La casa del terror (1960)

Casimiro, night watchman at a wax museum of horrors, is even more sleepy than his usual laziness makes him - because his boss, the Professor, is secretly draining blood from him while he ... See full summary »

Director:

Gilberto Martínez Solares

Writers:

Juan García (adaptation), Gilberto Martínez Solares (story),

Stars:

Germán Valdés, Yolanda Varela, Lon Chaney Jr.

Cast

Credited cast:
Germán Valdés	...	Casimiro (as German Valdes Tin Tan)
Yolanda Varela	...	Paquita
Lon Chaney Jr.	...	El hombre lobo (as Lon Chaney)
Yerye Beirute	...	Profesor Sebastián (as Yeyre Beirute)
Óscar Ortiz de Pinedo	...	Doctor Lorenzo Salazar, psiquiatra
Consuelo Guerrero de Luna	...	Paciente del dr. Salazar
Alfredo Wally Barrón	...	Nacho (as Alfredo W. Barron)
Agustín Fernández	...	Rito
Rafael Estrada	...	Profesor Estrada
Dacia González	...	Mesera
José Silva	...	(as Silva)
José Luis Aguirre 'Trotsky'	...	(as Trotsky)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Raymond Gaylord
Ana María Hernández	...	doña María, tía de Paquita
Linda Varlès

Storyline

Casimiro, night watchman at a wax museum of horrors, is even more sleepy than his usual laziness makes him - because his boss, the Professor, is secretly draining blood from him while he dozes to use in experiments in raising the dead. These haven't worked so far, and the bodies have been waxened and placed on display in the museum to cover his crimes. His big chance seems to come, however, when he learns that the mummified body of a modern man has been found in an Egyptian sarcophagus. The professor and his two henchmen steal the body and take it back to his lab - where the experiment flops again. Or it seems to. While the villains are out of the lab, and Casimiro sleeps on duty, a bolt of lightning gives the electrical boost which the Professor's machinery has needed, and the body comes back to life. Then the clouds part, the full moon shines through, and the resurrected one becomes a were- wolf. When Casimiro sees it wandering the museum, no one will believe him, not even Paquita, ...

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Plot Keywords:

professor | experiment | wax museum | sarcophagus | werewolf | 

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Genres:

Comedy | Horror | Sci-Fi

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Details

Country:

Mexico

Language:

Spanish

Release Date:

24 March 1960 (Mexico)

Also Known As:

House of Terror

Company Credits

Production Co:

Diana Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

82 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Black and White

Did You Know?

Connections

Featured in 100 Years of Horror: Werewolves (1996)

User Reviews

Mexican Chaney

House of Terror (1959)

** 1/2 (out of 4)

Mexican horror film has a group of thieves stealing a mummy (Lon Chaney, Jr.) and handing it over to a weird scientist. The scientist removes the mummy's bandages, which causes it to turn into a werewolf (also played by Chaney). This is the complete, unedited Spanish film but clips of this were used in Jerry Warren's American film Face of the Screaming Werewolf. This version I had to view without subtitles so I'm sure I missed some of the jokes going on inside the museum but even with the lack of subs the film wasn't too bad, although I prefer the American version due to how crazy it is.