Werewolf Woman (1977)

Best movie of this year hands down!

A lot of fun.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

Soft porn Italian she-wolf horror with loads of throat-ripping, c-word yelling debauchery to offend almost everyone. A young woman (Borel) believes she's the reincarnation of a two hundred year family link to lycanthropy, and duly turns into a savage she-wolf during the full moon. Complicating matters, she's also sex-averse due to a harrowing experience when she was younger, seducing her victims before gorging on their blood in retribution for their misguided advances.Frequent disrobing by almost all of the female cast and a plethora of gory murders will appeal to some audiences, the line between mainstream feature film and sado-porn is sometimes teased, but never fully crossed. Dagmar Lassander has a largely extraneous and minor role, most of which is a sex scene, while Frederick Stafford does an amiable job as the inspector with an ever-burgeoning mountain of corpses, courtesy of our fair maiden Borel. For her part, Borel is intense and obviously committed to her performance, but the film's erratic narrative fails to focus and consequently, her role is shallow and uninvolving.Director Silvestro seems uncertain whether he's making a werewolf movie, attempting a mental health statement, a rape and revenge flick, or just a softcore trip with apparently divergent themes awkwardly woven into the tale that seems at times never-ending (I saw an uncut 100 minute version which despite all the climaxing throughout the movie, fails to deliver one at the film's sunset). Little suspense, just buckets of gore, nudity, self flagellation, various sexual acts and grade A profanity to pass the time. Bring it on.

This film had the most exciting opening scene during the credits that I have ever seen. It was erotically charged, and the werewolf was amazing! She had the longest nipples I have ever seen.What immediately followed was grade Z dialog and action. And those costumes must have been left over from some American Revolution epic.There is plenty of long lingering full frontal from Annik Borel and Dagmar Lassander and others. There is no shortage of boobs or thatch.All the elements of a good Euro-sleaze film are here: nudity, blood, rape, masturbation, lesbianism, and revenge.Sleaze is sleaze, but this was good sleaze.

Yes, The Werewolf Woman is all those things previously discussed: it's not about a werewolf really, it is emphasizing gore and sex - especially sex - far more than horror/genre devices and techniques, it has at times a pretty incomprehensible plot, and most importantly it is a whole lot of fun in a so-bad-its-good way. I thoroughly enjoyed this Italian horror film about a statuesque, blond, busty babe who has ancestors that were werewolves or something like that who begins to have recurring dreams based more aptly on her sexual repression. Well, she turns into something not quite determinate by the film's end, but what we get is a fun trip into bad film making, Italian sleaze, and all that makes exploitation films so enjoyable. Werewolf Woman is anything but predictable and it has some provocative scenes as well. The acting isn't stellar by any means, but the lead Annik Borel is just lovely and a pillar of voluptuous pulchritude. She heaves, she sighs, she rips her blouse off all the time. As for the horror elements, well, they are a little less than what you might expect with a film with this title, but all in all, this is a product of the Euro horror film trash/sleaze of the seventies - my favourite decade for bad films that are fun to watch!

This is quite a graphically violent and explicit film. It's much more graphic than I expected. It's not really a werewolf movie. There are violent attacks where throats are ripped out, but it doesn't really have the supernatural element we might expect. This is a case study of a woman who has been so badly abused that she loses her sense of self and strikes out against all men. Even when things begin to go well, it's as if she has been singled out for some kind of demonic punishment. Unfortunately, many others suffer her wrath, some deserving, others not. The scenes are pretty explicit and ugly. This is one of those movies that kind of grabs you but it's more like going to an auto wreck than something desirable. It's not badly made and moves pretty well. Be forewarned, however, that it isn't for all tastes.