FuzzyTagz If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

Rosie Searle It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Haven Kaycee It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film

Scarlet The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Michael_Elliott The Wolfman Never Sleeps (1972) * 1/2 (out of 4) Professor Waldemar Daninsky (Paul Naschy) is attacked by a creature in Tibet and finds himself changing into a werewolf just as he learns that his wife has taken on a lover. After being electrocuted to death, the werewolf is brought back to life by a sadistic female scientist with hopes that she can control him. This film is most widely seen under its American version known as THE FURY OF THE WOLFMAN. This here has to be one of the worst horror films ever made as it is shown P&S, has a lot of the violence/gore cut out and it's missing a few other scenes including some nudity. The uncut version, under the title THE WOLFMAN NEVER SLEEPS, is still a pretty bad movie but it's certainly the better of the two versions. No matter which one you watch you're going to witness a really embarrassing picture that screenwriter and star Naschy would blame on director Jose Maria Zabalza. It's clear that the director had no idea what he was doing and just by watching the film it seems that Naschy was telling the truth when he said that the director was constantly drunk. Many scenes are just thrown together with some of the worst editing that you're ever going to see. Many of the scenes never make too much sense and you're often struggling to understand what the story itself is trying to do. Even worse is that apparently the director didn't film enough werewolf scenes so we get clips from THE MARK OF THE WOLFMAN thrown in. Having the werewolf constantly changing looks is quite distracting to say the least. The werewolf make-up from this film isn't too bad but the transformation scenes are rather weak. In its uncut form even the violence and gore isn't all that memorable, although the added nudity is at least a minor plus. Naschy is decent in the role but he's certainly not given too much to do. The film remains somewhat watchable thanks in large part to how bad it is but because there's just an overall weird vibe about the entire thing. The stuff with the scientist makes little sense. The weird hippie-like nature is another thing that doesn't make much sense. Then of course there's the female werewolf that shows up at the end.

Jim-499 I recently discovered the Daninksy werewolf series when ThiS TV in the LA area showed "Frankenstein Vs Dracula" the second of the Daninsky werewolf movies (not taking into account his lost first movie). Afterwards, I went to IMDb.com and discovered the Daninsky Wolf Man character was recreated in many other movies until as late as 2004. I bought all the Daninsky werewolf movies on DVD that were available, one even on Blu-ray and thus far have seen four, "Fury OF The Wolf Man" being the fourth.The first three were much better and there was continuity between them unlike between they and the fourth, this one.I agree with most of the reviews--this is confusing and they even used a scene from the first Daninsky Wolf Man movie in this episode--were the werewolf bursts into an older couple's country home and murders both throwing the old man into the fire place--even though in the previous scene, the Wolf Man was in the city.If this is your first venture into the Daninsky werewolf series, don't give up. This is the worst (so far). The third, "Werewolf Vs The Vampire Woman" is the best (but I have not seen the final six).It was "Frankenstein Vs The Wolf Man (1943) that gave Paul Naschy the werewolf bug and the desire to make a series of movies on the subject. That movie had a profound effect on me as well when I was finally able to see it age 13; it was by far my favorite movie at the time. I'd since seen all the Lon Chaney Wolf Man movies so it is great to discover 10 more werewolf movies for another continuing character. It's like being 13 again.

poe426 THE FURY OF THE WOLFMAN isn't badly directed; what it IS is badly edited- VERY badly edited. In THE WOLF MAN (the Lon Chaney, Jr. version), there's a glaring continuity error: Chaney as Talbot, dressed in a white t-shirt and white pajama bottoms, settles back into a chair and lap-dissolves into The Wolf Man. Amazingly, his CLOTHES have likewise changed: he now wears a dark shirt, top button neatly buttoned, shirt tail tucked into a pair of dark, belted pants- just the thing to go skulking about in the dead of night looking for victims. Even as a kid, the error seemed to me to be a glaring one. Even so, THE WOLF MAN has NOTHING on THE FURY OF THE WOLFMAN. Like WEREWOLF OF London, things go awry for the hero in Tibet and he returns cursed. To make matters worse still, things actually manage to go downhill for Naschy from there! There's actually a fairly decent movie in here, somewhere, but the continuity gaffs (of which there are many) hamper it. The most glaring, of course, are the intercut scenes from two clearly different sequences: in one, Naschy as The Wolfman is dressed in a white shirt, in the other he's garbed all in black. (And, in the footage in which he's dressed in white, he's bouncing around in a crouch and growling his lungs out; in the scenes where he's decked out in black, he walks slowly and stiffly, like a zombie.) While it's far from being a classic, THE FURY OF THE WOLFMAN is still a fun film and a decent first attempt. As one of the characters puts it at film's end: "Not even the most fervent imagination could conceive of half of the horrors that we've seen..."

Steve Nyland (Squonkamatic) Someday somebody is going to write an essay comparing Paul Naschy's "Fury of the Wolfman" to the great Spanish surrealist films, "L'age D'or" and "Un Chien Andelou". The Naschy film is a masterpiece of delirium from beginning to end. Dali and Bunuel probably loved it, and ate their hearts out seeing someone do with such apparent ease what they had to rack their brains to pull off.The film lacks cohesive structure even though it does have a plot that moves from A to B to C. Some mishmash about a "Professor Walterman" -- his first name, mind you -- who was bitten by a Yeti monster during an expedition to Tibet and hasn't been the same since, which is understandable. One of his jealous colleagues, the insane daughter of the noted Doctor Wolfstein, knows about his condition and reveals that his wife has been cheating on him. But its a setup for a twisted scientific experiment to unleash his inner beast."Walterman" flips out, turns into a werewolf, kills a few people, is electrocuted, dies, is buried, unburied, taken to a castle filled with circus freaks, wired to various machines, zapped with assorted electronic effects, injected with potent elixirs, is chained up, turns into a werewolf, a woman in an evening gown with thigh-high Nazi fetish boots whips him, he escapes, helps the pretty female doctor find her way out of the castle, fends off the circus freaks with a battle axe, eventually turns back into a werewolf, and has to fight to the death against the female werewolf incarnation of his cheating wife. The lady with the Nazi boots shoots him with silver bullets from her Luger pistol, they die together, and the pretty doctor walks off into the morning with the studly reporter, who did nothing. "Look! What a beautiful day it is!" "La furia del Hombre Lobo" was written by Paul Naschy in a hurry. Original director Enrique Eguilez was fired and replaced by José María Zabalza, a drunk who was infamously intoxicated throughout the production. He was often unable to work (though he did find time to instruct his 14 year old nephew to make some alterations to the script) and Naschy ended up directing much of the film uncredited. Zabalza did rally enough to clip some action scenes from one of Naschy's previous movies, "Mark of the Wolfman". The scenes were fortunately good enough to use twice even if the costumes were different, and helped pad out the runtime after Zabalza refused to get out of bed to finish the movie. Post production was a nightmare. Nobody knew who was doing the editing, the money ran out, the master print disappeared for a while, and then at a pre-release screening for a film distributor the executive arrived to find Zabalza urinating into the gutter in front of the theater. He was too drunk to find the restroom but at least he made it to the curb.Yet somehow the film works, if you let it. It keys into those atavistic memories we have about murky castles, vaulted catacombs, chains, whips, gloomy moors. Fans of those sort of things will find it hypnotically watchable even if the story as a whole doesn't make much sense due to the fractured discontinuity of the execution. In one scene its pouring rain and the wolfman howls at the lightning; in the next shot its bone dry and he's howling at the full moon. Then its raining again. And yet you don't look at it as a gaffe. Its like an unfolding dream where contradictions are possible, opposites are the same, and effects proceed causes; First the wolfman picks up the power cable and screams, and then the cable starts sparking with electricity. People say its low budget hurts the overall effectiveness -- I say the film would have been unwatchable if they had a dime more to spend. It is a marvel of making something out of nothing, and succeeds not because of what it could of had, but because of what it does. It's easy to laugh at stuff like this and even easier to dismiss it. The trick is being able to see through the mayhem, or rather to regard the chaos as part of the effect.Paul Naschy died last week at the age of 75. He had been ill with pancreatic cancer for a year or more, was working on film projects right up until his last days, but passed away in Madrid, Spain, with his family while receiving chemotherapy treatment. His rich, varied, and surprisingly lengthy career is a legacy to a man stubbornly pursuing his artistic vision in the face of universal mainstream disinterest. And yet in all of us there is an eleven year old kid who will watch his movies like "Fury of the Wolfman" in rapt awe. Even people who don't like Euro Horror will discover something in this movie to marvel at, if only for just a minute in a couple spots. You can find it for free at Archive.Org or even buy it on a DVD for a nickel. It's worth far, far more.Amusingly, Naschy was horrified to learn that many others like myself regard this twisted, sick, demented little movie as a classic, if not an outright masterpiece of Cinema Dementia. The problems he encountered during the production and the mess of a film that was left after were perhaps too personal an artistic disappointment for Naschy to forgive. I would never presume to dare to forgive it for him, but I will say this: I'd rather watch "Fury of the Wolfman" in its dingiest, most cut and degraded fullscreen public domain print than ever sit though the overbearing, obnoxious crap churning out up at the Swine Flu cineplexes this or any other weekend.The world lost a great artist this month. Watch his films, and remember.9/10