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The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Newlyweds Imre (José Marco) and Justine (Shirley Corrigan) travel to the Carpathian mountains of Transylvania for their honeymoon, where Imre intends to visit the graves of his murdered parents (the man sure knows how to show his new wife a good time). Ignoring warnings from a superstitious local who tells them that the cemetery is a place of evil, the couple are attacked by a gang of local villains that try to break into their car. Imre is stabbed to death, and Justine narrowly avoids being raped when Waldemar Daninsky (Paul Naschy) leaps to her assistance (crushing one guy's face with a rock in the process).Waldemar carries Justine to his castle, which is also home to a leprous man who has zero bearing on the plot, and an old lady whom the locals believe is a witch, and who tells Justine of Waldemar's 'illness': whenever the full moon rises, he turns into a werewolf!!! After Waldemar, in hairy form, kills several more villagers, a rabble of pitchfork wielding locals hack off the old woman's head, stick it on a pole, and proceed to storm the castle. Waldemar and Justine sneak out the back door and flee to London, where they enlist the help of Dr. Jekyll (Jack Taylor), whose infamous grandfather's personality-altering serum might be able to release Daninsky from his curse.The sixth film in Paul Naschy's Waldemar Daninsky series, Dr. Jekyll vs. the Werewolf is just as silly as the title suggests, offering up all manner of Euro-monster-mash madness. Naschy not only sports one of his more impressive looking werewolf make-ups, but also looks sufficiently slimy as Mr. Hyde, whose personality he adopts when injected by Jekyll's serum. The daft plot also includes a treacherous assistant for Jekyll in the form of Sandra (Mirta Miller), sees Hyde enjoying enjoying London's swinging nightlife (which allows for some particularly hilarious gyrating from a podium dancer), and provides several excuses for some cheesy gore.N.B.: There are three edits of this film doing the rounds. My middling rating of 5/10 is for the heavily edited Spanish version that came as part of my Mill Creek Pure Terror box-set, and which is notably bereft of any gratuitous nudity (what's a Euro-horror without some boobs to go with the blood?). The US edit, however, does feature some nudity in the last half hour, while the fullest cut—the German version—delivers even more bare flesh, with Justine's breasts getting an airing during her attack, and Waldemar's werewolf tearing open his victims' clothes before tearing out their throats, all of which undoubtedly adds to the fun.

Dr. Jekyll vs. the Werewolf (1972)*** 1/2 (out of 4)Waldemar Daninsky (Paul Naschy) falls in love with the beautiful Justine (Shirley Corrigan) who convinces him to travel to London to see if Dr. Jekyll (Jack Taylor) can cure his curse of turning into a werewolf. Once in London Jekyll's evil assistant injects Daninsky to where he turns into Mr. Hyde. I've now seen three different versions of this film. The Spanish "clothed" version was a highly entertaining gem. The American "nude" version brought a little added sleaze and T&A to the film. Now, the third version from Germany was just recently found and is making its way through various fan boards and it features extended nudity, which just takes this film to a whole new level and actually makes it even better. Even though this print is in Spanish without any subtitles, I've never enjoyed this film more and I think the added dirty bits really makes this one of the sleazier Spanish films from this era.With this Germany version, the film just contains a very perverted and sinister feel to it that's not in any other version. It really does take the material and gives it a much darker approach, which is very much a positive and especially when we've already gotten some excellent atmosphere from director Leon Klimovsky. Another great benefit is that Naschy is at the top of his game here. No matter which version you watch, the werewolf here is without question one of the best looking in the series and it also features some of the most graphic violence. There's plenty of blood flowing around for fans of that type of thing. The actor also does a marvelous job in the role of Hyde and this is especially more true when you see the darker, more perverted version. Corrigan makes for one of the more memorable leading ladies in the series and it's great fun getting someone like Taylor on board. The film also benefits from some very effective scenes. One includes the scene where the woman is attacked by three hoods. Another includes her looking down from her window at her new love who is in his werewolf form. Then, of course, there's the werewolf hitting the streets of London. Seeing Naschy running around the swinging style of London in the 1970s is just a wonderful sight. DR. JEKYLL AND THE WEREWOLF is a "fun" Gothic film even if you watch the non-nude version. You watch the American version and it's just as much fun with the added nudity. However, to get the full impact one really needs to find the German cut as all the added stuff just makes it so much more fun.

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.

Paul Naschy has been playing tortured Polish werewolves since 1967, the high watermark being 1970's Werewolf vs the Vampire Women. Made a year later Doctor Jekyll and the Werewolf, if not exactly in the same league is certainly entertaining. After her fiance is murdered by thuggish villagers Justine is saved from death by loner Waldemar. A man with `an illness' Waldemar is of course the hairy side of the title, although the sadistic local villagers seem more violent and pose more of a threat than the beast he becomes. After every distant relative and friend of his has been decapitated or murdered by these apeish normals Waldemar heads off with Justine to a post- swinging London. There he turns to the grandson of Dr Jekyll who tries to help him out by somewhat illogically turning him into a pasty faced eye ball rolling `new' Mr Hyde. Soon all hell breaks loose thanks to Waldemar's triple personality. Let loose on London there is the kinky Mr Hyde who wields a mean whip, and a werewolf attacking Londoners more than a decade before An American Werewolf in London. Despite the Madrid-ish look to some of the London scenes some parts were indeed shot in `Londris', Blimey! Naschy and director Klimovsky found a good locale in Soho, London's notorious red light district back in the days of outdoor bordellos, the neon windmill of the Windmill theatre and sex -education documentary Love in Our Time playing in theatres. Theres a tale Naschy likes to tell about filming these scenes- while dressed as Mr Hyde some Soho regulars, not realising a film was being shot heckled who they thought to be a madman dressed in Victorian clothes. With the shot ruined `Mr Hyde' promptly chased the pesky raincoat dwellers with his cane. Compared to Werewolf Vs the Vampire Women which was a hit world-wide, Dr Jekyll was only fleetingly released in the US and UK, and today can only be found on tape from American public domain companies, releases drawn from badly transferred and tatty looking prints that can't possibly do this 70mm scope production justice. A real melting pot of a film, eclectic doesn't come close- Justine's fiance is built up as a major heroic character, but in a Psycho fashion is shockingly murdered half an hour in, then we settle down for a traditional werewolf picture, then suddenly this becomes a Mr Hyde picture with swinging Sixties overtones before the furballs and claws are brought back for the discotheque set climax. All this was obviously done to avoid routine (this was Naschy's sixth werewolf film). Unfortunately the same factors that made the Werewolf Vs the Vampire Women and the `groovy' Dracula Vs Frankenstein breath taking, seem plodding and unfocussed in Doctor Jekyll and the Werewolf. However the London scenes, the enraged teddy of a werewolf and Naschy's unusual looking Mr Hyde supply the film with more than its fair share of memorable moments, definitely enough to justify digging this up from the grave marked `Spanish horror cinema RIP', its certainly a better film than its obscure reputation suggests.