The Fury of the Wolf Man (1972)

Overrated

I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Our favourite pie-eating lycanthrope is back, and this time he's got a different origins story. The explanation this time round is that Paul got himself bitten while leading some expedition into the Himalayas, and that a Yeti bit him (?). A doctor at the local university he works at swears she can cure him, but before she can Paul finds out his wife is cheating, gets all hairy, kills the lover and his wife and then stupidly electrocutes himself to death. Only he's not really dead of course. The lady doctor reveals that she's even more mental than a Greggs-addicted werewolf, with her human/plant people in the basement of her mad doctor castle, and the crazy people chained up, and the mind control experiments, and the weird guy in the mask. Not to mention the guy who pretends to be a suit of armour, the hippies who are partying everywhere, and the hilariously dubbed female sidekicks. Paul's as confused by all this as the audience, so luckily he manages to decimate most of the cast before the end of the film. I'm still not too sure what that doctor's plan was, but Paul basically hooks up with her assistant while the assistant's boyfriend, who is a journalist, does a bit of outside investigating to break up all the insanity involved Paul Naschy. All the above is proof that this is yet another highly enjoyable Spanish Werewolf film, with plenty of hilarity to keep you going. My favourite bit was when the hippies try and subdue Paul, and he goes mental with an axe and murders about four of them. Slight overreaction there, Paul. There's also a werewolf versus werewolf battle at the end for good measure, set to the sound of the Tardis for bizarre reasons. I couldn't help but wonder why Naschy always attacks people, bites out their necks, and wanders off. It's like he momentarily thinks he's a vampire, goes for the jugular, gets a mouthful of blood, thinks to himself 'Oh, that's right - I'm a werewolf', then wanders off in a confused state. And don't forget about that Yeti - I look forward to seeing Paul tackle him in The Werewolf and The Yeti!Oh - nearly forgot the bit where Paul invades someone's home, sets a guy's legs on fire, then spends most of his time trashing the kitchen!

the story was decent enough,, the acting okay. The major problem I had with this movie is that it moved at a snails pace, like you couldn't wait for it to be over. our story goes something like this.. a man comes back from the mountains in Tibet and somehow he is the only one affected, he is cursed with a pentagram of the werewolf. so upon his return he finds out that his wife has been cheating on him,, well after promptly disposing of her, he is captured by a mad female scientist , she used all sorts of stuff on him and her many other prisoners there, she tries to control his brain and do whatever she likes.. an interesting side bit for me was the relationship between the mad woman's assistant and her boyfriend who is investigating the whole mess. it's not nowewhere near the most wretched thing I ever seen just way to slow for my tastes.

You may have seen the cheap cut American version of "Fury of the Wolfman". The uncut version may not satisfy you, but at least we see it all.This is the fourth in the series, but there is a continuity problem with that, and within the film itself. It seems to jump around with no logic, but that can be attributed to all the problems this film had with writing, editing, and direction.Maybe it would help to regard it in the tradition of Dali and Luis Buñuel, and consider it a surrealistic classic. There is weird science, failed experiments locked in a basement, and a doctor (Perla Cristal) who apparently wants to be ravaged by a wolfman.Her assistant, Karen (Verónica Luján), also has her designs set upon Daninsky. Is it love, love that will allow her to kill the wolfman? Not great, but not bad.

Spanish horror icon Paul Naschy stars in this, one of his weakest werewolf films... but bear with me for a moment. Most people will be familiar with it under its most common television title, THE FURY OF THE WOLF MAN, and there have been many home video versions of it over the years. If you want to be serious about giving it a fair shot though, the most workable edition I've seen of it goes by the title THE WOLF MAN NEVER SLEEPS, and it's an unedited and complete European version which restores a couple of disturbing scenes and contains the original nude shots which are missing from FURY's print. It is also letterboxed.Naschy plays Waldemar Daninsky, returning home from a trip to Tibet only to find out that he's contracted a werewolf curse and that his wife has been having an affair. He takes care of her and her lover while in animal form, but then becomes a guinea pig for a sexy woman doctor and her female assistant. Apparently, the doc attempts to "tame" the werewolf, and there is a very strange sado-masochistic love scene between her and the hairy and fanged Daninsky who is under her trance, at least in the original version. Ultimately we get two werewolves for the price of one as Daninsky battles a she-wolf! The biggest problem with the movie is that the director (according to Naschy's claims) was often drunk, and the results are indeed rather incoherent. When watching THE WOLF MAN NEVER SLEEPS copy, it's not quite as difficult to make out what's going on, though the editing remains atrocious in spots. Worst of all is occasional non-matching footage of Naschy's ravenous werewolf swiped straight from another previous film (LA MARC DEL HOMBRE LOBO, aka "FRANKENSTEIN'S BLOODY TERROR") and mixed into this one without any sensible reason! The wolf's clothing changes from black shirt to white and back again, as does his demeanor; one moment the wolf is walking around lethargically in a hypnotic trance from FURY, next he is growling and running around savagely from BLOODY TERROR. Really bizarre. *1/2 out of ****