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Werewolf Woman
A woman has dreams that she is a werewolf so she goes out and finds men. She proceeds to have sex with them and then rip their throats out with her teeth. She eventually falls in love but then she is raped and her lover is murdered so she goes out for revenge.
Release : | 1977 |
Rating : | 5 |
Studio : | Dialchi Film, |
Crew : | Director of Photography, Director of Photography, |
Cast : | Annik Borel Howard Ross Dagmar Lassander Pietro Torrisi Elio Zamuto |
Genre : | Horror |
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Best movie of this year hands down!
Powerful
I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.
Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.
I am so sick of the sad morality of typical horror fans who Jes love those predicable ultra violent films & are abhorred by nudity- sorry you are a bunch of 13 year old girls praying for a scary PG-13 Film.And this is not that. 1st of all Ann Borel is one of the most exquisite women ever to appear in film. 2ndly the style of this film is in fact quite modern ie Penny Dreadful -current Showtime "serial"style. The "werewolf" concept has been modified. There is a "traditional werewolf" portrayed in the opening segment but for most of the film the she were-wolf "Daniella" is simply cursed with the werewolf blood of her great grandmother. In addition -She is tormented by a rape -and disturbed -sadly by sex after that until she finds a good man & happiness. Then she is brutally gang-raped & finds revenge. But this is not a spoiler of the end!!!!!!! Literally worthy of HBO. But then Ann Borel is a beautiful woman & way too much for most of the other reviewers who just love those pg-13 horror films made for teenage girls. If you love Dario Argento or Jesus Franco you will love this film. Of course a dubbed from Italian Film will appear to be poorly acted - but at least you don't have to read subtitles to watch this. A great classic - a long forgotten film beauty. Easily owned on DVD for less than $10 from the 50 Sci-Fi Movie Classics Collection on Mill Creek. Seriously 50 other movies too!!!
"La Lupa Mannara" aka. "Werewolf Woman" of 1976 is a film with a highly promising title, but, sadly, the film itself is pretty far away from being a must-see for my fellow Italian Horror buffs. You won't hear me say that Rino Di Silvestri's film is entirely bad - it has its stylish moments, and the first half is actually great fun to watch (though the fun is unintentional). The film also profits from an exceptionally exhibitionist leading actress, Annik Borel. However, the film, which has no real plot (at least no linear one) often makes no sense at all, and it drags incredibly throughout the mostly superfluous second half.Daniella (Annik Borel) has strange dreams about a dancing around naked in the night before turning into a Werewolf Woman. Since she was a raped as a girl, Daniella is afraid of men. Then, when her sister (cult siren Dagmar Lassander) comes to visit with her husband, Daniella suddenly feels attracted to the husband and subsequently turns into a Werewolf Woman herself... or something. The storyline really doesn't make the slightest sense, which makes the film a lot of fun to watch throughout the first half. The leading character Daniella is some schizophrenic mixture of frigid hysteric and lusty nymphomaniac, who occasionally turns into a werewolf woman. Director Di Silvestri chose to make up for the plot-holes with a lot of of female nudity, which works fine for me. There are also some pretty well-done gore moments. The film is never even slightly suspenseful or creepy, but it is very entertaining in the beginning. Also, there are no attempts to hide that this is a slice of sleaze, the camera often does close-ups on the Miss Borel's private parts for the simple heck of it. I'm not complaining. Then, for some reason, Di Silvestri chose to make the film longer by completely changing the direction in which it was going. While Daniella is, at first, a typical werewolf, who cannot help but follow the urges of her curse, this suddenly changes when she meets a guy (Howard Ross, who was in Fernando Di Leo's "Il Boss" of 1973). Suddenly, she goes back to normal again, and the subsequent part of the film does not at all go in hand with the first half. It gets pretty damn boring after a while; all things considered, it probably would have been better for this 99 minute film to be only 70 minutes long. At the end, they even want to make us believe that the absurd story (if one can call it that) is based on true events. "Werewolf Woman" has some redeeming qualities; my fellow Italo-Horror fans can give it a try. However, if you wanna watch Italian Horror/Exploitation cinema from the 70s, there are hundreds of films that you should see before seeing this one.
Yes, The Werewolf Woman is all those things previously discussed: it's not about a werewolf really, it is emphasizing gore and sex - especially sex - far more than horror/genre devices and techniques, it has at times a pretty incomprehensible plot, and most importantly it is a whole lot of fun in a so-bad-its-good way. I thoroughly enjoyed this Italian horror film about a statuesque, blond, busty babe who has ancestors that were werewolves or something like that who begins to have recurring dreams based more aptly on her sexual repression. Well, she turns into something not quite determinate by the film's end, but what we get is a fun trip into bad film making, Italian sleaze, and all that makes exploitation films so enjoyable. Werewolf Woman is anything but predictable and it has some provocative scenes as well. The acting isn't stellar by any means, but the lead Annik Borel is just lovely and a pillar of voluptuous pulchritude. She heaves, she sighs, she rips her blouse off all the time. As for the horror elements, well, they are a little less than what you might expect with a film with this title, but all in all, this is a product of the Euro horror film trash/sleaze of the seventies - my favourite decade for bad films that are fun to watch!
"Werewolf Woman" is a watchable yet surprisingly werewolf-less werewolf movie.**SPOILERS**Tormented by strange nightmares, Daniella Neseri, (Annik Borel) and her actions are worrying her father, Count Neseri, (Tino Carraro) who figures that a strange amulet she keeps with her which depicts a ancestor with a striking resemblance to her is the cause. While trying to recuperate, her sister Elena, (Dagmar Lassander) arrives with her husband Fabian, (Andrea Scotti) and bring back her past behavior. As she gets more and more unbalanced, she receives more and more panic attacks, leading her family to believe that she might be brain-damaged. Managing to escape, she begins leaving a trail of bodies behind with almost animalistic wounds on them. Discovering that she has channeled her ancestor's spirit, who was a vicious werewolf, and is using her powers to exact revenge for a vicious crime committed against her as a child, and her family race to stop her.The Good News: This is a nicely decent werewolf film. The film's best strength is the plot, which is kind of intelligent at a glance. There's an actual story about a woman's descent into madness through the delusion of a dream, and while often cheesily executed, it's still surprisingly good and more than most similar films would have. This is mostly apparent in the ending part, where the tone changes from the mildly entertaining dangerous-werewolf-woman story and develops a romance the only way it's possible to do so. The differences account mostly to the different forms of abuse she dealt out due to the positions put into, while the second half is about the many forms of punishment she takes before fighting back. That also makes the film a little more brutal and graphic. There's a couple of really bloody neck rips, a really bloody ax in the forehead, a knife stabbed in the stomach, a couple are set on fire and one where she repeatedly smashes a driver's head against the steering wheel, causing the horn to honk again and again while bleeding profusely over it. To see these kinds of unnatural kills in a werewolf movie is a lot of fun and really makes them quite extraordinary and all the more fun. It also delivers in the exploitation areas, with lots of nudity, sex with lots of biting and even a disturbingly brutal rape scene at the end. Any film that opens with a beautiful, voluptuous nude woman dancing at night in a circle of fire has the perfect feel from the outset. It also has a short scene where a woman peeks at a couple having sex and touches herself. This is one of the sleaziest scenes ever. It's quite shocking to see a woman sneak into a hallway while visiting someone's house, opening the bedroom door of a couple she barely knows and watch them have sex while pleasuring herself. This is the highlight of the film, and in conjunction with the several other sex scenes present throughout, amps up the sleaze quite highly. While still being fast enough to keep the attention on the film, this is a quite watchable film.The Bad News: This has a couple of problems that do lower the film. One of the worst is that the titular creature looks quite atrocious. The titular creature is bad, as this wolf-woman is only covered with a thin covering of fur on the body, nether-regions and her breasts and new prosthetic nipples clearly show through. However, despite the werewolf fur being patchy, the makeup is actually pretty effective in close-up, with the werewolf-woman having quite frightening red eyes. Despite this, in majority it has a very bad look that only elicits laughs rather than chills. The next big thing wrong with the film is the romance inserted into the film. Beginning with a potentially intriguing shot of her shooting at him while he's high atop a bell tower, but then he immediately executes a big stunt fall as much laughing and hugging on the big air mattress follows. From there, it then goes into "love-montage-overdrive" as it actually has scenes of them frolicking on the beach in the sunset interspersed with scenes of him diving through saloon windows. Aside from the question as why there was never anyone else ever on this movie set and what happened to the movie that stunt-guy was shooting, the fact that it's even included in the middle of a horror film of such a sappy and pace-killing sequence is quite hard to sit through. There is a purpose, but it could've been trimmed down a lot more and still gotten the point across. There's no reason why the frolic on the beach has four different spots inside, broken up by the other scenes, and it could've been better-edited. The last big gripe is that there's really no werewolf at all in the film. The only time it even appears is in the beginning for the first ten minutes, and after that, nothing. Some deaths are werewolf-ish in style, but it's still not the same. However, that alone might be the film's biggest fault, as it's still watchable.The Final Verdict: Despite not having a werewolf in a werewolf movie, this is still a watchable film that manages to entertain. Hardcore werewolf fans should exercise caution, as a traditional werewolf isn't in the film, while more adventurous werewolf and European horror fans are advised to take a chance but don't expect anything to great.Rated UR/NC-17: Full Female and Brief Male Nudity, Graphic Violence, several sex scenes, Language and a Rape scene