Review of Lycantropus: The Moonlight Murders

For the prudish viewer, this is the distilled and mature Waldemar Daninsky who returns at 66, now a mature and successful novelist, still very much tormented by the curse of the Werewolf. Through fevers, nightmares, and murders, he seeks redemption and release from his curse looking for the platonic lady who might be able to help him. It moves away from the Gothic horror and is more explicitly metaphorical than other films of this tormented character, suggesting in initial sequence that the monster and the achiest are the products of repressive and intolerant Fascist/Nazi regimes or austere and patriarchal religious values. Underlining the plot there is a plea for tolerance and condemnation of discrimination on the basis of gender or race. Whether familiar or new to the Waldemar Daninsky there will be surprises, and the consequence of limited budget production is still endearing. I only managed to watch the film on a DVD dubbed into Spanish.