jacobjohntaylor1 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.

Rainey Dawn La furia del Hombre Lobo AKA Fury of the Wolfman (1972) is not as bad as it's rating or as the critics say it is. It's not the best film Paul Naschy has been in nor is it the best "Wolfman" type of film out there but it's a better film than it's given credit for.One of the biggest complaints I've read is voice overdubbing. The copy of the film I've seen the the voice overdubbing is fine - really good. It was synced nicely with the film. And the voices that were used to overdub with are good. I don't understand the complaints here.Another thing is is slowness - that it is. It does build very slowly and could have been a little faster by leaving out some of the things from the other science experiments and getting to the point(The Wolfman) a bit faster but overall it's not a bad watch. Towards the end we get more of the wolfman - the heart of the story.The music chosen for this film I'm not overly crazy about - it really does not fit the film to me. But that is a very minor thing.5/10

Michael_Elliott The Wolfman Never Sleeps (1972) * 1/2 (out of 4) Professor Waldemar Daninsky (Paul Naschy) is attacked by a creature in Tibet and finds himself changing into a werewolf just as he learns that his wife has taken on a lover. After being electrocuted to death, the werewolf is brought back to life by a sadistic female scientist with hopes that she can control him. This film is most widely seen under its American version known as THE FURY OF THE WOLFMAN. This here has to be one of the worst horror films ever made as it is shown P&S, has a lot of the violence/gore cut out and it's missing a few other scenes including some nudity. The uncut version, under the title THE WOLFMAN NEVER SLEEPS, is still a pretty bad movie but it's certainly the better of the two versions. No matter which one you watch you're going to witness a really embarrassing picture that screenwriter and star Naschy would blame on director Jose Maria Zabalza. It's clear that the director had no idea what he was doing and just by watching the film it seems that Naschy was telling the truth when he said that the director was constantly drunk. Many scenes are just thrown together with some of the worst editing that you're ever going to see. Many of the scenes never make too much sense and you're often struggling to understand what the story itself is trying to do. Even worse is that apparently the director didn't film enough werewolf scenes so we get clips from THE MARK OF THE WOLFMAN thrown in. Having the werewolf constantly changing looks is quite distracting to say the least. The werewolf make-up from this film isn't too bad but the transformation scenes are rather weak. In its uncut form even the violence and gore isn't all that memorable, although the added nudity is at least a minor plus. Naschy is decent in the role but he's certainly not given too much to do. The film remains somewhat watchable thanks in large part to how bad it is but because there's just an overall weird vibe about the entire thing. The stuff with the scientist makes little sense. The weird hippie-like nature is another thing that doesn't make much sense. Then of course there's the female werewolf that shows up at the end.

Scarecrow-88 Mess of cobbled together ideas and scenes(..some scenes directly lifted another previous El Hombre Lobo film to pad this movie)with corny background music, abysmal camera-work(..I read elsewhere that the director was drunk a lot during filming, and it shows), static direction(..with so many things tossed at the viewer, you'd think it wouldn't be as slow and uninvolving as it is), and full of soap opera-style melodramatics, yet overall I still found individual things from the film I enjoyed.Revered professor/scientist Waldemar Daninsky(Paul Naschy)is supposedly bitten by a werewolf in Tibet(..idea obviously lifted from Univeral's "Werewolf in London")while on an expedition, with the crew who accompanied him vanished. He finds that the pentagram mark on his chest might work as a sign of what ails him, and Daninsky goes to fellow scientist, Dr. Ilona Elmann(Perla Cristal)noted for her provocative experiments in the control of the human brain. Waldemar finds out through an unnamed source that his wife, Erika(Pilar Zorrilla)is having an affair with a man named Nevell(Fabián Conde). What he doesn't know is that the couple are secretly plotting to kill him, tampering with the brakes causing his car to hit a tree. While not dead, Daninsky seeks the help of Ilona, who will exploit his unfortunate lycanthrope condition for her own mind control experiments. Unleashing the werewolf from his chains to terrorize innocents round abouts, Daninsky accidentally electrocutes himself on a fallen power line. Ilona will later dig up his undead corpse, forcing him to do her will, with assistant/student Karen(the lovely Verónica Luján)resisting her teacher's philosophies falling for the victimized Daninsky. Karen's boyfriend, reporter Williams(Mark Stevens)will join forces with detective Miller(Miguel de la Riva)to find out the one responsible for the rash of murders and werewolf attacks plaguing the community(Ilona sends Daninsky, in werewolf form, to murder his wife and her lover). Ilona, with a reluctant Karen in tow, will continue their experiments in the notorious Dr. Wolfstein's castle, a place where many insane patients are held locked in chains, humans are harvested as plants(!), and possibly even the supposedly dead owner of the place himself walking amongst them. We will see that Ilona is a mastermind behind everything that has taken place and that her ability of hypnotic mind control is being used for criminal and immoral purposes. And, the secret of her birth rite is revealed..Such a convoluted mess as the synopsis I wrote above does yield some things I found entertaining. The old-school werewolf look of Daninsky is still my favorite next to Pierce's Univeral creation. The attacks often feature gaping flesh wounds and are often bloody. I loved Perla Cristal in the role of mad scientist, even if the character's methods are a bit unorthodox and often just plain silly(..although, she's certainly insane, so perhaps despite being a scientific genius, Ilona is not operating within a full capacity). I especially enjoyed the scene where Ilona whips Daninsky, in werewolf form, seemingly relishing the opportunity to do so..and having full command of what is taking place, demented as the situation is, Cristal displays the drunk power underneath brooding. Verónica Luján is simply the eye candy, as Daninsky's ally. There's a plot twist concerning Daninsky's condition and the affair which brought out the vicious werewolf attack on Erika and Nevell, which I found a bit out of the blue and bonkers, that just explains how out-of-control Naschy's screenplay is. Couple all this will excerpts of Daninsky's werewolf(..in a different colored shirt practically screaming at the viewer that this was from another movie)spliced into "Fury of the Werewolf" and you have an unholy affair which produces uneven results.