The Curse of the Werewolf

The Curse of the Werewolf is Hammer's only werewolf film, and it's a real mini epic - the ninety minute runtime spectacularly incorporates a story spanning over several decades. The first act is a brilliantly conceived origin story for the werewolf itself. The whole…

Slig001

Not enough werewolf. Set design was good. Pacing was rough and they spent far too long on the origin story!

Iamblakeman

RESEÑA EN ESPAÑOL SPOOKTOBER VI: THE HAMMER OF HORROR Fisher and Hammer present their take on classic werewolf stories, featuring lavish and stunning set designs that immerse you in the narrative. The subplot involving the child, along with the way the film sometimes…

Rafael "Mister Movie" Jovine

An incredibly different animal to your typical Hammer presentation, The Curse of the Werewolf takes the familiar legend and gives it a distinctly Gothic, almost Dickensian flavour, creating a film that is as much a story of inherited guilt and repression as it is a tale of…

Daniel Shillito

Checks all the Hammer boxes you’d want – gothic atmosphere, lavish colours, quite clearly English people pretending they’re Spanish, serious father figures, beautiful women in low-cut dresses – but adds in a rather massive dose of melancholy which felt surprising for a…

Lexzilla

The opening credits play over a close-up of a crying werewolf's eyes. Nobody in werewolf movie history ever wanted to be a werewolf less than Oliver Reed's character. The opening which threw me for a loop when I first watched this last year made more sense thematically and…

laird

🌕 🐺 ROAD TO ROBERT EGGERS WEREWOLF 🐺 🌕 (English Version below) _____________________________________________________________ german version  Blutrotes Spanien & Britischer Charme: „Der Fluch von…

Mister Cap (english/german)

Another delightful Hammer horror puts me halfway through my box set and I didn’t even realize until he shows up that the titular monster is played by Oliver Reed looking like a goddamn snack and a half in his human form. It does take a little while to get going, but it…

Tony the Terror

Is it a bad thing when you’re baptised and the holy water has a bad reaction to you?  The Curse of the Werewolf certainly thinks so.  This Hammer effort is one that terrified me as a kid, so it’s fun to come back to it after all this time and find that what Terence Fisher…

jryn7