The Werewolf Versus the Vampire Woman

The Werewolf Versus the Vampire Woman (1971)

La noche de Walpurgis

Things happen that have never been seen by human beings. The blood flows like vintage wine. See it with someone you hate.

Elvira is travelling through the French countryside with her friend Genevieve, searching for the lost tomb of a medieval murderess and possible vampire, Countess Wandessa. They find a likely site in the castle of Waldemar Daninsky, who invites the women to stay as long as they like. As Waldemar shows Elvira the tomb that supposedly houses the countess, she accidentally causes the vampire to come back to life, hungrier than ever. Daninsky has a hidden secret of his own, but will it be enough to save the two girls from becoming Wandessa's next victims?

Date of release
1971-05-17
TMDB
5.4 / 10 (59)
Runtime
1h 35m
Genres
Horror
Director
León Klimovsky
Collection
Daninsky Werewolf Collection

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Budget: $120K
  • Filmed in: Madrid

La Noche de Walpurgis, also known as Walpurgis Night, is a 1970 Spanish/German horror film starring Paul Naschy, the fifth in his series about the werewolf Waldemar Daninsky. This film was directed by León Klimovsky and written by Naschy, and is generally regarded to have kickstarted the Spanish horror film boom of the 1970s.

Production

La Noche de Walpurgis was the fifth entry in a series of films 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 Fury of the Wolf Man (1970), which involved a Yeti's bite as the cause of Daninsky's curse.

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