Starring Paul Naschy, Perla Cristal, Veronica Lujan, Miguel de la Riva, Jose Marco
Directed by Jose Maria Zabalza
(actor & director credits courtesy IMDB.com)
After returning from Tibet with a bite that's transformed him into a werewolf, a scientist seeks help from a colleague who's been performing secret brain experiments and plans to dominate his will.
Another Paul Naschy vehicle in which he plays the werewolf Waldemar Daninsky, and also wrote the screenplay, much of the film transpires within a gloomy castle, where Daninsky finds himself trapped with Cristal's many human experiments and her sympathetic young assistant (played by Lujan). Cristal gives a good performance as the cool calculating Ilona Ellman, and there's plenty of action with Daninsky transforming several times, and wielding an axe when trying to break out of the castle and deal with those in his way. However, what the picture lacks is atmosphere, without any eerie staging, memorable photography, or any special quality to the score by Angel Arteaga and Ana Satrova. There are some shocks, particularly when Daninsky demolishes a wall and finds half-eaten bodies behind it, and a showdown between Daninsky and another monster at the climax was welcome, but would not call this one a favorite.
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