AKA "Night Of The Howling Beast" this film is full of pulp horror and just plain fun. Paul Naschy stars as Waldemar Daninsky, and this time he is helping an explorer find a mythical creature called the Yeti.
He gets lost in a mountain pass and is rescued by two gorgeous women living in a cave. He soon learns they are cannibalistic, demonic, sex crazed nymphets that guard a lost Buddhist temple. they make him a kind of sex slave and when he discovers what they really are he kills them, but not before one bites him and curses him with lycanthropy.
The rest of his party is captured by a sadistic man called Sekkar Khan (Luis Induni) and either tortured and killed or imprisoned in the dungeon for the Khan's amusement. Daninsky and his girlfriend Sylvia (Grace Mills) are captured shortly after, yet before they are captured Daninsky has killed several of the Khan's guards when transformed into a werewolf.
Living with Sakkar is and incredibly beautiful and sadistic woman named Wandesa (Sylvia Solar) who enjoys making the female captives suffer and who knows what Daninsky really is.
Yes, there is a climactic fight between Daninsky as a werewolf and the Yeti, however in this film Daninsky lives thanks to Sylvia and a rare plant that blooms in the mountains. She uses them to save Daninsky. For a change everyone dies BUT Waldemar and his girlfriend!
This film is a mixture of several genres and has enough pulp to satisfy everyone, or at least me. I really enjoyed this movie and found it to be my favorite of the five in the "Paul Naschy Collection 2" set.
Forget all the bad things you read and check this out for yourself. It's a real treat.
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