Bezenby I think this is the fifth Paul Naschy werewolf film, but who knows. This one starts out with an English fellow heading out for Transylvania to visit his parent's graves, with his cute wife in tow, only for the both of them to discover a horribly burned man lurking about the place. This film details the seventies approach to disability when the wife starts screaming bloody murder and the English guy throws a brick at the guy.At a local bar, the barman describes the entire area as being full of thieves and cutthroats and says maybe it's a bad idea to go to the old creepy cemetery that's next to the old creepy castle that the local monster lives in, but off they go anyway, which results in three local brothers robbing their car, killing the English guy, and trying to rape the Justine, his wife. I say try because Paul Naschy turns up and brutally murders two of the brothers (one by dropping a huge rock on the guy's face!).Paul of course is a werewolf with a witch sidekick and when this robber guy starts going on about revenge and involving the locals it doesn't turn out right for anyone, as more villagers end up dead, the rest get out the pitchforks and torches, and Paul has to high tail it to England so the plot can get even more stupid. I also noted that for some reason one villager had a gigantic pitchfork that was much larger than the others. Must have been compensating for something. Now Justine has quickly got over her husband being murdered and is in love with Paul, so she goes to Dr Jekyll to get him cured. In a plot move that makes virtually no sense whatsoever, Jekyll proposes that they inject Paul with some injection that will make Mister Hyde manifest in Paul (?) so that they can then isolate the evil in him and kill him. So not only has Paul got to put up with the werewolf stuff, now he's turned into a sex-crazed hedonist too!This might have actually worked out if Dr Jekyll didn't have a jealous female sidekick who wasn't happy with Jekyll trying to help out an unrequited love. Next thing you know Hyde is out rampaging around London, but then again you only get to see that if you have the uncut version as it involves ravaging hookers and whipping Justine. Best thing about this film (apart from the crazy storyline) was that any time you started to think it would get boring - it didn't! I thought things would slow down a lot once Paul got to London for his cure, but then, in the lift on the way up to his appointment, the lift broke down and trapped him with a nurse until the moon rose, causing a werewolf rampage! I love these films!It doesn't skimp on the gore and the only thing missing from the Mill Creek version is the nudity*, which you're not going to miss anyway if you watching an endless list of these films. Naschy's Mr Hyde was funny too, including the way he just exits the film without any fuss.*I'm talking crap - it's also missing the opening credits.

accattone74 What's your Jekyll doing in my Wolfman? Hey! Get your Wolfman out of my Jekyll! Naschy found a way to bring these classic characters together for a film that's a hoot from start to finish. After saving a woman from being raped, Daninsky travels with her back to London, where she hopes to cure him of his lobo-curse via her connection to the grandson of Dr. Jekyll. Unfortunately (but fortunately for us), not everything goes as planned with the cure, and Waldemar is now additionally burdened with a split personality, giving him a final MPD count of 3. The added persona's traits are that of a sadistic beast, though unlike the curse of the werewolf, Waldemar's Mr. Hyde has the sexual appetite of a Spring Break Co-Ed on amphetamines. Being both Hyde and the werewolf pretty much doubles the violence in this film, and the gore is fantastic. Naschy is having a glorious time playing the three roles, and that fact alone is enough to make this film fabulous. Mirta Miller, veteran of several Naschy films, is just marvelous here as a beautifully (and beautiful) sinister nurse.

lemon_magic I'm always up for a Paul Naschy film - he seemed to be the hardest working 3rd rate horror film lead of his era. I remember him playing 3 different characters in one of his earlier films, and here he has a go at playing both the Wolf Man AND Mr. Hyde.Unfortunately, having hit upon the (admittedly derivative) idea of having two famous horror icons appear in the same film, neither the director, the screen writer, or Naschy himself seem to be able to do anything interesting with it, at least in the public domain version I saw. The werewolf rampages are strictly by the numbers, and all Hyde ever does is leer(OK,at one point he pushes a cripple into a river).There's a weird side plot involving Dr.Jekyll's grandson and his girlfriend, who up and murders Jekyll at a crucial moment because she wants to use the "limitless power" of Jekyll's modified serum for evil instead of good (or is it because 'the deepest love can turn into the deepest hate'??) Apparently she didn't think things through, because all that gets her is impalement on some handy garden implements when she tries to boss Hyde around. (OK, that's TWO evil things Hyde does in the movie.) Anyway, every character here is dumber than a bag of hammers, and not one line of dialog rings true. This may be the fault of the dub, and I'm willing to concede that the original in Spanish might be somewhat better, but I have to judge what I'm watching, not some version of the film that might exist elsewhere. There's a numbing sameness and lack of dynamic range to the scenes, although nothing here is obviously crummy and incompetent and unpolished the way the worst Jesse Franco films can be.Still, it's been amusing watching Naschy turn killer hair, a lantern jaw, huge black eyes, and a grand total of three expressions into what appeared to be a pretty ambitious film career. Barring catastrophe, I'll continue to take the time to watch any of his films I come across.

Scarecrow-88 A wealthy businessman and his young, beautiful, trophy wife, who live in England, head into "the old country", where his ancestors once resided in the Carpathian mountains, to visit the past, will meet *unspeakable horrors*. While visiting the cemetery where his parents were buried, Emery encounters ruthless thieves attempting to steal from him, resulting in his stabbing death, Justine tries to flee but is swarmed by the brutes before she is rescued by a mysterious man dressed in black (Paul Naschy). Awakening in her savior's black castle, what will happen to her? If you like dark foreboding ancient castles made out of stone then you are in luck as this movie has a doozy. A good man cursed with lycanthropy, an old "witch" (she is described this way by the café owner prone to "foretell old wivestales"), a hunch-backed leper (yep, a movie like this has to have a hunch-backed freak to assist the scientist), and the old man who spreads spook tales to those who enter his café in the village—the Naschy homages are numerous in "Dr. Jekyll and the Werewolf". Other thieves decide they will head to the black castle to see what goodies might be worth stealing only to encounter Naschy's El Hombre Lobo in the cemetery (they get what they deserve, really—it is a full moon and the howl of the lychanthrope is loud and ominous). The village café owner calls them "demons", followers of the devil, his ravings quite amusing, falling in line with those from past Gothic horror films warning foreigners and the unbelievers of evils that await the unlearned. The film even produces the restless village folk stirred up the vengeful outsider, new to the area, who lost two brothers to the werewolf, with pitchforks and torches in hand, as a group heading to the black castle to rid themselves of the monster lurking in their midst. This results in an underwhelming confrontation between instigator and Waldemar (in human form, no less), before the film's second half transports the plot to London where we meet Dr. Henry Jekyll (the ancestor of the notorious Jekyll who successfully created a serum which created the completely evil side of his personality, Hyde), who operates an asylum, his nurse the conniving Sandra.Sandra is a rather preposterous villainess, who wants Jekyll to recreate Hyde and use this power for their own personal gain and advantage—this motivation is clearly just an excuse for Naschy to portray Hyde, and run around, albeit too briefly, contemporary London. Jekyll believes his new serum, an altered form correcting the error of his shunned late grandfather, can pit, so to speak, Hyde against the dormant lycanthrope inside, where the evil plaguing Waldemar will be vanquished once and for all, but Sandra cannot stomach the idea of the scientist she bent over backwards for using his creation for good. Sandra is also a jealous bitch upset that Henry still loves Justine and has conducted his experiments just for her benefit.The problem with the version I watched was that it is the badly cut 73 minute public domain version (which my rating is for); it clearly looks as if it went under the knife of a mad surgeon. I hope to someday see the 96 minute version and better tell what was left out the butchered cut of the film. I really liked the ending which seems to be a homage to "House of Frankenstein" where Lon Chaney Jr. and Elena Verdugo suffer an unfortunate fate out of love thanks to the full moon and the inability to control the beast within—it is heartbreaking, yet romantic, two hands held as the camera backs away showing the tragic result of the werewolf's control over man to the point that he cannot keep from killing the one he loves. With Shirley Corrigan as Justine, Jack Taylor as a wooden Henry Jekyll, and Mirta Miller as the corrupt Sandra.