Werewolf Woman (1976)

A woman has dreams that she is a werewolf so she goes out and finds men. She proceeds to have sex with them and then rip their throats out with her teeth. She eventually falls in love but ... See full summary »

Director:

Rino Di Silvestro (as R.D. Silver)

Writer:

Rino Di Silvestro (as Rino DeSilvestro)

Stars:

Annik Borel, Howard Ross, Dagmar Lassander

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Annik Borel	...	Daniela Neseri
Howard Ross	...	Luca Mondini
Dagmar Lassander	...	Elena Neseri
Tino Carraro	...	Count Neseri
Elio Zamuto	...	Psychiatrist
Osvaldo Ruggieri
Andrea Scotti	...	Arrighi
Frederick Stafford	...	Inspector Modica
Felicita Fanny	...	Doctor in Car
Isabella Rosa
Giuliana Giuliani
Anna Mallarini
Maria Renata Franco	...	(as Renata Franco)
Salvatore Billa	...	Rapist
Pietro Torrisi	...	Alvaro - Rapist

Storyline

A woman has dreams that she is a werewolf so she goes out and finds men. She proceeds to have sex with them and then rip their throats out with her teeth. She eventually falls in love but then she is raped and her lover is murdered so she goes out for revenge.

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Plot Keywords:

revenge | rape | crushed to death | crushed car | car junkyard | 

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Taglines:

A true story...brutal and horrifying!

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Genres:

Horror

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Certificate:

R

Did You Know?

Trivia

Selected by Quentin Tarantino for the First Quentin Tarantino Film Fest in Austin, TX, in 1996. He had actually never seen the picture before he screened it. He loved it so much that all subsequent Quentin Tarantino Film Fests had a surprise movie added to the end of each all-nighter known as the "Wolf Woman" selection, defined as an outrageous exploitation film sure to wake the audience up. "Wolf Women" selections over the years have included The Blood Spattered Bride (1972) and The Mighty Peking Man (1977).

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Alternate Versions

Although the UK cinema version was cut the pre-cert video release (on the Cinehollywood label) was uncut and was listed on Greater Manchester Police's list of films subject to seizure during the video nasty scare of the 1980s. It was eventually released on video (as "Naked Werewolf Woman") in 1986 with heavy pre-cuts to the rape scene and 42 secs of additional BBFC cuts to remove shots of a naked woman's stitched body on a mortician's slab.

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Connections

Referenced in Ban the Sadist Videos! (2005)

User Reviews

Pure, grade-A Euro-crap (but I liked it)

This is NOT a good movie. Nor is it really even "so-bad-its-good", but it is kind of interesting in a twisted, car wreck sort of way. The movie is about a young woman who due to an ancient family curse and implied childhood sexual abuse is suffering from a kind of "hysterical lycanthropy". She believes herself to be a werewolf, so she starts killing (and eventually eating) her male lovers. Her actual lycanthropic status is left kind of ambiguous throughout the movie, making this more interesting than most. It kind of aspired to be what "Ginger Snaps" was years later. But unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on your point of view) it was directed by Rino DiSilvestri, a notorious Italian exploitation hack who had absolutely no sense of his own limitations. Still I vastly prefer a movie like this that tries to be serious and stumbles into camp, to one that intentionally aims at camp (like so many alleged "cult" movies do today) and fails just as miserably.

Of course, DiSivestri WAS pretty good at sexploitation, and he always had a very decent female cast. In his earlier movies he worked with a whole bevy of Euro-beauties (Anita Strindberg, Jenny Tamburi, Paola Senatore, Krista Nell, Magda Konopfka, Orchidea DiSantis, ad infinitum). Here he's reduced to the lovely Dagmar Lassander, who has probably the longest and most gratuitous sex scene of her career, and the lead, the much more obscure Anik Borel, who was cast because DiSivestri, according to his DVD commentary, thought "she looked like a wolf". She is kind of weird looking I guess, but her body is pretty impressive and you get to see a whole lot of it here. (Interestingly, her only other notable screen credit is in "Weekend with the Babysitter" a very 70's and very American sexploitation film directed by Tom "Billy Jack" McLoughlin). This movie is certainly not for everybody, but it works for me

Details

Country:

Italy

Language:

Italian

Release Date:

June 1977 (USA)

Also Known As:

The Legend of the Wolf Woman

Company Credits

Production Co:

Dialchi Film

Technical Specs

Runtime:

98 min (DVD)

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1