Details

Release year: 1961

Storyline

In eighteenth-century Spain, an adopted boy becomes a werewolf and terrorizes the inhabitants of his town.

Top credits

Directors

Terence Fisher

Writers

Cast

Clifford Evans — Alfredo
Oliver Reed — Leon
Yvonne Romain — Servant Girl
Catherine Feller — Cristina

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Did you know

• The film forgoes the more popular (and 20th century) myth that a person bitten by a werewolf will become one. Instead, it invokes the much older idea that a child born on Christmas Day will be the victim of the lupine curse. In many European countries, it was believed that such a child was competing with the assumed birth of Jesus Christ and that the curse was a punishment for blasphemy.

• According to the documentary "Flesh and Blood: The Hammer Heritage of Horror (1994)" the Spanish setting for this film was forced upon writer Anthony Hinds after Michael Carreras had the studio back-lot dressed for a film about the Spanish Inquisition. This film was not produced because the American, Catholic Legion of Decency threatened to ban it.

• This is the only werewolf film made by Hammer Studios.