Tomb of the Werewolf (2004)

Powerful

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

As Good As It Gets

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

Elizabeth Bathory(Michelle Bauer, REALLY getting into the role)agrees to sacrifice female victims..and, most importantly, bathe in their blood..to her Lord Lucifer in exchange for eternal beauty and youth. A broke, yet brimming with charm, final descendant of the cursed Daninsky line, Richard(Olen Ray alum, Jay Richardson)asks for the face, Melanie(Danielle Petty)and producer Tony(Leland Jay)of the low-rent television program, Current Mysteries, to host a show at his family's European home of the infamous late Waldemar Daninsky(Paul Naschy, merely in it for a little bit to get paid, but one can see he at least cares). Waldemar was on the verge of losing his beloved Eleanor(Stephanie Bentley)to the black plague when Ebath posed an offer he doesn't refuse..in exchange for Eleanor's life, he sells his soul to Lucifer's angel, yet in return is cursed with lycanthropy. It is written he attacked, and killed, Eleanor when under the full moon curse. Imprisoned and killed with a silver cross embedded in his heart, Ebath will hypnotically force Richard to release Waldemar from his slumber, removing the large dagger as the werewolf emerges from his crypt to kill again. During the day we see a weary Waldemar looking on in sadness from the bushes and over cornered walls of his estate and the crew of Current Mysteries remain around the manor conducting their affairs. What Richard was seeking is supposed treasure, but this was merely a ruse by Ebath for unleashing Waldemar once again as anyone who has the misfortune of standing in the path of the werewolf will be torn into. Meanwhile, aging skin will force Ebath to chose another victim of the Current Mysteries crew for their blood.Well, to be honest, this is a sex movie without the special ingredient one watches it for. In actuality the film is smut masquerading as a horror film..perhaps, that's why the sex scenes are removed. The distributer perhaps wanted this film to be marketed as a legitimate werewolf horror flick..to it's credit there is some werewolf carnage. Some torn throats as flesh is ripped away as the werewolf munches away quite rabidly. Bauer really just let's it hang out as E Bathory just bathing in the red stuff and slurping away. In the version I watched, there's ample nudity(mostly breasts)and the lesbian sequences consist of groping and kissing. The cast is equipped with porn stars so you ought to know where this film's head is mostly at..but, without the sex, the film really only consists of bad actors and uninspired dialogue. I rented it as a Paul Naschy/werewolf completest, but one shouldn't go into this thing expecting a massive amount of thrills. At least if the sex had remained, a certain crowd could've had that aspect for pleasure. As is, the film is cheaply made trying to have us believe the setting is in Europe with poor effects. For Fred Olen Ray fans only. Danielle Petty is quite striking as the raven-haired Melanie..both in and out of clothes.

WARNING! Do not be fooled by the fancy graphics on the DVD cover. It's a trap! Put this movie back on the shelf immediately! Proceed to the nearest bathroom, and wash your hands with a combination of gasoline and steel wool.This steaming pile is nothing more than a porn producer's attempt at making a horror movie. Think of Tomb of the Werewolf as a porno with "actors" wearing Halloween masks bought from their local hardware store. This production company should be hanged with a latex werewolf dildo, toot sweet! Note: I think there should be a federal law put into place. DVD covers should represent the actual content of their movies. The cover on this DVD is a case of pure fraud!

*SPOILER ALERT* *SPOILER ALERT*"Tomb of the Werewolf" is about breasts. Naked female breasts. It is not about a Tomb or a Werewolf. There is a wolf man running around but he's just filler until the next breast scene. He just liked to bite into people's necks and then run off. He couldn't run away too fast or else his wolf man beard would have flown off.So a bunch of hunky men and hot women head to an old castle to look for breasts. It doesn't take them long to find them. Beverly Lynne and some other babes take their shirts off with gleeful abandon. It must be the full moon. It brings out the animal in them. Michelle Bauer is the maid of the castle and keeps everyone zonked out on booze and boobies. She has a thing for hairy monster men. Many breasts must come out to play before the beast can be stopped.Suffice to say, this is not a horror movie. However, I did enjoy this film simply because I am a die hard Michelle Bauer fan. Seeing the wolf man run around with his fake beard flopping in the wind almost made me die hard. But then again, seeing Michelle Bauer join the party and take her top off made me jump for joy. Her scene with the girl wearing the blindfold was the highlight of the movie.So once again Michelle Bauer saves another B-movie from total destruction. If you're a Bauer fan, check it out. She's still got it.

A man who recently inherited a European castle with a rumored hidden treasure invites the buxom crew from a television supernatural show to help him find the treasure. I said buxom crew, because, I believe, that is the whole point of this film. After pre-title sequence where our buxom villainies offers a buxom victim to a strangely-annoyed Lucifer, who appears via a bad special effect, we skip ahead a couple hundred years to the present day where the buxom host of the television show starts getting naked on the sofa with her producer boyfriend, and then…. Wait a minute. Was I hitting on a subtle leitmotif? I decided to hit pause button and went to the trusty IMDb to see whether I was watching a horror movie or soft core porn. I was right to suspect the latter. It seems director Fred Olen Ray has done quite a bit of soft core. Oh well. Nothing wrong with that, unless you were hoping to see a horror movie and there wasn't any thing scary here unless you have an unnatural fear of breasts. Ray, however, is a true professional and he moves things along at a brisk pace, so it really doesn't matter too much if the level of acting fails to rise above that of soft core porn or if the 'action' music theme sounds like a refugee from a mid-90's video game. No thrills or scares here, but if you like breasts….