The Fury of the Wolf Man (1972)

This is scarier then The Exorcist. This movie has a great story line. It also has great acting. More people need to see this movie. People who like horror stories will like this movie. Fury of the wolf man will scary you out of your mind. If you are looking for a really scary movie see this movie.

Waldemar Daninsky (Paul Naschy) returns from Tibet bearing a scar on his chest in the shape of a pentagram, a pentagram, a pentagram. Cursed to change into a werewolf under the full moon, he seeks help from ex-flame Dr. Ilona Ellman (Perla Cristal), who is conducting experiments on mind control, but finds his animal side taking over when he discovers that his wife has been unfaithful, unfaithful, unfaithful.Electrocuted after tearing out the throats of his wife and her lover, Waldemar is believed dead by the authorities, but Ilona know otherwise and returns him to full strength, attempting to make him her slave with the use of chematrodes, chematrodes. This can't be scientific, this can't be scientific.Fury of the Wolfman, the dubbed U.S. version of Paul Naschy horror The Wolfman Never Sleeps, appears to have suffered under the censor's scissors, for it is remarkably light on the both the blood and boobs that one might reasonably expect from such fare. However, what remains is so utterly bewildering and completely boring—easily one of Waldemar Daninsky's least entertaining adventures—that I imagine an uncut version would still be a chore to sit through.Moments guaranteed to confuse: a bunch of hippies (including a dwarf) chained up in a basement; Ilona's supposedly dead father lurking around in rubber mask and a suit of armour; bloodhounds that look suspiciously like Alsatians; and a pair of corpses inexplicably sealed up behind a wall.If you're a die-hard Daninsky fan and are determined to sit through this incomprehensible tripe, try taking a big swig of liquor every time someone repeats part of their dialogue for no reason. That should ease the pain a bit, ease the pain a bit.

A man returns from Tibet carrying the curse of the werewolf . If that wasn't bad enough his wife has been cheating on him and decides to get rid of him and get her lover to move in with her Apologies if the summary is slightly brief but I'm afraid that's only a brief part of the film . Paul Naschy once again plays Daninsky but this time he's called Welter not Waldemar . This is a bit confusing because the continuity ties in with the later THE WOLFMAN AND THE YETI . It's almost certainly but the constant referring to him as Walter does grate and probably sums up the lack of care and attention by the production team Make no mistake this is a very careless film in all aspects especially the plotting . The truth is there's subplots tacked on to one another but these subplots lack any developed transition between them and you often think you're watching a series of clips strung together very badly with the cast being the only linking continuity . There's enough ideas to keep a horror studio here in the business for years and have used them up in one go . The irony is the Daninsky films are very formulaic and repetitive

"Fury of the Wolfman" is a decent enough entry in the Waldemar series of films.**SPOILERS**Returning home from Tibet, Waldemar Daninsky, (Jacinto Molina) informs his wife Erika, (Pilar Zorrilla) about his mysterious absence, having been trapped in an avalanche for several days and finally able to go back home. When he finds out that she's been having an affair with Bill Williams, (Mark Stevens) he ends up driving away in disgust only to suffer a debilitating car accident that they planned out. Waking up in the care of Dr. Ilona Elmann, (Perla Cristal) and her assistant Karen, (Veronica Lujan) who use a special process culled from the Orient to save him. When he is suddenly implicated in a string of brutal murders around town, he finds out that he is being manipulated by the two to continue the experiments of a mentor, and tries to use the werewolf powers bestowed upon him to stop their plans before they come true.The Good News: This here wasn't that bad of a film, and did have a few good points to it. There's the really creative set-up in the story which is unique and really entertaining. The adultery one here is mainly used get more bodies into the death count, but here it comes as a great point to the film by using it as the pretext to introduce the doctor into the film who's doing the scientific studies in the background but manages to become important once that part of the story is dealt with. There's some great points with this style of the story, and the slowly-unraveling mystery about the true intent of the experiments gives it some rather nice viewing. Those scenes are among the best, as the confusion and misunderstanding for the character mixes well with the obviousness of it all to the viewer, and those are rather great fun. The film's ending half, though, is where it also gets really good due to a lot of points. This is due to the transportation of the story to a large Gothic castle, complete with the torture devices, operating rooms and the stone buildings that are part of the construction do have a great look and feel in here that are just as glorious and atmospheric as anything else attempted at the time. There's also the action that comes along, with the two werewolves having a gigantic, drag-out brawl that really destroys a lot of furniture and works in some really great excitement and enjoyment into the situation. The werewolf style mask still looks good and vicious, as well as the transformation that occurs, and this time it even gives one to the second werewolf that pops into the story, which is another big factor of the story. These here are part of the film's strong points.The Bad News: This one here doesn't have a whole lot of flaws, but they do hold the film down somewhat. The main one here is that the science behind the story is a complete fabrication and doesn't have any indication into the smartness of the storyline. It uses a complete load of scientific-sounding words that are thrown together to have something that sounds intelligent, but rather there's only a vaguely resembling a coherent statement for the film's use. With the storyline being so incredibly ridiculous, it becomes more about the illogical way it's integrated into the story, making it more of a double-flaw as it's ridiculous and thrown in such a way that there's no way it can be anything other than a major flaw in the film. The fact that the werewolf make-up looks the same is both bad and good, good being that it promotes continuity between the films and bad in that it still looks rather cheap at times, which it does here. There's times where it visibly disappears at the sleeve of a shirt or not underneath the clothes, which makes it obvious that it's just supposed to be the parts where it's going to be visible to others. There's also the fact that there's little use for the gypsies in the film to come in, which are shoe-horned in and not dealt with, which is a shame. There's also a few scenes here and there lifted from other films that are quite obvious, and are pretty easy to spot. These flaws lower the film.The Final Verdict: A rather decent werewolf entry, with only a few headaches to be derived from the rather lame and convoluted story that lowers this one. Check it out for fans of the style, werewolf or European horror in general, otherwise give this one a pass for the more consistent performances out there.Rated R: Violence, Nudity and Language