Face of the Screaming Werewolf (1964)

User Rating:

1.9/10   

Directors:

Gilberto Martínez Solares
Rafael Portillo

Writers:

Juan García (writer)
Gilberto Martínez Solares (werewolf sequences)

Genre:

Horror

Plot:

Experimenting in hypnotic regression to past lives, Dr. Edmund Redding of the Cowan Institute in Pasadena...

Plot Keywords:

Mummy | Werewolf | Pyramid | Death By Falling | Wax Museum

Cast

Lon Chaney Jr.	...	The Mummified Werewolf
Yerye Beirute	...	Prof. Janning
George Mitchell	...	Dr. Frederick Munson
Fred Hoffman	...	Detective Hammond
Rosa Arenas	...	Ann Taylor
Ramón Gay	...	Dr. Edmund Redding
Alfredo Wally Barrón	...	Henchman
Óscar Ortiz de Pinedo	...	Henchman
Chuck Niles	...	Douglas Banks, newscaster
Steve Conte	...	The Hired Thief
Yolanda Varela	...	Woman in Apartment (as Landa Varle)
Germán Valdés	...	Man Who Sleeps in Wax Museum and Saves Woman in Apartment
Jorge Mondragón	...	Elderly Scientist
William White	...	Undetermined Role [May Not Appear in this film]
Crox Alvarado	...	Redding's Bespectacled Aide

Runtime:

60 min

Country:

Mexico | USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Sound Mix:

Mono

Company:

Jerry Warren Productions Inc.

Trivia:

Released on a double bill with Curse of the Stone Hand (1964).

Movie Connections:

Features La casa del terror (1960)

Unintentional masterpeace

Can a movie, that actually consists scenes from two mexican monsterthrillers plus additional scenes from US for commersial interests, be successful? - Yes! This is a dreamlike and incoherently edited oddity that tells a story of a centralamerican mummy found at the excur- sions of a pyramid. Also there is a mad scientist who in his experiments with revivification, succeeds in waking the mummy. And there´s a thunderstorm! The mummy is transformed into a werewolf played by Lon Chaney jnr! Its wild, suspenseful, trancendental, poetic in its "silents" looks and pace and there is a musical number of exotica style too, with an Yma Sumaclike vocalist in a "flashback" Aztec ritual scene! I was overwhelmed of the total impact of this movie as seen through the eyes of someone who value uniqueness and improvised quality in lowbudgetfantasy that really works as avantgarde poetry. The images and atmosphere of Ancient Civilisation, Pyramids, detectiveworks, a scary rotten walking mummy, a terrifying werewolf,terrified womens faces and all these mysterios cuts between scenes from one film to another creates a nightmare with no other logic than the dream´s own. I recommend this for all who has a vivid imagination and for all of you who believe that insanity can be genial!