Paul Naschy returns as Waldemar Daninsky, the man perpetually cursed to be turned into a Werewolf, cured, or killed over and over again forever. This time round he's heading up the Himalayas to take on vampire women, some descendant of the Great Khans, and right near the end...a yeti! I LOVE these films.Let's get the plot out of the way: Paul this time is an explorer who heads off to the Himalayas on the flimsy pretext of finding a yeti with his loyal entourage in tow. He gets separated from the rest while looking for some dangerous pass and ends up in the company of two sexy evil women who keep him as a sex slave until he discovers them eating human flesh. While fighting them to the death, he is bitten and from then on out becomes a werewolf every time the moon rises.This is actually quite lucky because the rest of his group have been caught by a bunch of Ghengis-Khan like warriors, the leader of whom has a really bad skin complaint that his evil medical lady insists can only be cured by draping human skin over it. Cue gory skinning scene! Paul Naschy will have to bring all his lycanthropic skills with him to sort out these jerks.That's that out the road, so let's talk about what makes this film so much fun: you'll be clued in on how brain-melting this one is when "Scotland The Brave" plays over footage of London, then there's the hilarious transformation sequences where Naschy rolls about the ground like he's suffering from severe gastroenteritis, and the bit where Victor Isreal freaks out, runs off, screams off-screen likes he's fallen off a cliff, and yet when Nascy goes to investigate he finds footprints leading off into the distance.You'll also spend a considerable amount of time wondering if the Yeti is even going to make an appearance, and when it does about five minutes from the end of the film, it looks almost exactly like the werewolf, which makes the last battle of the film really confusing. Ultra-low budgets and dodgy effects aside, Nascy always delivers on the goods and therefore the film is packed with werewolf attacks, fighting and gore isn't boring for a minute. Just leave your brain fallow when watching and you'll enjoy. This was inexplicably banned as part of the Video Nasties panic and has never been re-released!

With a title like THE WEREWOLF AND THE YETI you know what you're getting for your money - a schlock European horror that has a certain notoriety because it was banned by the UK video censors . To be honest the film has a great opening hook that caused this viewer to jump out his seat . Then we get a blast of music that doesn't really go with the film along with lurid garish titles . So far so good The film then cuts to a panning establishing shot of a city with bagpipes playing over the soundtrack which can only mean we are in one place , the home of the bagpipes and tartan - London England . It's at this point the producers of this film should forget all about werewolves and Yeti and start worrying about five million angry Scotsmen This then cuts to an interior where two characters Professor Lacombe and Waldemar Daninsky mention photographic evidence of the Yeti via an expedition that went missing in Kathmandu . Lacombe tells Daninsky he is going to lead an expedition and wants Daninsky to come along because he " knows Tibet and speaks Nepalese " . You can't help thinking this is a goof of sorts because what's the use of knowing Nepalese if you're going to Tibet which would be behind the bamboo curtain and inaccessible to Westerners . I wonder if the makers thought Nepal and Tibet are the same place . I mean if you confuse London with Scotland Cut to some images of vaguely oriental architecture which I'm guessing is to signify Nepal and an interior shot which could have been anywhere with the expedition members discussing getting a guide in Kathmandu . Eh ? Aren't they supposed to be in Kathmandu ? Why do characters feel the need to constantly spout that they're in Kathmandu . It merely draws the audiences attention to the fact that this wasn't filmed in Kathmandu . By the way Nepal is a Hindu country and the expedition guide looks suspiciously like a Sikh . He also calls everyone " Sahib " an Indian phrase . Note to producers : If you're trying to set a scene in Kathmandu get half a dozen Nepalese extras and get them to smile and say " Hey my friend where you from ? You want hash ? / a trekking guide ? / a sexy Nepalese woman ? " because this will be totally convincingCut to a jeep driving slowly along a path with a couple of stone huts by the roadside with the camera locked head on in a close shot with a couple of Oriental actors walking by . I guess this is a vain attempt to establish the action is taking place in a remote area of Nepal or Tibet . Let me guess - since this is a Spanish film this scene was shot in Spain somewhere ? Cut to a remote village in Nepal/Tibet /Spain where the primitive natives enchant the expedition with some traditional folk dancing which I have seen and can verify its authenticity . Not from Nepal but on travel shows featuring Barbary Coast folk dances . Hmmm Barbary Coast folk dances in Nepal/Tibet ? It becomes very clear by this point that the notoriety surrounding this film has nothing to do with any horror aspect but everything to do with the makers not bothering their backsides to research even the most cursory aspect of the narrative settings . That said it is absolutely fascinating pointing out to yourself each and every blatant geographical mistake the movie makes so there is some fun to this movie and that's not necessarily a bad thing

Here's a wacky adventure-horror film with splats of gore, a few sexy ladies and two famous monsters. Made in the 70's, The Werewolf And The Yeti was banned in Britain during the Video Nasty madness of the 80's for reasons even harder to fathom than usual, and stayed banned.The yeti attacks some folks in Tibet before the credits have rolled, immediately establishing the pace for the film: fast! Within minutes the good guys have thrown together a major expedition and are trekking through the Tibetan mountains in an attempt to find out what weird stuff is going on up there. The answer is complicated. The superstitious sherpas won't stop raving about demons in this land, but the real problem is the shrine-guarding vampire women who like a bit of male-straddling on the one hand and snarling like hyenas as they fight over bloody entrails on the other. The hero does manage to escape from this delicate web of sex and violence, but not before he's been afflicted with the curse of werewolfism! As if life isn't complicated enough, the yeti's still at large and evil raiders are starting to attack folks indiscriminately all over the mountains. This all makes for the sensation of as much action as it sounds like it would. Somehow the film achieves a consistently tense feel, more by the portentous way that everyone talks about the situations they're in than by the actual portrayal of those situations. This isn't to downplay the considerable amount of action that there is, including gunfights, swashbuckling, dungeon torture and monster combat. But I do regard this likable film as a triumph of what's good about exploitation - getting maximum cinematic effect out of modest resources. Technically it's good too. I don't know if some mountain stuff was shot day for night, but the intense blue scenes in the snow are atmospheric, as is the oft-scary score. Note however that the use of 'Scotland The Brave' on the soundtrack over establishing shots of England is of a different kind of scary, as is a lot of the dubbed dialogue.Macroscopic logic isn't The Werewolf And The Yeti's strong point, but few films throw together as many elements as this one does and still achieve something basically coherent, fun and with good exploitation bang for your buck. Seeing this film made me wish they still made stuff like this today.

This film stands out while looking at the DPP list of Video Nasties due to its wacky title. However, that's not to say that the film itself is one of the more interesting on the list...as it's actually just a collection of ideas, mercilessly thrown together with barely any coherence or point. Many of the ideas in the film have lead to good films in their own right; here we have a plot involving a werewolf curse (well done in The Wolf Man), a hunt for the yeti (well done in The Abominable Snowman) and a sorceress (well done in many fairy tales). However, it all feels very random and the plot running through all these ideas fails to be interesting at every turn, thus making the film very boring indeed. The story itself takes place after an expedition into the Himalayas to find living proof of the mythical Yeti. Renowned adventurer Waldemar is part of the expedition, and the story picks up when he is captured by two demon women. After being turned into both their sex slave and a werewolf, he is set free to roam the surrounding land.The plot sounds like it's going to make for a very interesting movie, which makes it all the more disappointing that this isn't. The Yeti is a creature that has lead to a load of rubbish films, including fellow Video Nasty 'Night of the Demon', and family flick 'Bigfoot and the Hendersons'. I've got to say that I came to realise during this movie that I don't like movies set in the snow very much; the location doesn't seem to make for a very interesting setting. The film is notable for the fact that it was written by and stars Jacinto Molina; also known as Paul Naschy, who is apparently a big name in Spanish horror cinema, although this the first film that I've seen from him. Despite the fact that this film was banned in the UK back in the eighties, it's not very gory; thus making it one of the disappointing entries on the list that didn't really deserve to be banned. The only real good (or bad, depending on how you look at it) scene sees a young girl skinned. Overall, I really can't recommend going out of your way to find a copy of this film. It's not easy to come by, but thankfully I didn't have to spend too much to see it.