25 Best Werewolf Movies Ever Made

Spanish horror icon Paul Naschy played Dracula, Frankenstein's monster, a mummy, a zombie, the Hunchback of Notre Dame, and many other major monster characters during a highly prolific career. His signature role, however, always remained "El Hombre Lobo", the Wolf Man, Count Waldemar Daninsky.

Between the 60s and the 2000s, Naschy played Daninsky in eleven Hombre Lobo movies (possibly twelve as a legendary unreleased film, Las Noches Del Hombre Lobo, was reputedly made in the late 60s, but not even Naschy ever saw it and nobody knows anything about his supposed co-stars or director).

Naschy actually wrote the Daninsky role with the intention of the classic Wolf Man Lon Chaney Jr. filling the part, but the ageing star was not well enough to travel to Spain to film. Unable to find another appropriate actor to don the fur and fangs, Naschy stepped in himself.

In Naschy's first wolf movie a couple of gypsies accidentally revive an ancient werewolf who goes on a killing spree, turning Naschy's count into a beast like him. Daninsky seeks a cure for the condition from some doctors who turn out to be vampires and they instead set up a werewolf versus werewolf fight.

You do not, however, need to begin with this one. Unlike their inspiration in the Chaney Wolf Man films, which had some degree of ongoing continuity, Naschy's Hombre Lobo movies share nothing but the title character who gets a new origin each time. Any of them is worth a look for fans of cheap and cheerful old school monster fun.