I agree with Rick on the costume designer thought, and it's a pretty valid one. It's not something audiences would consciously notice, but it works, the light-to-dark business. I'd read the "Saneman" concept years ago-- surely not Professor Dillard? Where would I have read it? Was it published anywhere accessible?-- and now, of course, see it every time I watch the movie. It IS an "odd" name, and why, indeed, was it chosen over Smith or Jones or Llanwallaghouafnyx unless to underscore some point?

The theory and the movie would work better, I think, if the movie didn't have a visible werewolf until the very end... or even the on-screen gravedigger's death or Larry's footsie transformation. But that's a Val Lewton movie, not a Universal. (And the concept didn't much work when Siodmak tried it in Bride of the Gorilla, so screw it.)

Hey, Skelly! What "angry input"? Why you no good %&*#$! ornery $%*#&^!!! I jes' LOVES dat ol' debbil subtext!