someday somebody be go to write an essay comparing paul naschy fury of the wolfman to the great spanish surrealist film and lage dor and un chien andelou . the naschy film be a masterpiece of delirium from begin to end . dali and bunuel probably love it and and eat their heart out see someone do with such apparent ease what they have to rack their brain to pull off . the film lack cohesive structure even though it do have a plot that move from a to b to c. some mishmash about a professor walterman his first name and mind you who be bite by a yeti monster during an expedition to tibet and hasn not be the same since and which be understandable . one of his jealous colleague and the insane daughter of the noted doctor wolfstein and know about his condition and reveals that his wife have be cheat on him . but it a setup for a twisted scientific experiment to unleash his inner beast . walterman flip out and turn into a werewolf and kill a few people and be electrocute and dy and be bury and unburied and take to a castle fill with circus freak and wire to various machine and zap with assorted electronic effect and inject with potent elixir and be chain up and turn into a werewolf and a woman in an evening gown with thigh high nazi fetish boot whip him and he escape and help the pretty female doctor find her way out of the castle and fend off the circus freak with a battle axe and eventually turn back into a werewolf and and have to fight to the death against the female werewolf incarnation of his cheat wife . the lady with the nazi boot shoot him with silver bullet from her luger pistol and they die together and and the pretty doctor walk off into the morning with the studly reporter and who do nothing . look . what a beautiful day it be . la furia del hombre lobo be write by paul naschy in a hurry . original director enrique eguilez be fire and replace by josé maría zabalza and a drunk who be infamously intoxicate throughout the production . he be often unable to work ( though he do find time to instruct his 14 year old nephew to make some alteration to the script ) and naschy end up direct much of the film uncredited . zabalza do rally enough to clip some action scene from one of naschy previous movie and mark of the wolfman . the scene be fortunately good enough to use twice even if the costume be different and and help pad out the runtime after zabalza refuse to get out of bed to finish the movie . post production be a nightmare . nobody know who be do the editing and the money run out and the master print disappear for a while and and then at a pre release screen for a film distributor the executive arrive to find zabalza urinate into the gutter in front of the theater . he be too drunk to find the restroom but at least he make it to the curb . yet somehow the film work and if you let it . it key into those atavistic memory we have about murky castle and vault catacomb and chain and whip and gloomy moor . fan of those sort of thing will find it hypnotically watchable even if the story a a whole doesn not make much sense due to the fractured discontinuity of the execution . in one scene it pouring rain and the wolfman howl at the lightning while in the next shot it bone dry and he howl at the full moon . then it raining again . and yet you do not look at it a a gaffe . it like an unfolding dream where contradiction be possible and opposite be the same and and effect proceed cause while first the wolfman pick up the power cable and scream and and then the cable start spark with electricity . people say it low budget hurt the overall effectiveness i say the film would have be unwatchable if they have a dime more to spend . it be a marvel of make something out of nothing and and succeed not because of what it could of had and but because of what it do . it easy to laugh at stuff like this and even easy to dismiss it . the trick be be able to see through the mayhem and or rather to regard the chaos a part of the effect . paul naschy die last week at the age of 75. he have be ill with pancreatic cancer for a year or more and be work on film project right up until his last day and but pass away in madrid and spain and with his family while receive chemotherapy treatment . his rich and varied and and surprisingly lengthy career be a legacy to a man stubbornly pursue his artistic vision in the face of universal mainstream disinterest . and yet in all of u there be an eleven year old kid who will watch his movie like fury of the wolfman in rapt awe . even people who do not like euro horror will discover something in this movie to marvel at and if only for just a minute in a couple spot . you can find it for free at archive . org or even buy it on a dvd for a nickel . it worth far and far more . amusingly and naschy be horrify to learn that many others like myself regard this twisted and sick and demented little movie a a classic and if not an outright masterpiece of cinema dementia . the problem he encounter during the production and the mess of a film that be leave after be perhaps too personal an artistic disappointment for naschy to forgive . i would never presume to dare to forgive it for him and but i will say this represent i would rather watch fury of the wolfman in it dingiest and most cut and degrade fullscreen public domain print than ever sit though the overbearing and obnoxious crap churn out up at the swine flu cineplexes this or any other weekend . the world lose a great artist this month . watch his film and and remember . positive .