Spain, Mexico, 1973
73m
35mm film, colour, 1.85:1
mono, Spanish
A Spanish horror film directed by Carlos Aured, who was Charles Aured on English language prints.
Plot Summary
The Inquisitor Ireneus Daninsky orders the witch Countess Bathory to be burned alive and her coven members hanged. The countess curses Daninsky and his descendants and 400 years later Waldemar Daninsky accidentally shoots a gypsy while hunting a wolf. The gypsies raise Satan to take their revenge and Daninsky is turned into a werewolf.
Credits
Crew
Directed by: Carlos Aured [Charles Aured on English language prints]
Deposito legal: M-20682-MCMLXXIII [1973]
Lotus Films Madrid – Spain, Producciones Escorpión, S.A. Mexico D.F. – Mexico
Executive Producer: Luis Méndez
Script and Original Screenplay by: Jacinto Molina [aka Paul Naschy, Jack Moll on English language prints]
Dialogues by: Edward Mannix
Director of Photography: Francisco Sánchez
Editor: Maruja Soriano [Mary Sorine on English language prints]
Sound: Felix Miron
Costume Designer: Antonio Muñoz
Make-up: Fernando Florido [Fred Florid on English language prints]
Hairdresser: Ester Gutierrez
Special Effects: Pablo Perez [Paul Percy on English language prints]
Art Director: Gumersindo Andres
Locations: Madrid, Toledo
Cast
Paul Naschy [Paul Nashy on English language prints] [Irineo Daninsky/Waldemar Daninsky]
Fabiola Falcon [Faye Falcon on English language prints] [Elisabeth Bathory/Kinga Waleska]
Vidal Molina [real name: Mariano Vidal Molina; Vinc Molina on English language prints]
Maritz Olivares [May Oliver on English language prints] [María]
José M. Martin [Joe Martin on English language prints] [Bela]
Elsa Zabala [gypsy witch]
Eduardo Calvo [Laszlo Wilowa]
Ana Farra [Malitza]
Fernando Sánchez Polack [Fernando S. Polack on English language prints] [Maurice, Daninsky’s valet]
Inés Morales [Ilona]
Santiago Rivero [doctor]
Pilar Vela [Irina Wilowa]
José Yepes
Ana Ma Rossie
Sandalio Hernández [doctor]
Jorge Matamoros [Barna Báthory]
Felicidad Nieto
Eduardo Bea
María Silva
Alternative Titles
The Black Harvest of Countess Dracula – USA (video)
Curse of the Devil – Canada, USA
L’Empreinte de Dracula – France
Die Nacht der teuflischen Orgien – West Germany
La noche del asesino – Mexico, USA (Spanish)
I nyxta ton lykanthropon – Greece
Return of the Werewolf – English language title
The Return of Walpurgis – USA (video)
Şeytanın laneti – Turkey
Die Todeskralle des grausamen Wolfes – Germany, West Germany
A Verdadeira História do Lobisomem – Brazil
Η νύχτα των λυκανθρώπων – Greece
Возвращение оборотня – Soviet Union
Links
Sequel to
Las noches del hombre lobo (1968)
La marca del hombre lobo (1968)
Los monstruos del terror (1970)
La noche de Walpurgis (1971)
La furia del hombre lobo (1972)
Doctor Jekyll y el hombre lobo (1972)
Sequels
La maldición de la bestia (1975)
El retorno del hombre lobo (1981)
La bestia y la espada mágica (1983)
El aullido del diablo (1988)
Licántropo: El asesino de la luna llena (1997)
Tomb of the Werewolf (2004)
References
Periodicals
- Cineinforme no.185 (October 1973) p.12
- Cinema TV Today no.10097 (24 August 1974) p.13
- Fangoria no.217 (October 2002) p.63 – illustrated DVD review (DVD Dungeon: Curse of the Devil by Michael Gingold)
- Monthly Film Bulletin vol.43 no.513 (October 1976) p.218
Books
- Cinematic Vampires by John L. Flynn pp.185-186
- Euro Gothic: Classics of Continental Horror Cinema by Jonathan Rigby pp.293-94, 326
- Horror and Science Fiction Films II by Donald C. Willis p.76
- Satan in the Celluloid: 100 Satanic and Occult Horror Movies of the 1970s by P.J. Thorndyke pp.325-327
- The World of Fantasy Films by Richard Myers p.39
