Fluentiama
Perfect cast and a good story
mraculeated
The biggest problem with this movie is it’s a little better than you think it might be, which somehow makes it worse. As in, it takes itself a bit too seriously, which makes most of the movie feel kind of dull.
Portia Hilton
Blistering performances.
Guillelmina
The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.
jacobjohntaylor1
This is scarier then The Exorcist. This movie has a great story line. It also has great acting. More people need to see this movie. People who like horror stories will like this movie. Fury of the wolf man will scary you out of your mind. If you are looking for a really scary movie see this movie.
Bezenby
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!
Leofwine_draca
Shot in 1970 but not released until two years later, THE FURY OF THE WOLFMAN is one of the entries in the long-running Spanish series of 'Waldemar Daninsky' werewolf movies starring Paul Naschy. Unfortunately, it's one of the lesser affairs, mainly down to dodgy direction that results from a drunken director being allowed full control of the proceedings. As a result, the film is badly edited; has often risible dialogue; uses copious footage from earlier Naschy films and is generally poorly-filmed, especially in the action scenes. Compare this film with its sequel, WEREWOLF SHADOW, by the reliable and eminently stylish director Leon Klimovsky, and you'll notice a world of difference.Still, as a bad film it has plenty of interest, especially for the increasingly ludicrous plot ingredients. Not content with merely having a werewolf as the film's central character, the elements of this film's brew incorporate a mad female scientist (shades of LADY FRANKENSTEIN here), a cellar full of freaks and weirdos; a crazy killer guy who wears a Phantom of the Opera mask; a guy in a suit of armour (!) plus the usual torrid adultery and werewolf rampage. The film's nudity was cut for the American market, but the gore remains, including a nasty bit where a victim is burnt alive and bleeds to death at the same time (actually nicked from an earlier flick).There's some fun to be had from the 'monster team-up' moments, especially the climax, where Daninsky tackles his undead-cum-werewolf wife, but Jose Maria Zabalza's shoddy direction even makes these moments less than enthralling. It's a shame, because Perla Cristal is an icy villainess, Veronica Lujan is a lovely love interest, and Paul Naschy is as commendable as ever. Best to give this one a miss and check out some of the better entries in the series; the two films after this one, WEREWOLF SHADOW and CURSE OF THE DEVIL, are a good place to start
slayrrr666
"Fury of the Wolfman" is a decent enough entry in the Waldemar series of films.**SPOILERS**Returning home from Tibet, Waldemar Daninsky, (Jacinto Molina) informs his wife Erika, (Pilar Zorrilla) about his mysterious absence, having been trapped in an avalanche for several days and finally able to go back home. When he finds out that she's been having an affair with Bill Williams, (Mark Stevens) he ends up driving away in disgust only to suffer a debilitating car accident that they planned out. Waking up in the care of Dr. Ilona Elmann, (Perla Cristal) and her assistant Karen, (Veronica Lujan) who use a special process culled from the Orient to save him. When he is suddenly implicated in a string of brutal murders around town, he finds out that he is being manipulated by the two to continue the experiments of a mentor, and tries to use the werewolf powers bestowed upon him to stop their plans before they come true.The Good News: This here wasn't that bad of a film, and did have a few good points to it. There's the really creative set-up in the story which is unique and really entertaining. The adultery one here is mainly used get more bodies into the death count, but here it comes as a great point to the film by using it as the pretext to introduce the doctor into the film who's doing the scientific studies in the background but manages to become important once that part of the story is dealt with. There's some great points with this style of the story, and the slowly-unraveling mystery about the true intent of the experiments gives it some rather nice viewing. Those scenes are among the best, as the confusion and misunderstanding for the character mixes well with the obviousness of it all to the viewer, and those are rather great fun. The film's ending half, though, is where it also gets really good due to a lot of points. This is due to the transportation of the story to a large Gothic castle, complete with the torture devices, operating rooms and the stone buildings that are part of the construction do have a great look and feel in here that are just as glorious and atmospheric as anything else attempted at the time. There's also the action that comes along, with the two werewolves having a gigantic, drag-out brawl that really destroys a lot of furniture and works in some really great excitement and enjoyment into the situation. The werewolf style mask still looks good and vicious, as well as the transformation that occurs, and this time it even gives one to the second werewolf that pops into the story, which is another big factor of the story. These here are part of the film's strong points.The Bad News: This one here doesn't have a whole lot of flaws, but they do hold the film down somewhat. The main one here is that the science behind the story is a complete fabrication and doesn't have any indication into the smartness of the storyline. It uses a complete load of scientific-sounding words that are thrown together to have something that sounds intelligent, but rather there's only a vaguely resembling a coherent statement for the film's use. With the storyline being so incredibly ridiculous, it becomes more about the illogical way it's integrated into the story, making it more of a double-flaw as it's ridiculous and thrown in such a way that there's no way it can be anything other than a major flaw in the film. The fact that the werewolf make-up looks the same is both bad and good, good being that it promotes continuity between the films and bad in that it still looks rather cheap at times, which it does here. There's times where it visibly disappears at the sleeve of a shirt or not underneath the clothes, which makes it obvious that it's just supposed to be the parts where it's going to be visible to others. There's also the fact that there's little use for the gypsies in the film to come in, which are shoe-horned in and not dealt with, which is a shame. There's also a few scenes here and there lifted from other films that are quite obvious, and are pretty easy to spot. These flaws lower the film.The Final Verdict: A rather decent werewolf entry, with only a few headaches to be derived from the rather lame and convoluted story that lowers this one. Check it out for fans of the style, werewolf or European horror in general, otherwise give this one a pass for the more consistent performances out there.Rated R: Violence, Nudity and Language