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It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

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, the werewolf sensation of Spain, gets to strut his stuff and expand as an actor in this Leon Klimovsky film. Sure, we're use to seeing Paul play Waldemar by now but he gets to branch out and show off his acting chops by also playing the sinister Mister Hyde in this film as well.The lovely Shirley Corrigan travels to Hungary with her husband (Jose Marco) to visit his parent's resting place but when their car is about to get stolen, Jose intervenes and is promptly murdered. Since Shirley Corrigan is all kinds of sexy, the murderers have other plans for her but Paul Naschy intercepts their decadent intentions and saves the blond beauty. Of course, as Waldemar, Naschy changes into a wolfman during a fullmoon and when Shirley spots his transformation she gets a plan.Shirley takes Paul to London to visit a friend, Dr. Jekyll (Jack Taylor) who is the only man who can help Paul defeat his curse of lycanthropy. Dr. Jekyll has always had a thing for Miss Corrigan which upsets his raven-haired helper, Mirta Miller. When the good doctor spurns Mirta in order to help Paul and Shirley, Mirta kills Dr. Jekyll and plans to use Waldemar as a tool for mayhem. She uses a serum devised by Jekyll to turn Waldemar into Mister Hyde but when the fullmoon is out, Hyde's influence clashes with the lycanthropy and makes Paul Naschy one mean dude.STORY: $$$ (The story is quite interesting, tackling two legendary horror figures in one setting. As with most of the Waldema films, Paul Naschy gets plenty time to showcase his animal side while countering that with a sensitive, tortured side. Also, the version I watched, from Mill Creek in the PURE TERROR 50 MOVIE PACK, seemed a bit too cut which affected the story. Out of the blue Waldemar's old helper is beheaded without any leadup to the attack. Something was missing there).ACTING: $$$ (Paul Naschy shines as usual. This may be his best performance since he is able to branch out. I'd even go so far as to say he does an even better job as Mr. Hyde in this film than the werewolf. Shirley Corrigan is exceptional as always and Jack Taylor is terrific in his role as Dr. Jekyll. Mirta Miller is effectively calculating as the doctor's assistant).NUDITY: None (However, this is the Mill Creek version and they typically get the edited adaptations of Spanish horror films. In the same 50 Movie Pack is a great little film titled HORROR RISES FROM THE TOMB, which I own on VHS, and this film is heavily edited. In the unedited version of HORROR RISES FROM THE TOMB there is an abundant supply of nudity so there is probably some skin in other versions of this film as well. Shirley Corrigan, the female lead, isn't a shy actress. She's done a lot of nudity, including the terrific little gem THE DEVIL'S NIGHTMARE).

This is the first Waldemar Daninsky movie I've seen, even though it is (the box says) the fifth in a series (perhaps IMDb's years for the titles are off?). I bought it primarily because I've liked all the other Mondo Macabro DVDs I've bought.It's also the first Paul Naschy movie I've seen, or at least the first one I've seen while knowing him to be a big Spanish horror star.A couple return to the husband's homeland so he can visit his parents' graves. Unfortunately, the graveyard they're in was abandoned during World War II, and is neglected, rumored to be haunted, and a place where murderous bandits can be found. It's also located near the Black Castle, where a monster lives. The monster is Daninsky, who turns into a wolf-man when the moon is full. As a wolf-man, he kills people or bites chunks of flesh out of them. As Daninsky, well, he kills people too, but he has more of a choice as to who he attacks: he only goes after bad guys.Daninsky gets taken to see Dr. Jekyll, the grandson of the infamous one, in England. Dr. Jekyll has a plan to cure Daninsky's lycanthropy, but I confess I did not understand it. It involved turning Daninsky into Mr. Hyde, and then somehow having the Mr. Hyde and Werewolf in Daninsky battle it out. That isn't what seems to happen, so perhaps I'm way off. I thought it peculiar that Daninsky turns into Mr. Hyde - Mr. Hyde had been the evil part of Dr. Jekyll. Daninsky's evil side might have been similar, but identical, and they give him the same name...?It is fairly entertaining, and I'm curious to see some other Daninsky werewolf movies now (this wasn't one of Nachy's more favorite ones), and perhaps some more of Nachy's other horror movies. The DVD is good, has some nice extras including an interview with Nachy and a text covering the short history of Spanish horror movies, and the DVD will be staying in my collection.It seems he's played the Waldemar Daninsky werewolf character in about thirteen movies, of which perhaps only four are readily available (through out of print videotapes and cheap poor quality DVDs), and the original is not one of them! It would seem a box set is needed, though I have not heard rumors of one.