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493:, the deceased lycanthrope Waldemar Daninsky is revived to life when two country doctors surgically remove two silver bullets from his heart while performing an autopsy on him. Waldemar transforms into a werewolf, kills the doctors and escapes from the morgue. Some time later, two students, Elvira (named after Naschy's real-life wife of 40 years) and her friend Genevieve, go searching for the tomb of medieval murderess Countess Wandessa Darvula de Nadasdy. They find a possible gravesite in the vicinity of Waldemar Daninsky's castle, and the handsome count invites the girls to stay for a few days while they investigate the site. 125: 63: 22: 252: 496:
When Waldemar helps them to uncover the grave of Countess Wandessa, Elvira accidentally revives the vampire by bleeding onto her corpse. The vampire woman turns several young women including Genevieve into creatures of the night like herself, and they roam the forest at night, killing people in eerie
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and written by Paul Naschy, and is generally regarded to have kickstarted the Spanish horror film boom of the 1970s (as well as Naschy's career). This was Naschy's all-time most financially successful film. It was also the first of 8 films that he would make with director
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slow motion. Daninsky later turns into the Wolf Man, is forced to battle and destroy the vampire countess at the end of the film, after which he is killed by Elvira, a woman who loves him enough to end his torment. She plunges a silver cross into Waldemar's chest.
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to feature the werewolf Waldemar Daninsky. Daninsky's lycanthropy is not given a specific origin in this film; the events of the film are assumed to have followed from the ending of
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by Ellman Film Enterprises in 1972, accompanied by a paperback novelization tie-in (which didn't really follow the plot of the film too closely). It was released in Belgium as
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is never addressed. Some critics feel the film works better if one assumes it to be a direct sequel to Naschy's first werewolf film,
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Howarth, Troy (2018). Human Beasts: The Films of Paul Naschy. WK Books. p. 318. ISBN 978-1718835894.
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Howarth, Troy (2018). Human Beasts: The Films of Paul Naschy. WK Books. p. 58. ISBN 978-1718835894.
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Howarth, Troy (2018). "Human Beasts: The Films of Paul Naschy". WK Books. p. 51.
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Benzel, Thorsten (2012). Muchas Gracias, Senor Lobo. Creepy Images. p. 70.
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in 2007 by Deimos Entertainment, a subdivision of BCI Eclipse, as
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Besas, Peter (3 November 1971). "Spain Discovers Horror Pix".
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León Klimovsky
Paul Naschy
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