In 1942, Lawrence Talbot visits his estranged aristocratic father John Talbot, whom his parentage and heritage is kept a secret to him, reluctantly joins a hunting expedition with him involving the hunt for a mysterious beast where it culminates into him being attacked and bitten by said creature as well to make things more complicated, everytime the full moon arises he turns into werewolf and starts attacking where ever he goes and also years later helping a crew to investigate a story about these said werewolf attacks and sightings but unknown to him, he's actually the werewolf in question.