: Unlike most Werewolf movies prior to the 1980s, trained tame wolves were used to portray Werewolves rather than [[WolfMan furry make-up on the actor]]. [[spoiler: A German Shepherd is used to portray the Werewolf in the final fight]].

* CoversAlwaysLie: Almost all of the movie posters are innacurate to one degree or another. The most accurate poster, which shows Celeste casually menacing the protagonists with a wolf shadow in the background behind her (which provides the page image), depicts her as a blonde when she was an EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette in the film.

* GoryDiscretionShot: The Curator being mauled by a Werewolf happens entirely offscreen- though other people hear the death and report it to the police. [[spoiler: Jan Spavero is later given an ExitPursuedByABear and is then mentioned as being dead]]. Neither UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode nor the special effects of the time would not have allowed an on-screen Werewolf mauling.

* StockSoundEffect: Downplayed, since this movie uses actual recorded wolf howls rather than generic large animal noises for Werewolves.

* {{Fainting}}: Celeste's foster-mother faints so that she doesn't answer the question about Marie LaTour joining the tribe.

** The movie's thumbnail on Creator/{{Tubi}} is a generic image of a woman in a Victorian (or Antebellum Southern) gown flanked by a pair of wolves. This movie is presumably set in the present, and judging by Marie LaTour's attire in her portrait and the expository flashback scene, she presumably murdered her husband sometime between 1870 and 1910.

* ExitPursuedByABear: [[spoiler: Jan Spavero's death is presented this way. His body is later mentioned as being in the morgue]].

* GoryDiscretionShot: The Curator being mauled by a Werewolf happens entirely offscreen- though other people hear the death and report it to the police (and UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode would not have allowed an on-screen Werewolf mauling).

* HollywoodSatanism: Voodoo is depicted this way, with secret temples and violent occult rituals, and practiced by Gypsies (although HollywoodVoodoo is mentioned as being practiced by people in the Caribbean during the museum tour).
* HotGypsyWoman: Celeste, the local Gypsy Princess (who is also a Werewolf). This is accentuated by how she usually dresses in bodiced and petticoated dresses that resemble Hungarian folk costume.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Downplayed severely- the ''only'' time Celeste ever regrets killing someone is after [[spoiler: mauling her [[YouHaveFailedMe failed minion Jan]] after he was incriminated]]. Every other time, she remorselessly hunts and attempts to kill her prey without hesitation.

* OurVampiresAreDifferent: A Vampire skeleton is on display in the LaTour museum, with a stake through its ribcage where the heart would be. Vampire lore is apparently pretty much the standard post-''Literature/Dracula'' lore, [[RedHerring but Vampires aren't relevant and quickly stop being mentioned]].

* BrainwashedAndCrazy: [[spoiler: Elsa is hypnotized by Celeste into giving a false confession, but [[NoSell the Police see right through it]]. This hypnosis also causes Elsa to feel [[{{Synchronization}} the pain from Celeste's injuries]] in the final fight]].

* TerrifyingPetStoreRat: Unlike most Werewolf movies prior to the 1980s, tame wolves were used to portray Werewolves rather than [[WolfMan furry make-up on the actor]]. [[spoiler: a German Shepherd is used to portray the Werewolf in the final fight]].

* HumanToWerewolfFootprints: The reason why Marie LaTour murdered her husband. He found some wolf prints entering the house, and followed him right up to her.

* ReverseWhodunnit: The murderer is introduced early in the movie, and spends the rest of her subplot trying to cover her tracks.

In New Orleans is a museum of occult oddities- including Vampires, Voodoo, and Werewolves- that was formerly a house belonging to the LaTour family. The curator of the museum is preparing to publish a book on Marie LaTour, a Werewolf who murdered her husband and then disappeared. One of Marie's descendants, a [[HotGypsyWoman Gypsy Princess]] (who is also a Werewolf) named Celeste (Foch), takes objection to the impending publication and decides to terminate the curator with extreme prejudice.

When the curator's body is found, his son Bob Morris (Crane) and his Transylvannian girlfriend Elsa Chauvet (Massen) collaborate with the police to help find the killer.

* SorcerousOverlord: Despite being a Werewolf, Cecilia acts as much like this trope as she does a typical movie Werewolf. She is versed in the dark arts, uses minions, [[spoiler: and attempts to hypnotize a protagonist into doing her bidding]].

** [[spoiler: Jan Spavero is last seen alive [[ExitPursuedByABear chased by an angry Werewolf]], and is then mentioned to be dead.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Downplayed severely- the ''only'' time Celeste ever regrets killing someone is after [[spoiler: mauling her [[YouHaveFailedMe failed minion Jan]] after he was incriminated]]. Every other time, she remorselessly hunts and attempts to kill her prey.

* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: Werewolves in this setting are people who use magic for VoluntaryShapeshifting into the form of a wolf, and this magic can be taught. The transformation is apparently spontaneous and [[MagicPants conveniently stows away the Werewolf's clothes]]. [[spoiler: While they are stronger than baseline humans or wolves, a sufficiently strong human can go toe-to-toe with them, and they can be killed with regular bullets]].

* BerzerkButton: Don't publish anything about the LaTour family, or Celeste will respond with lethal force.

* ExitPursuedByABear: [[spoiler: Jan Spavero's death is presented this way. His body is later mentioned as being in the morgue.]]