Rent The Curse of the Werewolf (1961)
3.3 of 5 from 74 ratings
1h 27min
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- Synopsis:
In 18th Century Spain, a small village, is ruled over by an evil Marquis. A beggar goes to the castle of this unfair ruler for some small amount of bread, and is humiliated and jailed. He is forgotten, and after a while becomes more animal than human, the only, contact he has with humanity is through the mute servant girl who feeds him. When the servant girl is thrown into the beggar's cell and raped in a fit of lustful rage she falls pregnant After being released from the cell she escapes the castle, and is taken in by the kind Alfredo Corledo. On Christmas Day, Leon is born. His mother dies at birth, and Corledo takes to raising the boy. Leon grows up a normal child until age 6, when he begins to go missing at night and the local sheppard's report losses among their flocks, Leon is a werewolf, a condition brought on by his traumatic heritage. However, with love and affection, the transformations can be fought, and they are, until Leon becomes a man. One full moon, he again turns into a werewolf and terrifies the town. - Actors:
- Clifford Evans, Oliver Reed, Yvonne Romain, Catherine Feller, Anthony Dawson, Josephine Llewellyn, Richard Wordsworth, Hira Talfrey, Justin Walters, John Gabriel, Warren Mitchell, Anne Blake, George Woodbridge, Michael Ripper, Ewen Solon, Peter Sallis, Martin Matthews, David Conville, Denis Shaw, Charles Lamb
- Directors:
- Terence Fisher
- Producers:
- Anthony Hinds
- Writers:
- Anthony Hinds, Guy Endore
- Studio:
- Final Cut Entertainment
- Genres:
- Classics, Horror
- Collections:
- A Brief History of Hammer Horror
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 21/09/2015
- Run Time:
- 90 minutes
- Languages:
- English LPCM Mono
- Subtitles:
- None
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.78:1 / 16:9
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- "Censoring the Werewolf" : A new 13-minute documentary directed by Hammer Films historian Marcus Hearn
- "The Making of Curse of the Werewolf" with interviews with Catherine Feller, Yvonne Romain, Mike Hill, Don Mingaye, Margaret Robinson and Jimmy Sangster
- Lycanthropy: The Beast in All of Us
- Stills Gallery
