Solemplex To me, this movie is perfection.

Supelice Dreadfully Boring

Jakoba True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

Marva It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Bezenby I think this is the fifth Paul Naschy werewolf film, but who knows. This one starts out with an English fellow heading out for Transylvania to visit his parent's graves, with his cute wife in tow, only for the both of them to discover a horribly burned man lurking about the place. This film details the seventies approach to disability when the wife starts screaming bloody murder and the English guy throws a brick at the guy.At a local bar, the barman describes the entire area as being full of thieves and cutthroats and says maybe it's a bad idea to go to the old creepy cemetery that's next to the old creepy castle that the local monster lives in, but off they go anyway, which results in three local brothers robbing their car, killing the English guy, and trying to rape the Justine, his wife. I say try because Paul Naschy turns up and brutally murders two of the brothers (one by dropping a huge rock on the guy's face!).Paul of course is a werewolf with a witch sidekick and when this robber guy starts going on about revenge and involving the locals it doesn't turn out right for anyone, as more villagers end up dead, the rest get out the pitchforks and torches, and Paul has to high tail it to England so the plot can get even more stupid. I also noted that for some reason one villager had a gigantic pitchfork that was much larger than the others. Must have been compensating for something. Now Justine has quickly got over her husband being murdered and is in love with Paul, so she goes to Dr Jekyll to get him cured. In a plot move that makes virtually no sense whatsoever, Jekyll proposes that they inject Paul with some injection that will make Mister Hyde manifest in Paul (?) so that they can then isolate the evil in him and kill him. So not only has Paul got to put up with the werewolf stuff, now he's turned into a sex-crazed hedonist too!This might have actually worked out if Dr Jekyll didn't have a jealous female sidekick who wasn't happy with Jekyll trying to help out an unrequited love. Next thing you know Hyde is out rampaging around London, but then again you only get to see that if you have the uncut version as it involves ravaging hookers and whipping Justine. Best thing about this film (apart from the crazy storyline) was that any time you started to think it would get boring - it didn't! I thought things would slow down a lot once Paul got to London for his cure, but then, in the lift on the way up to his appointment, the lift broke down and trapped him with a nurse until the moon rose, causing a werewolf rampage! I love these films!It doesn't skimp on the gore and the only thing missing from the Mill Creek version is the nudity*, which you're not going to miss anyway if you watching an endless list of these films. Naschy's Mr Hyde was funny too, including the way he just exits the film without any fuss.*I'm talking crap - it's also missing the opening credits.

Leofwine_draca After the spellbinding success of his werewolf/vampire pairing WEREWOLF SHADOW the year previously, Paul Naschy decided to team his lovelorn lycanthrope Waldemar Daninsky with the infamous character created by Robert Louis Stevenson, Doctor Jekyll, and his alter ego Mr Hyde. The resulting production is an episodic thrill-ride which, whilst not always successful, manages to be exciting, romantic, Gothic, and suspenseful at various stages in the narration.Essentially this is a film of two halves. The first is a straightforward werewolf epic, packed with spooky graveyards, a deformed leper, and lots of human skulls rattling around. The Jekyll experiment doesn't even happen until an hour into the movie, although at least it's not at the very end like the yeti in THE WEREWOLF AND THE YETI. Despite a low budget, the film has authentic production values and the location shooting in London adds to the dated realism of the piece. Director Leon Klimovsky was a sure hand with such fare and injects plenty of Gothic, spooky atmosphere into the film, especially in the early scenes which very nearly rival those in WEREWOLF SHADOW.Naschy is excellent, as always, in the leading part, whether it be Daninsky the werewolf or Daninsky as Hyde. Actually, I preferred him as Hyde, as some simple but effective makeup and long hair really makes him look like a sadistic brute - a case of less is more. Naschy is supported by the reliable Jack Taylor (THE FEMALE VAMPIRE), who couldn't be more at home than playing Dr. Jekyll, and the usual round of seedy/sleazy/violent characters fill out the rest of the cast to good effect. Particularly good is Shirley Corrigan (CRIMES OF THE BLACK CAT), memorable in a torture sequence in which she is stripped to the waist and sadistically whipped by a gloating Naschy. Exploitation doesn't get any better than this, folks.The various action sequences of Daninsky running amok in a modern-day London are well-handled and fun and the pay-off suitably dramatic, if a little rushed. Worth mentioning are the transformation scenes, stylishly handled on a low budget and pretty original. Not a Naschy classic as I had hoped for, but a pretty good effort and different enough to be worth a watch.

BA_Harrison 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.

accattone74 What's your Jekyll doing in my Wolfman? Hey! Get your Wolfman out of my Jekyll! Naschy found a way to bring these classic characters together for a film that's a hoot from start to finish. After saving a woman from being raped, Daninsky travels with her back to London, where she hopes to cure him of his lobo-curse via her connection to the grandson of Dr. Jekyll. Unfortunately (but fortunately for us), not everything goes as planned with the cure, and Waldemar is now additionally burdened with a split personality, giving him a final MPD count of 3. The added persona's traits are that of a sadistic beast, though unlike the curse of the werewolf, Waldemar's Mr. Hyde has the sexual appetite of a Spring Break Co-Ed on amphetamines. Being both Hyde and the werewolf pretty much doubles the violence in this film, and the gore is fantastic. Naschy is having a glorious time playing the three roles, and that fact alone is enough to make this film fabulous. Mirta Miller, veteran of several Naschy films, is just marvelous here as a beautifully (and beautiful) sinister nurse.