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La Noche de Walpurgis (Walpurgis Night, released in the United States as The Werewolf vs. The Vampire Woman and in the UK as Werewolf Shadow) is a 1970 Spanish horror film starring Paul Naschy, the fifth in a series about the werewolf Waldemar Daninsky. This film was directed by León Klimovsky and written by Naschy and Hans Munkel, and is generally regarded to have kickstarted the Spanish horror film boom of the Seventies, due to its awesome box office success upon its release. Patty Shepard was so convincing as the vampiric Countess, it was thought at the time that she might replace actress Barbara Steele as Europe's reigning horror queen. Klimovsky filmed many of the scenes in slow motion, to add to the otherworldliness of the film.
Naschy followed up this film with a sequel entitled Dr. Jekyll and the Wolf Man.
Note* - There is a scene in this film that obviously inspired Spanish director Amando de Ossorio to write Tombs of the Blind Dead, which was made just a few months later in 1971. A skeletal zombie in a monk's garments assaults Naschy in a cemetery in one scene, bearing a strong resemblance to de Ossorio's Templar Knights in his "Blind Dead" films.
Original Release
05/17/1971
US Release
01/01/1972
Cast
Name | Character |
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Gaby Fuchs | Elvira |
Barbara Capell | Genevieve Bennett |
Andrés Resino | Inspector Marcel |
Yelena Samarina | Elizabeth Daninsky |
José Marco | Pierre |
Betsabé Ruiz | Pierre's Girl |
Barta Barri | Muller |
Luis Gaspar | Distraught Man |
Ruperto Ares | Mayor |
María Luisa Tovar | First Female Victim |
Directors
Writers
Cast
Name | Character |
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Gaby Fuchs | Elvira |
Barbara Capell | Genevieve Bennett |
Andrés Resino | Inspector Marcel |
Yelena Samarina | Elizabeth Daninsky |
José Marco | Pierre |
Betsabé Ruiz | Pierre's Girl |
Barta Barri | Muller |
Luis Gaspar | Distraught Man |
Ruperto Ares | Mayor |
María Luisa Tovar | First Female Victim |
Julio Peña | Dr. Hartwig - Coroner / Dr. Hartwig |
Patty Shepard | Wandesa Dárvula de Nadasdy / Countess Wandesa Dárvula de Nadasdy |
Carlos Aured | La Sombra de Satán |
Eduardo Chappa | Tramp / Monster |
Paul Naschy | Waldemar Daninsky |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Salvadore Romero | Producer |