The Werewolf Versus the Vampire Woman
The Werewolf Versus the Vampire Woman is a 1971 film from West Germany and Spain, directed by León Klimovsky, running 95 minutes. reelscum files it under fantaterror.
- Year
- 1971 · 1970s films
- Country
- West Germany · Spain
- Runtime
- 95 min
- Director
- León Klimovsky
- Updated
- 10 Aug 2026
- Obscurity
- cult (44/100)
- Also known as
- Shadow of the Werewolf · The Werewolf vs. Vampire Woman · Walpurgis Night · Werewolf Shadow · The Werewolf and the Vampire Woman · The Werewolf Versus the Vampire Woman
Defined in the glossary: Fantaterror
Naschy's Waldemar Daninsky at his most enjoyable.
Paul Naschy's Waldemar Daninsky, the tragic Spanish werewolf, at his most enjoyable. Two students seeking the tomb of a medieval vampire countess inadvertently revive her, and only Daninsky, cursed to become a wolf, can stop her, in a film that piles gothic atmosphere and monster action together with real conviction.
Naschy wrote it himself, as he did most of his vehicles, and his sincere love of the Universal monster tradition shows. It is one of the most popular entries in his long werewolf series.
A fine introduction to Spain's one-man monster factory, and a atmospheric gothic.
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Written about
- Fantaterror: the Spanish horror boom, 1968 to 1976
Two cuts of every film, one for the censor in Madrid and one for the drive-in. Democracy killed the trick in two years.
On these lists
- The Spanish horror shelf
Shot twice, dressed for the Madrid censor and naked for the drive-in. The blind Templars on skeletal horses are still the best monster on the shelf.
Filed alongside
Hunchback of the Morgue
Naschy's grisliest, and the one where the rats were not an effect.
Return of the Evil Dead
Blind Dead again, this time besieging a whole village. The best of the four.
The Ghost Galleon
The Blind Dead put to sea on a model boat in a visible fish tank. The runt of the four.
Night of the Seagulls
The Blind Dead ride out one last time. A quiet, sad closer to Spain's best monster series.
The Blood Spattered Bride
Spanish Carmilla adaptation with an unusually pointed anger about marriage.
Who Can Kill a Child?
Spanish, sun-bleached, upsetting. The opening newsreel is a hard sell.
Tombs of the Blind Dead
Eyeless Templars on skeletal horses in slow motion. Best monster design of the 70s.
The Loreley's Grasp
A Rhine myth relocated to Spain, with a monster that only works in long shot.
Let Sleeping Corpses Lie
Spanish-Italian, shot in England, and much smarter than its stablemates.
Horror Rises from the Tomb
A decapitated warlock's head, still working. Naschy wrote it himself.