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DPP 72cult
Director
Miguel Iglesias Bonns
Year
1975
Country
Spain
Runtime
94 min

Also released as

  • La maldición de la bestia
  • Night of the Howling Beast
  • Hall of the Mountain King
  • Horror of the Werewolf
  • The Curse of the Beast
  • Varulven
  • Il licantropo e lo yeti
  • Dans les griffes du loup-garou

The Werewolf and the Yeti

The Werewolf and the Yeti is a 1975 Spanish creature feature directed by Miguel Iglesias Bonns. It is one of the 72 films on the Director of Public Prosecutions' video nasties list, and it was successfully prosecuted for obscenity.

Paul Naschy in the Himalayas. On the list almost certainly because somebody read the title and stopped.

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Paul Naschy in the Himalayas, and it is on the DPP list almost certainly because somebody read the title and stopped there.

Naschy played Waldemar Daninsky, a Polish nobleman with lycanthropy, in twelve films across four decades, writing most of them himself. This is the eighth. An expedition looking for the yeti finds a cave, two women, and a curse.

It is a Spanish gothic adventure picture with werewolf makeup, some nudity and a monster suit, and there is nothing in it that would raise an eyebrow in a Hammer film of the same decade.

Naschy is worth knowing about. He made these under Franco's censorship, largely on his own initiative, and was the closest thing Spain had to Lon Chaney.

Successfully prosecuted, which remains one of the least explicable outcomes on the list.

Banned, seized, prosecuted

DPP 72 · successfully prosecuted

UK video title Night of the Howling Beast

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