Face of the Screaming Werewolf
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Directed by | Gilberto Martínez Solares Rafael Portillo Jerry Warren |
Written by | Fernando de Fuentes Gilberto Martínez Solares Alfredo Salazar Jerry Warren |
Produced by | Jerry Warren |
Starring | Lon Chaney Jr. Yerye Beirute George Mitchell Fred Hoffman Rosita Arenas Ramón Gay |
Cinematography | Raúl Martínez Solares Enrique Wallace |
Edited by | Jerry Warren |
Music by | Luis Hernández Bretón |
Distributed by | A.D.P. Pictures Inc. Something Weird Video |
Release date | March 3, 1965[1] |
Running time | 60 minutes |
Countries | Mexico United States |
Language | English (Dubbed) |
Face of the Screaming Werewolf is a 1965
The Re-edited Version
Warren had earlier released his own re-edited version of La Momia Azteca in 1963, which he had retitled
Plot
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Meanwhile, the second mummy (the Aztec warrior) escapes from captivity later that night and tries to kidnap Ann Taylor, the psychic, from her apartment, but they are both anticlimactically hit by a car and killed (off-screen) as he tries to carry her off. A hastily inserted newspaper headline alerts the public that the Mummy has been killed, bringing that plot to an abrupt end.
The werewolf kills the mad scientist, escapes from the lab and goes on a killing spree in a nearby city. Near the film's finale, the werewolf kidnaps a young woman (Yolanda Varela) from her apartment near the film's finale, and Mexican comedian Tin-Tan (German Valdes) battles the monster on a high ledge. (Since almost all of his scenes had been edited out of the original Mexican film by Jerry Warren for this Americanized edition, his appearance at the climax makes no sense.[2]) The werewolf escapes back to the lab with the woman, but the lab catches on fire and the nameless hero (Tin-Tan) beats him to death with a burning torch. As the werewolf reverts to his human form in death, a pair of American actors playing policemen dismiss the idea that there was ever a werewolf at all.
Cast
- Lon Chaney Jr. as The Mummified Werewolf
- Angel Di Stefani as The Aztec Mummy
- Rosita Arenas as Ann Taylor (the psychic)
- Yerye Beirute as Dr. Janning
- George Mitchell as Dr. Frederick Munson
- Fred Hoffman as Detective Hammond
- Ramón Gay (billed as Raymond Gaylord) as Dr. Edmund Redding
- Alfredo W. Barron (billed as Donald Barron) as Janning's heavyset henchman
- Yolanda Varela (billed as Landa Varle) as the girl carried off by the werewolf
- German Valdes(aka Tin-Tan) as Hero who rescues the girl from the werewolf
- Chuck Niles as newscaster Douglas Banks
- Steve Conte as The Hired Thief
- Crox Alvarado as Redding's bespectacled aide
Reception
Michael Weldon of Psychotronic Video stated that the film did not make sense since so much of the original dialogue scenes had been removed.[6] Cavett Binion of AllMovie referred to it as a "messy film" that contained poor dubbing and editing.[7]
References
- ^ a b "Face of the Screaming Werewolf (1965) - Gilberto Martínez Solares, Jerry Warren, Rafael Lopez Portillo | Releases | AllMovie".
- ^ a b c Cotter 2005, p. 41.
- ^ ISBN 0-89950-628-3. Page 14, 15
- ^ Smith 1996.
- ^ a b Cotter 2005, p. 40.
- ISBN 0-312-13149-6. Page 195
- ^ Binion, Cavett. "Face of the Screaming Werewolf". Retrieved 9 July 2018.
Sources
- Cotter, Robert Michael (2005). The Mexican Masked Wrestler and Monster Filmography. McFarland. ISBN 0-7864-2022-7.
- Smith, Don G. (1996). Lon Chaney Jr. McFarland. ISBN 0-7864-0120-6.
External links
- Face of the Screaming Werewolf at IMDb