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4.0 out of 5 stars
aka Naked Werewolf Woman, October 29, 2003
This awesome Euro cult film is about Danielle (Annik Borel) who was traumatised in her youth and now, as a young woman, believes herself to be the reincarnation of a long dead werewolf ancestor. She has a phobia of men and sex, and when her sister (Dagmar Lassander) returns home from study overseas with her new husband, she kills him thus begining a decent into madness and murder. Despite the title, the only werewolf in the film appears in the opening scene in which Danielle is having a nightmare of her ancestor (also played by Annik Borel) dancing naked then transforming before being caught by a mob of pitch-fork brandishing and torch waving villages, who burn her at the state like a witch. So if you want a standard werewolf movie, then maybe you should check out a Naschy instead, but for anyone who likes good a Euro flick or giallo then I highly recomend this one. The film has a great cinematic style with occasional spatterings of gore and generous helpings of nudity. Annik Borel is brilliant playing the werewolf woman as she manages to look genuinely detached and vunerable then instantly snapping to a furious insane rage. In the hands of a lesser leading lady the film would probually fail. BUYER BEWARE however. As great as this film is, this 'Shriek Show' DVD version maybe uncut but is however incorrectly framed and missing picture information on all sides. There is a much better R2 Japanese DVD out there (which I own) but it is more expensive and requires region free equipment. Overall a 5-star film with a poor 1-star DVD presentation.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
no werewolves, May 27, 2007
Just a lot of nudity, yelling, killing, and near misses from rapists. What we have here is a woman who is apparently the descendant of a woman who was a werewolf. She gets raped and I guess this lets her tap into her ancestery, which in turn lets her just go absolutely nuts for the rest of the movie. No werewolf transformation, though. She is affected by the moon, but it doesn't turn her into a furball. It just turns her into a murderer. So she goes on a rampage and kills a lot until she finds love. I won't spoil things from there, but if you watch the movie you're going to know where it's going by then. It's a great movie. Get it in the Wicked Women three pack though. Same DVD as here, just two other freebies basically.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Wicked 3 Pak, May 8, 2011
This is a great deal for the price - 3 movies on 3 seperate disks. I'd have to note that there was a discrepency between the advertised product & what I received - the cover art & description showed the film 'Nightmares' as included but the set actually included 'Wicked Lake' as the third flik. To me this was a little disappointig as I already owned a copy of 'Wicked Lake' - but to others, perhaps, no problem. I actually purchased this set to get the film 'Werewolf Woman' and I was not disappointed in it! This was a totally over the top Italian effort that tells the tale of a family where one of the daughters, purportedly raped as a young teen, develops an aversion to men & sex and forms a psychic bond with a female lycanthropic ancestor. Her psychosis leads her to viciously attack and kill a variety of men and women as the tale unfolds - although she does not actually metamorph into a werewolf in the process. There is a lot of psycho-babble by doctors trying to figure the girl out and detectives also enter the scene as the body count grows - making this a bit of a cross-over between the horror and giallo traditions. Nudity abounds throughout with very attractive Italian actresses shedding their clothes. The film starts with sort of a flash-back sequence behind the titles showing the 'ancestral' werewolf woman who DOES transform into a hairy monster after a wild naked dance - the make-up was produced by a young Carlo Rambaldi who has since gone on to major Hollywood creature spfx fame - the wolf woman features some pretty unusual hairy breasts with long black nipples. Although a little uneven in spots - this one's 'a keeper'! "Wicked Lake" takes much of its' inspiration from the grindhouse 'roughies' - it focuses on 4 really hot girlfriends who are heading off for a weekend at a lakeside cabin - and has a lot of initial elements that are reminiscent of Tarantino's 'Death Proof'. The girl's party is 'crashed' by several assemblages of ner-do-well guys who are determined to have their way with the comely group and they tie the girls up and start to heap humiliation & abuse upon them until the clock strikes 12 and a startling transformation occurs. Seems that the four lovlies are actually immortal witches and the tables are turned with gleeefully gruesome results. This flik has a tongue-in-cheek, self parodying, vibe to it that makes it pretty enjoyable and the girls are gorgeous and get naked a lot. The third disk in the set, "Flesh For the Beast", follows a group of psychic investigators that visit a haunted mansion that was once a bordello established by an evil Alistair Crowley type of individual. As the group of guys wander around the spooky old place looking for paranormal activiy they keep coming upon lovely young ladies who seem to read their sexual fantasies and seduce them before turning into demonic monsters and eating them! There is not a lot of 'character development' before each of the hapless group are horribly dispatched until only one, female, investigator remains at the films 'suprise' conclusion. The definite highlight of this disk are the 'fantasy' sex scenes performed by the ensembles 3 demonesses - a little 'shallow' but it moves right along. All of the DVDs have a goodly selection of 'extras' included making this a pretty sweet package for the money. Recommended, if you like your women 'wicked'!
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