
In the Eighteenth Century, in Spain, a beggar comes to the castle of a cruel marquee on his wedding day to beg for food, and the marque locks him in his dungeon, where he is forgotten. The mute daughter of the jailer feeds him along the years. When she grows-up, the widower marquee unsuccessfully tries to shag her and locks the servant in the dungeons with the beggar that rapes her. When she is released, she kills the marquee and flees to the forest. She is found living like ... (Full plot summary below)
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In the Eighteenth Century, in Spain, a beggar comes to the castle of a cruel marquee on his wedding day to beg for food, and the marque locks him in his dungeon, where he is forgotten. The mute daughter of the jailer feeds him along the years. When she grows-up, the widower marquee unsuccessfully tries to shag her and locks the servant in the dungeons with the beggar that rapes her. When she is released, she kills the marquee and flees to the forest. She is found living like an animal in the woods by Don Alfredo and he brings her home. Soon his servant Teresa finds that she is pregnant. When she gives birth to a boy on Christmas, she dies and the boy Leon is raised by Don Alfredo and Teresa. A few years later they learn the curse that the boy carries with him, and the local priest advises that he must be raised with love. What will happen to Leon?
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| Creative LoafingMatt BrunsonA literate and respectful addition to the lycanthrope canon, generating enormous sympathy for its characters and even taking digs at the abuses heaped upon the working class by the 1%. |
| ESplatterSteve BiodrowskiLon Chaney, Jr.'s Wolf Man may be cinema's most famous lycanthrope, but there can be little doubt that this 1960 film from Hammer Productions is the best werewolf movie ever made. |
| Alternate EndingTim BraytonThe last 43 minutes of The Curse of the Werewolf are pretty damn good. The question is how much better they are than the 50 preceding minutes are a tedious grind. |
| User ReviewPrivate UAnother masterpiece from horror's most uner valued director: Terence Fisher. Lycanthropy is equated with original sin. |
| User ReviewKevin BThis is possibly the best werewolf film ever made. It really fleshes out the lead character's journey since his birth all the way through his short life. I like d the idea of his mom being raped and giving birth to him on christmas eve, thus cursing him to a tortured life. Even today the movie's make up is astounding, and it was wise of director Terrence Fisher not to show the beast until the end of the movie. It is also still somewhat frightening. |
| User ReviewShadow LI saw this movie at a film festival. This movie is truly a classic. I also love this film because it was made by Hammer Studios |
| User ReviewL JHammer's only entry into the world of the lycanthrope (until the Hammer House Of Horror TV-series episode 'Children Of The Full Moon' ...some 19 years later!). Ollie Reed was quite a handsome, dashing-looking fellow in his youth and his intense acting style suits the role of the doomed Leon perfectly; he also makes a pretty damn good werewolf. Anthony Dawson is memorably grotesque as the Marques in the early scenes, especially as an old man; Richard Wordsworth is excellent as the feral beggar who eventually violates Yvonne Romain's mute servant girl (offscreen, thankfully), who then gives birth to a child so feral he has hairy palms, fangs and a propensity for killing livestock late at night! The GREAT Michael Ripper appears as a drunken villager (unusually) who has SEEN the wolf (nobody believes him, of course - the fools!) and later has to share a prison-cell with him! Another winner from Bray Studios. |
| User ReviewJosh TI saw this movie at a film festival. This movie is truly a classic. I also love this film because it was made by Hammer Studios |
| User ReviewTori DIt feels like a haunting fairy tale; spanning an age in Spain and the web of lives that conveniently come together and evolve as an excellent werewolf story. |
| User ReviewChris Swhen it comes to gothic horror, Hammer studios never disipoints. Their films are outstanding and got away with sexuality and violence. Director Terence Fisher does a fantastic job rebooting and utalizing the werewolf myth, much like Frankenstein, Dracula and The Mummy. The movie has a dark and forboading atmosphere and the werewolf effects and design is pretty outstanding. One of my favorite Hammer films, but also one of my favorite werewolf films. |