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!
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!