SnoReptilePlenty Memorable, crazy movie

Beystiman It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

FuzzyTagz If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

jadavix In this Naschy-Daninsky outing, the curse of lycanthropy has apparently been passed on to "professor" Waldemar Daninsky during a trip to Tibet in which he was the sole survivor, but was also bitten by a yeti! None of this is actually depicted in the movie, in fact it is only mentioned in passing by one of the characters as an afterthought. This gives you an idea of what you are in for with "Fury of the Wolfman" - the interesting bits are either left out, or shown so badly they come across as boring.As el hombre lobo Daninsky kills his wife and then "dies" from electrocution. One of his professor peers, however, exhumes his corpse and begins experimenting on him, while a group of hippies and little people hang around in her dungeon, and a guy with a white face mask (Michael Myers style) creeps around in the background.The movie has the feeling of a hackjob all over it. Something must have gone wrong. It feels all over the place. Scenes don't come to anything and nothing is properly established. Important details, such as the yeti attack, are rushed or left out. What we end up with is people running around and bumping up against each other in a grubby dungeon.The violence is also quite toned down for a Naschy movie, and there is no sex or nudity either. Could this be the worst movie the great man made? I hope so.

Theo Robertson A man returns from Tibet carrying the curse of the werewolf . If that wasn't bad enough his wife has been cheating on him and decides to get rid of him and get her lover to move in with her Apologies if the summary is slightly brief but I'm afraid that's only a brief part of the film . Paul Naschy once again plays Daninsky but this time he's called Welter not Waldemar . This is a bit confusing because the continuity ties in with the later THE WOLFMAN AND THE YETI . It's almost certainly but the constant referring to him as Walter does grate and probably sums up the lack of care and attention by the production team Make no mistake this is a very careless film in all aspects especially the plotting . The truth is there's subplots tacked on to one another but these subplots lack any developed transition between them and you often think you're watching a series of clips strung together very badly with the cast being the only linking continuity . There's enough ideas to keep a horror studio here in the business for years and have used them up in one go . The irony is the Daninsky films are very formulaic and repetitive

JoeKarlosi Spanish horror icon Paul Naschy stars in this, one of his weakest werewolf films... but bear with me for a moment. Most people will be familiar with it under its most common television title, THE FURY OF THE WOLF MAN, and there have been many home video versions of it over the years. If you want to be serious about giving it a fair shot though, the most workable edition I've seen of it goes by the title THE WOLF MAN NEVER SLEEPS, and it's an unedited and complete European version which restores a couple of disturbing scenes and contains the original nude shots which are missing from FURY's print. It is also letterboxed.Naschy plays Waldemar Daninsky, returning home from a trip to Tibet only to find out that he's contracted a werewolf curse and that his wife has been having an affair. He takes care of her and her lover while in animal form, but then becomes a guinea pig for a sexy woman doctor and her female assistant. Apparently, the doc attempts to "tame" the werewolf, and there is a very strange sado-masochistic love scene between her and the hairy and fanged Daninsky who is under her trance, at least in the original version. Ultimately we get two werewolves for the price of one as Daninsky battles a she-wolf! The biggest problem with the movie is that the director (according to Naschy's claims) was often drunk, and the results are indeed rather incoherent. When watching THE WOLF MAN NEVER SLEEPS copy, it's not quite as difficult to make out what's going on, though the editing remains atrocious in spots. Worst of all is occasional non-matching footage of Naschy's ravenous werewolf swiped straight from another previous film (LA MARC DEL HOMBRE LOBO, aka "FRANKENSTEIN'S BLOODY TERROR") and mixed into this one without any sensible reason! The wolf's clothing changes from black shirt to white and back again, as does his demeanor; one moment the wolf is walking around lethargically in a hypnotic trance from FURY, next he is growling and running around savagely from BLOODY TERROR. Really bizarre. *1/2 out of ****

Scarecrow-88 Mess of cobbled together ideas and scenes(..some scenes directly lifted another previous El Hombre Lobo film to pad this movie)with corny background music, abysmal camera-work(..I read elsewhere that the director was drunk a lot during filming, and it shows), static direction(..with so many things tossed at the viewer, you'd think it wouldn't be as slow and uninvolving as it is), and full of soap opera-style melodramatics, yet overall I still found individual things from the film I enjoyed.Revered professor/scientist Waldemar Daninsky(Paul Naschy)is supposedly bitten by a werewolf in Tibet(..idea obviously lifted from Univeral's "Werewolf in London")while on an expedition, with the crew who accompanied him vanished. He finds that the pentagram mark on his chest might work as a sign of what ails him, and Daninsky goes to fellow scientist, Dr. Ilona Elmann(Perla Cristal)noted for her provocative experiments in the control of the human brain. Waldemar finds out through an unnamed source that his wife, Erika(Pilar Zorrilla)is having an affair with a man named Nevell(Fabián Conde). What he doesn't know is that the couple are secretly plotting to kill him, tampering with the brakes causing his car to hit a tree. While not dead, Daninsky seeks the help of Ilona, who will exploit his unfortunate lycanthrope condition for her own mind control experiments. Unleashing the werewolf from his chains to terrorize innocents round abouts, Daninsky accidentally electrocutes himself on a fallen power line. Ilona will later dig up his undead corpse, forcing him to do her will, with assistant/student Karen(the lovely Verónica Luján)resisting her teacher's philosophies falling for the victimized Daninsky. Karen's boyfriend, reporter Williams(Mark Stevens)will join forces with detective Miller(Miguel de la Riva)to find out the one responsible for the rash of murders and werewolf attacks plaguing the community(Ilona sends Daninsky, in werewolf form, to murder his wife and her lover). Ilona, with a reluctant Karen in tow, will continue their experiments in the notorious Dr. Wolfstein's castle, a place where many insane patients are held locked in chains, humans are harvested as plants(!), and possibly even the supposedly dead owner of the place himself walking amongst them. We will see that Ilona is a mastermind behind everything that has taken place and that her ability of hypnotic mind control is being used for criminal and immoral purposes. And, the secret of her birth rite is revealed..Such a convoluted mess as the synopsis I wrote above does yield some things I found entertaining. The old-school werewolf look of Daninsky is still my favorite next to Pierce's Univeral creation. The attacks often feature gaping flesh wounds and are often bloody. I loved Perla Cristal in the role of mad scientist, even if the character's methods are a bit unorthodox and often just plain silly(..although, she's certainly insane, so perhaps despite being a scientific genius, Ilona is not operating within a full capacity). I especially enjoyed the scene where Ilona whips Daninsky, in werewolf form, seemingly relishing the opportunity to do so..and having full command of what is taking place, demented as the situation is, Cristal displays the drunk power underneath brooding. Verónica Luján is simply the eye candy, as Daninsky's ally. There's a plot twist concerning Daninsky's condition and the affair which brought out the vicious werewolf attack on Erika and Nevell, which I found a bit out of the blue and bonkers, that just explains how out-of-control Naschy's screenplay is. Couple all this will excerpts of Daninsky's werewolf(..in a different colored shirt practically screaming at the viewer that this was from another movie)spliced into "Fury of the Werewolf" and you have an unholy affair which produces uneven results.