Born Jacinto Molina Alvarez, Paul Naschy played every horror villain from Count Dracula to Dr Fu Manchu, but he was best known for playing Waldemar Daninsky (aka The Wolf Man) in a series of cheaply-made Spanish exploitation films. The Werewolf And The Yeti is the 8th of the 12 Daninsky films, and its one of the most ludicrous, with Naschy captured (and used as a sex slave) by a pair of female vampires while searching for the Yeti in the Himalayas. When he attempts to escape, they bite him and transform him into El Hombre Lobo, setting up everything you could want from a Yeti vs werewolf movie. Theres nudity, flagellation plus several torn out throats, and even though the climactic confrontation takes up about a minute of screen time, it was enough for the BBFC to ban the movie in 1984. The film has never been resubmitted for classification and so remains banned.
Ian Watson is the author of 'Midnight Movie Madness', a 600+ page guide to "bad" movies from 'Reefer Madness' to 'Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead.'
