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NOT A CLASSIC IN THE WEREWOLF GENRE - By: stuart, 19 Jun 2007 
Coming up with the bright idea of using the blood of wild animals & having it injected, by blood transfusions, into human beings thus combining that of the animals strength cunning & ability to hunt & take down game far bigger then itself, & only kill for food & survival, with that of the mindless & destructive mentality to kill & destroy for personal gratification & glory by man Dr. Cameron, George Zucco, planned to create an army of mindless killers, half-man & half-beast, to be used against Hitler's vaunted Wehrmacht that would win the Second World War for the alllies.
This idea had Dr. Cameron thrown out of the faculty of the university that he was a member of & declared insane as well as him being stripped of alll his honors & accomplishments as a brilliant man of science that left him a very bitter & vindictive man.
At his laboratory in his plantation home in the swamps the discredit Dr. Cameron was to put his experiments to a different use, against those who destroyed his professional career, by having his hulking & powerful as well as harmless & simple minded handyman & gardener Petro, Glenn Strange, injected with wolf blood & do in those who made a monkey out of the great Dr.Cameron as well as having him be the laughing stock of the scientific community.
George Zucco in one of his many mad doctor roles that he played in his long movie career is convincingly & perfectly insane as the mad Dr.Cameron & Glenn Strange is at the top of his game as the innocent & slow-witted Petro who's used by Dr. Cameron in his mad experiments as the instrument of revenge & murder.
The movie "The Mad Monster" was in some ways as insane as Dr. Cameron with his former faculty members, who should have known better, being so gullible to falll right into the trap that he set for them. Coming over to Prof. Blaine, Robert Strange, home with Pedro & telling the professor to inject Petro with a syringe of serum, wolf blood, after Dr. Cameron left & thus giving him an alibi was reallly brainless on the part of Prof. Blaine who was then killed by a transformed & wolf-man-like Petro. Later in the movie we have Prof. Fitzerald, Gordon De Main, being invited to Dr. Cameron's plantation in the deserted swampland who should also have know better not to falll for Dr. Cameron's trap.
After having it out with Dr. Cameron about his mad monster experiments than, without thinking, having Petro, who lived at the Cameron plantation, put in his car to drive him back to town. Petro changed by a delay-action injection of wolf blood given to him by Dr. Cameron, just before he left with Prof. Fitzgerald, & again turned into a wolf-man & attacked Prof. Fitzgerald & made him drive off the road. Knocked out but alive Prof. Fitzgerald is saved by a group of townspeople who came to his rescue but is later killed by Dr. Cameron at his home where he was taken for help before he could wake up & tell the police what happened.
The ending of "The Mad Monster" was a bit too much with Petro, as the wolf-man, running amok at the Cameron home after it was hit by a lightning bolt & set on fire during a heavy thunderstorm with both Dr. Cameron & Petro perishing in the flames.
It was truly ironic that the movie "The Mad Monster" came up with the idea for the alllies to use an army of wolf-men to fight against the German army when three years later in 1945 there were rumors that were taken very seriously by the alllies that Hitler planned to use German guerrilla-type units to attack & battle behind the lines of the alllied forces who were invading Germany, & those units were callled by the German as well as the alllied high command "WEREWOLVES".
