PodBill Just what I expected

GrimPrecise I'll tell you why so serious

Anoushka Slater While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Sarita Rafferty There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

Bezenby Paul Naschy returns as Waldemar Daninsky, the man perpetually cursed to be turned into a Werewolf, cured, or killed over and over again forever. This time round he's heading up the Himalayas to take on vampire women, some descendant of the Great Khans, and right near the end...a yeti! I LOVE these films.Let's get the plot out of the way: Paul this time is an explorer who heads off to the Himalayas on the flimsy pretext of finding a yeti with his loyal entourage in tow. He gets separated from the rest while looking for some dangerous pass and ends up in the company of two sexy evil women who keep him as a sex slave until he discovers them eating human flesh. While fighting them to the death, he is bitten and from then on out becomes a werewolf every time the moon rises.This is actually quite lucky because the rest of his group have been caught by a bunch of Ghengis-Khan like warriors, the leader of whom has a really bad skin complaint that his evil medical lady insists can only be cured by draping human skin over it. Cue gory skinning scene! Paul Naschy will have to bring all his lycanthropic skills with him to sort out these jerks.That's that out the road, so let's talk about what makes this film so much fun: you'll be clued in on how brain-melting this one is when "Scotland The Brave" plays over footage of London, then there's the hilarious transformation sequences where Naschy rolls about the ground like he's suffering from severe gastroenteritis, and the bit where Victor Isreal freaks out, runs off, screams off-screen likes he's fallen off a cliff, and yet when Nascy goes to investigate he finds footprints leading off into the distance.You'll also spend a considerable amount of time wondering if the Yeti is even going to make an appearance, and when it does about five minutes from the end of the film, it looks almost exactly like the werewolf, which makes the last battle of the film really confusing. Ultra-low budgets and dodgy effects aside, Nascy always delivers on the goods and therefore the film is packed with werewolf attacks, fighting and gore isn't boring for a minute. Just leave your brain fallow when watching and you'll enjoy. This was inexplicably banned as part of the Video Nasties panic and has never been re-released!

gorepump This is another one of those I can't understand being labeled a "Video Nasty", though I think many would concur that the VN list doesn't make any f*cking sense anyway. So apart from that discomfiting detail, "The Werewolf and the Yeti" (aka. Night of the Howling Beast) is a relatively disjointed cluster-f*ck 'exploitation' flick among a series of related Spanish werewolf films that I have not seen...A couple of yeti-hunting explorers are attacked by a vicious, furry creature in the mountains of Tibet so a party heads out to look for them. One of the guys from earlier is seen trudging through the snow and stumbles across a pair of cave-dwelling cannibal-vampire-wolf-nymphs who get freaky and bite him - thus, transforming him into a lycanthrope during a full moon... The search party is eventually ambushed by a gang of bandits who like torturing people, so by the end there's a big-ass showdown between the surviving explorers and the bandits and "the wolfman" and a yeti...I guess my main gripe with this one is that it just looks sh*tty. Terrible day-for-night shots and werewolf transformations that cheaply mimic the primitive effects utilized in the 1941 Lon Chaney Jr. classic as well as subsequent 'wolfy' films (stationary shot as they stick fur to a guy's face and fade between 'em). There's a little bit of nudity but not nearly enough to matter all that much and the gore was weak. Plus, there was just too much going on here and it kinda lost me at times. They should've just focused more on the werewolf/yeti and those cave-sluts. That would've kept my ass entertained. In all, this one is just forgettable.More of my reviews @ http://swinesewage.blogspot.com/

Red-Barracuda In this Spanish horror movie a group of scientists travel to Tibet to try and track down the Yeti. While there one of their team is infected with lycanthropy and periodically turns into a werewolf.This is my first exposure to the Spanish horror icon Paul Naschy, who stars in the lead role here. Seemingly Naschy made many similar films in a long career. On this basis, his back catalogue could do with further investigation. Despite being a low budget affair, The Werewolf and the Yeti throws a lot of ideas at us and certainly tries to entertain. Aside from the two title monsters there are a pair of cannibal vampire cave-girls, a wicked sorceress and a gang of violent bandits. Sadly, while the werewolf has a prominent part to play in proceedings as he goes round killing bad guys, the Yeti only appears at the beginning and the end. The snowy locations and sets are very nice too and add to the overall atmosphere.This film's main claim to fame has to be its inclusion on the Video Nasty list. It was even one of the titles that remained on the DPP's hit-list right until the very end and so has an added notoriety. However, it really is quite difficult to work out why this should be, as despite some gory moments this is hardly a shocking film. The skinning sequence is probably the most obviously infamous but it's not particularly graphic. Rather than being nasty, this is more of a silly and schlocky film. It should interest werewolf film fanatics and should also offer something to those who enjoy the racier Euro variants on the Hammer horrors.

BA_Harrison If you've seen any of Paul Naschy's other 'hombre lobo' films, you probably have a pretty good idea of what to expect from The Werewolf and the Yeti—schlocky dialogue, hammy acting, Naschy once again sporting terrible wolf make-up, some sexy Euro-totty, and a bit of unrealistic bright-red gore. In short, a fun slice of very silly Spanish monster madness.One can only presume, therefore, that it must have been one hell of a slow day at the office when the BBFC/DPP decided to stick The Werewolf and the Yeti on the Official Nasties list: the film has its unsavoury moments, as do most horror films, but there's nothing to warrant it being lumped with likes of genuinely disturbing flicks such as Cannibal Holocaust, Faces of Death and Gestapo's Last Orgy. Any violence or sadism in The Werewolf and the Yeti is handled in such a camp manner that it's almost impossible to take offence at.Take the flaying of sexy young scientist Melody (the gorgeous Verónica Miriel) by evil bitch Wandessa (Silvia Solar), for example: the effects are so cheap and unrealistic that one cannot help but find the scene amusing, no matter how repulsive the idea. Likewise, the sight of one of the scientists impaled on a wooden stake (ala Cannibal Holocaust) is rendered laughable by the fact that he is not only still alive, but also capable of holding a conversation with our hero.Also providing mucho unintentional chuckles: the scene where Naschy kills a pair of semi-naked werewolf/vampire/witch women (but only after having sex with them both, of course); the ridiculous fight between Naschy and dermatologically challenged bandit/warlord Sekkar Khan (Luis Induni); and the rousing finale, in which our hero, transformed into a drooling beast by the full moon, rescues his love Sylvia (Mercedes Molina) from the abominable snowman.It's all utter nonsense, not at all scary and certainly not nasty enough to deserve being banned, but still worth a go if you're in the mood for a bit of a giggle.