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Creepy meeting between the infamous Wolfman and abominable snowman from remote Tibet .Again the renowned Waldemar stricken by two demon cannibalistic nymphets that turn into Werewolf at the full moon. Atypical Daninsky film where he returns as El Hombre Lobo for the umpteenth time and once again battles enemies . Waldemar, the notorious adventurer , joins an expedition led by Lacombe (Gil Vidal) or Larry Talbot (homage to Lon Chaney Jr) accompanied by his daughter Sylvia (Grace Mills who starred ¨Exorcismo¨ as a Linda Blair-alike) , all of them to find the mythic Yeti in the Himalayas. They arrive Katmandu and after the bunch goes to Karakorum . While Waldemar along with a scout (Victor Israel) hiking the mountains, he goes into a cave where is captured by two wicked sorceresses guarding a Buddhist sculpture and becomes their sex-slave . They transform him into a werewolf setting him loose to roam the mountain where Waldemar continues a murderous rampage every time the moon is full . Later on , Waldemar meet a Buddist monk who lives in a monastery full of luminous candles , he helps him against his illness. While the expedition is captured by a sadistic bandit named Temuljin . The prisoners are given to Mongol chief named Sherkan-Kan (Luis Induni , a baddie similarly characterized to Fumanchu) , whose palace lives the perverse Wandesa (Silvia Solar). Meanwhile , Daninsky falls in love with Sylvia and she tries to cure his Lycanthropy with love and a flower (such as the first classic version ¨the Wolfman¨ by Stuart Walker with Henry Hull).

Acceptable Werewolf movie with the unforgettable Waldemar Daninsky-Jacinto Molina ,under pseudonym Paul Naschy . Continental Europe's biggest horror star again with his classic character and frightening to viewer . Jacinto Molina Aka Paul Naschy ,who recently passed away, was actor, screenwriter and director of various films about the personage based on fictitious character, the Polish count Waldemar Daninsky. The first film about Waldemar was ¨The mark of the Wolfman (1967)¨ by Enrique Eguiluz , after that , went on the successful ¨Night of Walpurgis¨ by Leon Klimovsky , ¨Fury of the Wolfman¨ , ¨Doctor Jekill and the Wolfman¨ ,¨The return of the Walpurgis¨, ¨Howl of the devil¨, ¨The beast and the magic sword(1982)¨ that was filmed in Japan and finally ¨Licantropo(1998).After ¨The craving¨ it was such a box office disaster that Jacinto was bankrupt . He was forced to turn to Japan for making artist documentaries, as he filmed ¨ Madrid Royal Palace and Museum of Prado¨ and he gets financing from Japanese producers for ¨The human beasts¨, the first co-production Spanish-Japan and followed ¨The beast and the magic sword¨ that was lavishly produced for the Paul Naschy standards.

¨The curse of the beast¨ or ¨ the werewolf and the Yeti¨ is a B series entertainment with abundant sensationalistic scenes , comic-book style and a Naif-gaudy realization . This exciting terror movie contains adventures, action , some nudism and lots of blood and gore . The movie has a bit of ridiculous gore with loads of blood similar to tomato and is occasionally an engaging horror movie full of zooms, witchery , beheading , impaling and several other things . This time Paul Nashy/Jacinto Molina exhibits little breast but he was a weightlifting champion . Here Waldemar takes on vampires and Mongols in some unforgettable fighting scenes with bounds and leaps . The picture is plenty of sadism taken from Sax Rohmer stories and Robert E.Howard's Barbarian rampages . Pretty slow going, but hang in there for the Werewolf versus witches , vampires and Mongols. In the film appears a secondary cast who starred innumerable films of Spaghetti and horror genres during the 60s and 70 as Victor Israel , Silvia Solar and Luis Induni . Good and loud cinematography by Pladevall with chillon , yellow colors in Maria Bava or Hammer style and is accompanied by a correct remastering . Colorful and exotic outdoors filmed in Valle Aran , Aragoneses Pyrinees and Bañolas. The motion picture is professionally directed by M. Iglesias Bonn , a lousy director but here he makes an acceptable film . The flick will appeal to Paul Naschy fans and terror genre enthusiast. Rating : 6, passable and amusing

In this Spanish horror movie a group of scientists travel to Tibet to try and track down the Yeti. While there one of their team is infected with lycanthropy and periodically turns into a werewolf.

This is my first exposure to the Spanish horror icon Paul Naschy, who stars in the lead role here. Seemingly Naschy made many similar films in a long career. On this basis, his back catalogue could do with further investigation. Despite being a low budget affair, The Werewolf and the Yeti throws a lot of ideas at us and certainly tries to entertain. Aside from the two title monsters there are a pair of cannibal vampire cave-girls, a wicked sorceress and a gang of violent bandits. Sadly, while the werewolf has a prominent part to play in proceedings as he goes round killing bad guys, the Yeti only appears at the beginning and the end. The snowy locations and sets are very nice too and add to the overall atmosphere.

This film's main claim to fame has to be its inclusion on the Video Nasty list. It was even one of the titles that remained on the DPP's hit-list right until the very end and so has an added notoriety. However, it really is quite difficult to work out why this should be, as despite some gory moments this is hardly a shocking film. The skinning sequence is probably the most obviously infamous but it's not particularly graphic. Rather than being nasty, this is more of a silly and schlocky film. It should interest werewolf film fanatics and should also offer something to those who enjoy the racier Euro variants on the Hammer horrors.

Here's a wacky adventure-horror film with splats of gore, a few sexy ladies and two famous monsters. Made in the 70's, The Werewolf And The Yeti was banned in Britain during the Video Nasty madness of the 80's for reasons even harder to fathom than usual, and stayed banned.

The yeti attacks some folks in Tibet before the credits have rolled, immediately establishing the pace for the film: fast! Within minutes the good guys have thrown together a major expedition and are trekking through the Tibetan mountains in an attempt to find out what weird stuff is going on up there. The answer is complicated. The superstitious sherpas won't stop raving about demons in this land, but the real problem is the shrine-guarding vampire women who like a bit of male-straddling on the one hand and snarling like hyenas as they fight over bloody entrails on the other. The hero does manage to escape from this delicate web of sex and violence, but not before he's been afflicted with the curse of werewolfism! As if life isn't complicated enough, the yeti's still at large and evil raiders are starting to attack folks indiscriminately all over the mountains. This all makes for the sensation of as much action as it sounds like it would. Somehow the film achieves a consistently tense feel, more by the portentous way that everyone talks about the situations they're in than by the actual portrayal of those situations. This isn't to downplay the considerable amount of action that there is, including gunfights, swashbuckling, dungeon torture and monster combat. But I do regard this likable film as a triumph of what's good about exploitation - getting maximum cinematic effect out of modest resources. Technically it's good too. I don't know if some mountain stuff was shot day for night, but the intense blue scenes in the snow are atmospheric, as is the oft-scary score. Note however that the use of 'Scotland The Brave' on the soundtrack over establishing shots of England is of a different kind of scary, as is a lot of the dubbed dialogue.

Macroscopic logic isn't The Werewolf And The Yeti's strong point, but few films throw together as many elements as this one does and still achieve something basically coherent, fun and with good exploitation bang for your buck. Seeing this film made me wish they still made stuff like this today.

Paul Naschy, the Spanish Lon Chaney, made 12 films as Waldemar Daninsky, and this video nasty is number eight. It was banned in Britain and never released there.

Here, he is after the Abominable Snowman, or Bigfoot as it is known in America, in Tibet. He stumbles into a sacred cave guarded by two sisters, who are also cannibals, and they use him for breeding. He kills them, but not before they turn him into a werewolf.

He begins roaming the mountain attacking the others in the hunting party. That's not the only thing they have to worry about as Sekkar Khan's (Luis Induni)bandits roam the mountain also.

The Werewolf is not all bad, as he saves Sylvia (Grace Mills) from being raped. Of course as Waldemar, he is in love with her.

After being captured by Sekkar Khan, they are at the mercy of the evil sorceress Wandesa (Silvia Solar). Will his curse allow him to save everyone? There will certainly be lots of nudity and torture before that happens! It was an enjoyable film with good music, and, yes, the Werewolf and the Yeti do meet and battle at the end.

Night of the Howling Beast (1975)

*** (out of 4)

Cheap but fun horror film has Waldemar Daninsky (Paul Naschy) traveling to Tibet to try and locate the Yeti, which has recently been spotted. He ends up in a bizarre cave with female cannibals and other weirdos and soon he's bitten by a she-wolf. The next full moon he turns into a werewolf, which eventually leads to a battle with the Yeti.

Better known as THE WEREWOLF AND THE YETI, this film certainly isn't going to win any awards for style but I really give Naschy, the writer, a lot of credit. When you go through this Daninsky series you can fully see all the short comings but at the same time you have to give the star-writer a lot of credit because he's always coming up with some pretty wild ideas that usually translates to some fun.

This film is no exception as there are all sorts of wild things going on. The rather long sequence inside the cave where Daninsky goes up against a variety of strange women is so much fun simply because of how over-the-top it is. The scenes of the females chomping on the fake looking arms is rather fun and especially if you don't take it too serious. This movie also offers up some rather nice werewolf attacks.

The film benefits from the wintry locations as it's somewhat neat seeing the werewolf run around in this setting. The attack scenes are also rather silly looking but they're mostly well-staged and features quite a bit of gore when viewed in their uncut form. The actual look of the werewolf isn't quite as good as some of the earlier films but it's still good enough and of course there's all sorts of red stuff flowing.

The Yeti looks rather bad and sadly the final fight is rather dark and poorly done but it's still decent enough to put a smile on your face. Naschy, as you'd expect, turns in a good and believable performance in his role. NIGHT OF THE HOWLING BEAST suffers from a low-budget but I think in this case it actually helps add to the "B" movie charm.

In "The Werewolf and the Yeti" we follow the renowned adventures of Waldemar Daninsky across the Himalayas as he is out on an expedition to find the Yeti.Waldemar ends up getting lost in the mountains,where he meets two cannibalistic sex starved nymphos in the cave.Sleaze comes thick and fast as Naschy becomes sex slave of the women.As a result he turns into werewolf,who wreaks havoc in the mountains.The final battle between him and the Yeti is a laugh riot.Cheesy and dumb trash with a healthy dose of nudity and a little bit of gore.One unfortunate woman gets her back skinned in the film's most gruesome scene.The acting is bad and the special effects are even worse.6 out of 10.

Having just previously watched Paul Naschy's The Werewolf Versus the Vampire Woman and enjoyed the Hell out of that one, I had the same expectation when seeing this other one in which he once again portrays Waldemar Daninsky, the Werewolf. Well, part of me was bored until Waldemar encounters two women in a cave and makes love to them! There's quite a bit of nudity not to mention perhaps a little more gore than I saw in the previous one. To tell the truth, I wasn't as enthralled by this movie as I was with The Werewolf Versus the Vampire Woman. Maybe the increase of those elements I mentioned got to me or maybe having seen mostly werewolf movies for the past two weeks, I may be a little werewolfed out. Or maybe the print was wretched. I will say no way was I completely bored by this movie so that's a plus! So on that note, I say go ahead and watch The Werewolf and the Yeti or the alternate titles of Night of the Howling Beast or La maldicion de la bestia.

Two weeks prior to me writing this user-comment, the legendary Spanish actor, writer, director and reputed sleaze-ball Paul Naschy – a.k.a. Jacinto Molina – passed away from cancer. Even though I disliked and heavily bashed a lot of the films he starred in, including this "The Werewolf and the Yeti", I was still a big fan of his work and charismatic appearance and I hope that he'll rest in peace in the hereafter.

Anyway, unlike the cool titles such as "Blue Eyes of the Broken Doll", "A Dragonfly for Each Corpse" and the more recent and criminally underrated "Rojo Sangre", this clearly wasn't the best film to pay a personal little tribute to the departed euro-exploitation star. "The Werewolf and the Yeti" is an incoherent and inept mishmash of half- elaborated ideas and generally speaking just a load of rubbish, in fact. What happens if you sent a wolf man out on an expedition to the Himalayas to hunt down the abominable snowman? A very exhilarating and pleasantly deranged exploitation highlight, you'd expect, especially if you also throw in some lurid vampire women in a cave, evil Tibetan smugglers and an ancient myth about Genghis Kahn (*). Wrong! This actually is an infuriatingly boring and imbecilic film. None of Naschy's "Hombre-Lobo" flicks I've seen so far are any good, but this is really bottom-of-the-barrel, with unfinished story lines and truly pitiably poor production values. The werewolf transformations are laughable and the special effects deserve a poor zero out of ten rating. It's basically just a series of Naschy's face gradually getting hairier. It even somewhat looks like he's having a severe heart-attack whenever he transforms. Unless I'm mistaken, I also didn't spot any Yetis, Sasquatches, Bigfoots or whatever type of snowy monsters until very late in the film. And even if it does appear, it's very difficult to tell the difference between the werewolf and the yeti. Wasn't the abominable supposed to be snow-white? The dialogs are painfully poor and the even the sleaze footage is likely to put you to sleep. By the way, you know how to recognize a film scripted by Paul Naschy because he always foresees a sequence of him having sex with beautiful woman that would usually never fall for him. Mostly, he even has sex with multiple women at once.

(*) I was quite intoxicated when watching this film, so it's possible that I made some of those story lines up myself. In that case; my apologies.

Werewolf vs. Yeti, cannibal vampire women. Maybe something got lost in the translation, but I really saw no sign of a plot. BUT I loved watching this movie! I would have given it a 10, but this movie has just turned me on what looks like thousands of other Spanish horror movies. I'm sure this CAN'T be the best! My quest begins now!!! There's something about the tone of this wacky 70s horror flick that is just missing from today's movies. I bet they had a hell of a lot of fun filming this movie. Today's movies take themselves so SERIOUS. I suppose if you've got millions of dollars riding on film, that demands seriousness. But I miss the days when making and watching movies was fun. Some may consider this a bad movie but there is no denying the fun.

While most of the 'Waldemar Daninsky'/'Hombre Lobo' Werewolf flicks starring the great late Spanish Horror legend Paul Naschy cannot really be described as masterpieces, they are all entertaining and have a certain inimitable charm that can only be found in Naschy flicks. Being an enthusiastic Naschy-fan, I must say that "La Maldición De La Bestia" aka. "The Werewolf and the Yeti" (1975) is doubtlessly the most ludicrous and preposterous, and sadly also the least entertaining of the 'Hombre Lobo' flicks that I've seen; and yet it is immensely entertaining and definitely worth watching for my fellow fans of the man.

Usually, Waldemar Daninsky (who recovers from Werewolf-curses and, often, death with every passing film) is turned into a Werewolf by an ancient family curse, or by an unlucky coincidence. In this film, Paul Naschy's most famous character is an adventurer and scientist, who joins an expedition to the Himalayas, in the course of which his colleague's sexy young daughter falls in love with him (of course). He then becomes a werewolf after being held in a Himalayan cave by two sex-hungry and cannibalistic pagan priestesses... "The Werewolf and the Yeti" is highly camp and cheesy (also in comparison to the other "Hombre-Lobo" flick, all of which have a delightful camp factor), and occasionally extremely illogical and confused. In about 90 minutes, the film includes cannibal priestesses, the Werewolf, demonic witch doctors and an insane Himalayan warlord who wants to be Fu Manchu, as well as a Yeti (with minimal screen-time). The first half is pretty tiresome, but the film catches up in the second half with tons of sleaze, gore and genuine nastiness as well as camp fun. The landscapes look as Himalayan as Barcelona, and the whole thing makes little sense, but that does in no way lessen the fun. Paul Naschy is charismatic as always and the female cast members are entirely hot.

Since the film has little to no real suspense or creepiness it is easily the least interesting of Naschy's 'Hombre Lobo' films, but it is nonetheless highly entertaining. The fact that this impossible-to-be-taken-seriously piece of camp fun was on the UK's infamous Video Nasty list of banned films once again shows the idiocy of film censors. Definitely no must-see, but warmly recommended to my fellow Paul Naschy fans.

With a title like THE WEREWOLF AND THE YETI you know what you're getting for your money - a schlock European horror that has a certain notoriety because it was banned by the UK video censors . To be honest the film has a great opening hook that caused this viewer to jump out his seat . Then we get a blast of music that doesn't really go with the film along with lurid garish titles . So far so good The film then cuts to a panning establishing shot of a city with bagpipes playing over the soundtrack which can only mean we are in one place , the home of the bagpipes and tartan - London England . It's at this point the producers of this film should forget all about werewolves and Yeti and start worrying about five million angry Scotsmen

This then cuts to an interior where two characters Professor Lacombe and Waldemar Daninsky mention photographic evidence of the Yeti via an expedition that went missing in Kathmandu . Lacombe tells Daninsky he is going to lead an expedition and wants Daninsky to come along because he " knows Tibet and speaks Nepalese " . You can't help thinking this is a goof of sorts because what's the use of knowing Nepalese if you're going to Tibet which would be behind the bamboo curtain and inaccessible to Westerners . I wonder if the makers thought Nepal and Tibet are the same place . I mean if you confuse London with Scotland

Cut to some images of vaguely oriental architecture which I'm guessing is to signify Nepal and an interior shot which could have been anywhere with the expedition members discussing getting a guide in Kathmandu . Eh ? Aren't they supposed to be in Kathmandu ? Why do characters feel the need to constantly spout that they're in Kathmandu . It merely draws the audiences attention to the fact that this wasn't filmed in Kathmandu . By the way Nepal is a Hindu country and the expedition guide looks suspiciously like a Sikh . He also calls everyone " Sahib " an Indian phrase . Note to producers : If you're trying to set a scene in Kathmandu get half a dozen Nepalese extras and get them to smile and say " Hey my friend where you from ? You want hash ? / a trekking guide ? / a sexy Nepalese woman ? " because this will be totally convincing

Cut to a jeep driving slowly along a path with a couple of stone huts by the roadside with the camera locked head on in a close shot with a couple of Oriental actors walking by . I guess this is a vain attempt to establish the action is taking place in a remote area of Nepal or Tibet . Let me guess - since this is a Spanish film this scene was shot in Spain somewhere ?

Cut to a remote village in Nepal/Tibet /Spain where the primitive natives enchant the expedition with some traditional folk dancing which I have seen and can verify its authenticity . Not from Nepal but on travel shows featuring Barbary Coast folk dances . Hmmm Barbary Coast folk dances in Nepal/Tibet ?

It becomes very clear by this point that the notoriety surrounding this film has nothing to do with any horror aspect but everything to do with the makers not bothering their backsides to research even the most cursory aspect of the narrative settings . That said it is absolutely fascinating pointing out to yourself each and every blatant geographical mistake the movie makes so there is some fun to this movie and that's not necessarily a bad thing

So we have Paul Naschy joining an expedition in a Tibetan mountain region. Or somewhere, as this movie looks like it's shot for the most part in some forest in Spain. And then we have snow. And then there's sun and plants. I don't know – it might have been shot on some distant planet in outer space were continuity errors are part of your everyday reality.

So, Paul Naschy stumbles upon some cave, enters it and finds two vampiric wenches (that's my guess) and has sex with them (both of them, at the same time, thank you very much). I couldn't tell if those sluts turned him into a werewolf, or if Naschy's character was already a werewolf to begin with. Either way, Naschy is a werewolf and he gets to wrestle around in the snow with a yeti (who just happens to wear a similarly looking werewolf costume, just like the one Naschy's wearing). And then I think this movie ended. I think I spotted an image of Buddha in this movie too, somewhere. Can't really remember.

Good Badness? I'm inclined to shout "Yes!", but for the love of Christ possessed, I can't remember why... 1/10 and, uhm, I guess, ehrr, maybe 5/10..., meaning 9/10 for being the worst piece of rubbish out of the lot, and 1/10 because I couldn't laugh with it. So, that's 10/20, which would boil down to... Aw, screw it. This movie sucks and Paul Naschy is a sleaze-ball. 1/10, and no goodies for Naschy.

Paul Naschy returns as Waldemar Daninsky, the man perpetually cursed to be turned into a Werewolf, cured, or killed over and over again forever. This time round he's heading up the Himalayas to take on vampire women, some descendant of the Great Khans, and right near the end...a yeti! I LOVE these films.

Let's get the plot out of the way: Paul this time is an explorer who heads off to the Himalayas on the flimsy pretext of finding a yeti with his loyal entourage in tow. He gets separated from the rest while looking for some dangerous pass and ends up in the company of two sexy evil women who keep him as a sex slave until he discovers them eating human flesh. While fighting them to the death, he is bitten and from then on out becomes a werewolf every time the moon rises.

This is actually quite lucky because the rest of his group have been caught by a bunch of Ghengis-Khan like warriors, the leader of whom has a really bad skin complaint that his evil medical lady insists can only be cured by draping human skin over it. Cue gory skinning scene! Paul Naschy will have to bring all his lycanthropic skills with him to sort out these jerks.

That's that out the road, so let's talk about what makes this film so much fun: you'll be clued in on how brain-melting this one is when "Scotland The Brave" plays over footage of London, then there's the hilarious transformation sequences where Naschy rolls about the ground like he's suffering from severe gastroenteritis, and the bit where Victor Isreal freaks out, runs off, screams off-screen likes he's fallen off a cliff, and yet when Nascy goes to investigate he finds footprints leading off into the distance.

You'll also spend a considerable amount of time wondering if the Yeti is even going to make an appearance, and when it does about five minutes from the end of the film, it looks almost exactly like the werewolf, which makes the last battle of the film really confusing.

Ultra-low budgets and dodgy effects aside, Nascy always delivers on the goods and therefore the film is packed with werewolf attacks, fighting and gore isn't boring for a minute. Just leave your brain fallow when watching and you'll enjoy. This was inexplicably banned as part of the Video Nasties panic and has never been re-released!

Waldemar (Paul Naschy), the renowned adventurer, joins an expedition to find the Yeti in the Himalayas. While hiking the mountains, he is captured by two cannibalistic demon nymphets guarding a remote Buddhist temple and becomes their sex slave.

This film ignores the events from the earlier films "The Fury of the Wolfman" (1970) and "Curse of the Devil" (1972), and provided an all-new origin for Waldemar's lycanthropy, having the curse transmitted by the bites of not one, but two, vampire women! The mix of supernatural creatures is certainly a good deal of fun.

The film was banned in the UK by the BBFC under the Video Recordings Act of 1984 and was featured on the "Video Nasties" list. It has allegedly never been released in the UK. But for us lucky Americans, the film is now available on Blu-ray from Scream! Factory. It is fairly bare bones, with no commentary or other features, but we do get to choose between English and Spanish, which is nice.

THE WEREWOLF AND THE YETI is really a misnomer, but then NIGHT OF THE HOWLING BEAST (the title borne by the print I watched) doesn't do it justice either as the story spans not one but several nights, none of which is more important than the other! Anyway, this isn't a bad effort in Naschy's ongoing "Waldemar Daninsky" saga - hampered slightly by the disc freezing up momentarily on four separate occasions, particularly towards the end: plot-packed though it is, the film is actually pretty straightforward compared to the others I've watched by Naschy - it is indeed livelier than any of them - and the snowy locales in which it is set are a major asset (despite the minimal budget on hand). Naschy turns in a creditable performance (though he was reportedly dissatisfied with how the film turned out), but the werewolf make-up is a matter of taste as it's certainly not scary-looking; the Yeti, then, hardly bears a mention as its function is almost incidental to the narrative and is not even given a distinguished 'look' to make it stand out during the climactic duel. The director's overall style, alas, is rather flat: the Gothic atmosphere one associates with this type of film is mostly lacking here. Apart from this, none of the characters is all that interesting (wicked sorceress Wandesa is especially annoying) but, at least, there's some gore to keep one watching (a male member of the expedition ends up impaled on a thick pole whereas a girl is skinned alive!) and the fist-fight between Waldemar and the villainous Sekkar Khan is quite energetic; there's also a welcome - and wholly gratuitous - touch of eroticism in the sequence where Waldemar meets two vampires-cum-cannibals in a cave who, apparently, also have the power to infect him with 'The Curse Of The Beast'!!

If you've seen any of Paul Naschy's other 'hombre lobo' films, you probably have a pretty good idea of what to expect from The Werewolf and the Yeti—schlocky dialogue, hammy acting, Naschy once again sporting terrible wolf make-up, some sexy Euro-totty, and a bit of unrealistic bright-red gore. In short, a fun slice of very silly Spanish monster madness.

One can only presume, therefore, that it must have been one hell of a slow day at the office when the BBFC/DPP decided to stick The Werewolf and the Yeti on the Official Nasties list: the film has its unsavoury moments, as do most horror films, but there's nothing to warrant it being lumped with likes of genuinely disturbing flicks such as Cannibal Holocaust, Faces of Death and Gestapo's Last Orgy. Any violence or sadism in The Werewolf and the Yeti is handled in such a camp manner that it's almost impossible to take offence at.

Take the flaying of sexy young scientist Melody (the gorgeous Verónica Miriel) by evil bitch Wandessa (Silvia Solar), for example: the effects are so cheap and unrealistic that one cannot help but find the scene amusing, no matter how repulsive the idea. Likewise, the sight of one of the scientists impaled on a wooden stake (ala Cannibal Holocaust) is rendered laughable by the fact that he is not only still alive, but also capable of holding a conversation with our hero.

Also providing mucho unintentional chuckles: the scene where Naschy kills a pair of semi-naked werewolf/vampire/witch women (but only after having sex with them both, of course); the ridiculous fight between Naschy and dermatologically challenged bandit/warlord Sekkar Khan (Luis Induni); and the rousing finale, in which our hero, transformed into a drooling beast by the full moon, rescues his love Sylvia (Mercedes Molina) from the abominable snowman.

It's all utter nonsense, not at all scary and certainly not nasty enough to deserve being banned, but still worth a go if you're in the mood for a bit of a giggle.

This film stands out while looking at the DPP list of Video Nasties due to its wacky title. However, that's not to say that the film itself is one of the more interesting on the list...as it's actually just a collection of ideas, mercilessly thrown together with barely any coherence or point. Many of the ideas in the film have lead to good films in their own right; here we have a plot involving a werewolf curse (well done in The Wolf Man), a hunt for the yeti (well done in The Abominable Snowman) and a sorceress (well done in many fairy tales). However, it all feels very random and the plot running through all these ideas fails to be interesting at every turn, thus making the film very boring indeed. The story itself takes place after an expedition into the Himalayas to find living proof of the mythical Yeti. Renowned adventurer Waldemar is part of the expedition, and the story picks up when he is captured by two demon women. After being turned into both their sex slave and a werewolf, he is set free to roam the surrounding land.

The plot sounds like it's going to make for a very interesting movie, which makes it all the more disappointing that this isn't. The Yeti is a creature that has lead to a load of rubbish films, including fellow Video Nasty 'Night of the Demon', and family flick 'Bigfoot and the Hendersons'. I've got to say that I came to realise during this movie that I don't like movies set in the snow very much; the location doesn't seem to make for a very interesting setting. The film is notable for the fact that it was written by and stars Jacinto Molina; also known as Paul Naschy, who is apparently a big name in Spanish horror cinema, although this the first film that I've seen from him. Despite the fact that this film was banned in the UK back in the eighties, it's not very gory; thus making it one of the disappointing entries on the list that didn't really deserve to be banned. The only real good (or bad, depending on how you look at it) scene sees a young girl skinned. Overall, I really can't recommend going out of your way to find a copy of this film. It's not easy to come by, but thankfully I didn't have to spend too much to see it.

The Werewolf and the Yeti (1977) is a Spanish 🇪🇸 horror film I recently watched on Tubi. The storyline follows a man who is captured, enslaved, and ultimately transformed into a werewolf. Meanwhile, a group searching the area for Bigfoot may encounter an entirely different kind of beast.

This film is directed by Kilma (Queen of the Jungle) and stars Paul Naschy (The Night of the Werewolf), Gil Vidal (Sputnik), Luis Induni (The Rape of the Sabines), and Verónica Miriel (The Young Dracula).

I enjoyed this movie far more than I expected. The settings, costumes, and props were surprisingly well-executed, with the mountain caves being especially atmospheric. While the werewolf transformation sequences were average, the black werewolf design was striking. The film also features a skin-peeling scene that caught me off guard, along with some unexpected nudity. Overall, it was more fun than I anticipated.

In conclusion, The Werewolf and the Yeti is a highly entertaining watch for fans of classic werewolf films or those seeking something a bit different. I would score it a 6/10 and recommend it.

Paul Naschy, who was such a mainstay in Spanish horror - he was their answer to Cushing, Chaney Jr and Lee - made a name for himself as Valdimar Daninsky, probably the unluckiest man in the world. Although Daninsky's backstory often changed with each film, he was forever cursed with lycanthropy. His wolfine look didn't qiote manage the consistency or smoothness Jack Peirce gave Lon Chaney Jr throughout the forties, and the transformations are always lacklustre.

Yet Naschy, who wrote and directed most of his werewolf films, had much in the way of enthusiasm for the genre, and for writing his Daninsky's success with ladies!

Naschy gives very earnest performances (understandable, given his characters and their chilling affiliations) but this robs Daninsky of much in the way of personality. His films are very often dubbed, so that must take some of the blame. For enthusiasm and commitment to the genre, it's hard to fault productions like this. That they remain unpolished and contradictory can either bring ridicule or a further charm, whichever appeals to the viewer.