The Fury of the Wolfman
The fifth appearance of Paul Naschy's burly werewolf character Waldemar Daninsky (following Frankenstein's Bloody Terror), this film finds Waldemar returning home from Tibet, where he was first afflicted with his beastly curse. After making cutlets of his cheating wife and her lover, he is accidentally killed, then brought back to life by a sadistic lady scientist (Perla Cristal) who likes to beat him savagely and keeps her less fortunate subjects' severed body parts strewn about the house. Waldemar eventually escapes the laboratory to slay a few local kids before coming face-to-face with his late wife, who has also been transformed into a werewolf by Cristal. ~ Cavett Binion, All Movie Guide
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Product Details
| UPC: | 089218305992 |
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| Release Date: | February 19, 2002 |
| Format: | DVD |
| Genre: | Horror |
Review
Few will argue that this Spanish werewolf flick should be placed among the pantheon of classic lycanthrope films, but The Fury of the Wolfman is a great "bad" film that resembles a conglomeration of better horror efforts. Paul Naschy stars as the picture's title character Waldemar Daninsky, a kindly scientist who resembles Claude Rains until his comical transformations. This effort marked Naschy's fifth appearance as this hard-luck character. Special effects are minimal and the aforementioned transformations are done in the same manner as the 1941 Universal classic The Wolf Man, but instead of being frightening, Naschy's werewolf comes across like a live-action version of the Tasmanian Devil. This works best at the film's climax as Naschy and his cheating wife both transform and do battle. The script -- written by Naschy under his real name Jacinto Molina -- is an amusing patchwork of better films as it incorporates the werewolf story, a mad scientist drama, and even an Island of Lost Souls homage that includes a gloomy castle full of human experiments. Naschy's scientist even claims that his change into a wolf may be because he was bitten by a Yeti! Funniest of all is the badly dubbed dialogue that is ripe with unintentional laughs including a hilarious scene in which Naschy begs his ex-lover-turned-evil-mind-control-expert (Perla Cristal) to operate on him to cure his lycanthropy: "For the sake of the love we had for each other, do it," Naschy pleads, to which Cristal quickly replies, "Yes, I will -- but you have to promise to act like a real man." ~ Patrick Legare, All Movie GuideCredits
| Name | Role |
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| Perla Cristal | Actor |
| Jacinto Molina | Actor — Waldemar Daninsky |
| Jacinto Molina | Director |
| Jose Maria Zabalza | Director |
| Jacinto Molina | Screenwriter |
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