#The Werewolf and the Yeti

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Night Of The Howling Beast (1975) - Directed by Miguel Iglesias Bonns

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La maldición de la bestia (1975)

AKA The Werewolf and the Yeti, Night of the Howling Beast, Hall of the Mountain King, Horror of the Werewolf

[thenefilim]

Review - The Werewolf and the Yeti

A look back at one of Spanish horror icon Paul Naschy’s most entertaining films, the wonderfully batshit The Werewolf and the Yeti.

https://www.voicesfromthebalcony.com/2023/02/23/the-werewolf-and-the-yeti-1975-review/

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THE WEREWOLF AND THE YETI aka NIGHT OF THE HOWLING BEAST Paul Naschy horror - free on Plex and Shout TV

The Werewolf and the Yeti is a 1975 horror film about a famous adventurer who joins an expedition to find the Yeti in the Himalayas. While hiking the mountains, he’s captured by two demon nymphets guarding a remote Buddhist temple and becomes their love slave. They transform him into a werewolf setting him loose to roam the mountain where he encounters sadistic bandits. It is the eighth in a long…

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Have you ever saw Yeti who is as adorable as baby 🍼

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Totally plan on making fluffy oneshots of monsters carving pumpkins.

*I spelled scarecrow wrong and only figured that out after posting, can't correct it now crap. Oh well.

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How do we spend time with the student body when we aren't bangin' like bunnies? Like, do we have a movie watch party with the werewolves, gaming marathon with Lidya, just a chill day with the Centipede? Playing sports, study group, etc. I am all for the fucking frenzy like everyone else, but I just wanted to know what are things we do together in our free time :v

Of course! There's lots to do around campus on a day-to-day basis, both organized by the university itself or just what the students like to do on their off time. It's a big part of monster culture to throw parties and hang out with people whether you know them really well or just met, so it's likely that you could be swept into a bush party or invited into someone's dorm to smoke or play board games without even knowing their names.

As for individual students, again, there's lots! With the werewolves being the jocks they are, they're most likely to go live it up at the frat parties and afterparties for the sports games or dances, so if drinking and partying in general is your thing you'll always have a group to go with you (and keep you safe!). Although you'll have to deal with their incessant clinginess when they inevitably get hangovers, and suffer through the touchiest cuddle piles imaginable if more than one or two of them are feeling nauseous or have headaches. If you've got plans the next day, definitely skip the hardcore partying with them the night before!

Lidya and Jude are probably the ones you'll hang out with the most since they're pretty much always available, and since nobody else really tends the arcade she can pretty much open and close it whenever she wants. So if you're in the mood, she'll open up a private or public gaming tourney and you can spend hours just hanging out, talking, and trying to beat each other at your favourite games, and once it gets late she'll get food delivered and you can watch a movie or something on the sofa in the backroom. The best part is that she's spent so much time tinkering with Jude's hardware that she's come up with a couple different devices to take him out into the real world! She has yet to make anything crazy like an android body (she's working on that as a future birthday gift) but for now she's got a keychain that has a modified USB and what looks like a little retro Tamagotchi; the USB is for her to plug into the arcade cabinets so she can upload his data and he can play alongside you guys, and the Tamagotchi has a pixely little version of Jude inside that she can take around so he doesn't get lonely. Whenever she's out of the arcade, there's a good 80-90% chance that she's got Jude with her, so if you wanna hang out you can do so pretty much anywhere! She can even plug him into the laptop she's got at her dorm, although the last time she did that he got ahold of some....ahem, sensitive file folders she wanted to keep private, so she'll only let him in there if you wanna watch something online with her in her room.

As for centipede, you hit the nail on the head! If Efraim's not in class he's usually getting high, so you can stop by his dorm day or night and get a free hit off him pretty much anytime. Don't get me wrong, there are definitely times when he's handsy or you can clearly tell he was planning on jerking off instead of entertaining company, but in general it's just harmless fun and you can just bum around his dorm doing nothing if you want. He's always in the mood to watch a movie or listen to music, and he's surprisingly not averse to cooking and not too bad at it either, so if you get hungry or you're just bored hell find something you two can make together to kill a couple hours. He does that a lot, you'll find--if there's a distinct lull in conversation or your mood shifts downward, he might offer, but most times he'll just quietly get up off the couch and go fix you something to eat. Even if it's just cutting an apple and some peanut butter or making you a sandwich, he fills time pretty well with putzing around the kitchen in the hopes of finding you something you really, really like. Do keep in mind that he's got roommates, however, and although Zombie can be a pretty amiable guy to share a space with...his slime roommate is less so. So if they're home, Efraim will probably try to keep your hangout to his bedroom to limit the distractions.

It may sound a little odd, but your yeti professor is pretty open to spending time together, too! Aryck holds baking lessons quite often and he's almost always in the kitchen, so if you're ever bored or looking to expand your culinary expertise he's usually around. You can even be his taste tester if you want, and hang around the classroom for an hour or two while he tests recipes and puts together his lesson plans for the next semester! It may feel a little awkward at first, but it turns into great fun once you open up to him a little more. A lot of the professors either spend much of their time on campus or are looking for assistance in some of their menial academic tasks, so you could probably find any professor you like and hang out with them awhile in exchange for some easy labour and snacks as a reward. The orc metalworking professor holds girls-only workshops weekly too, which is a great way to get to know the girls at school since they're all so friendly and are eager to make new friends! Go there once and you'll be invited to every sleepover and girl's night and brunch for the rest of the year! And of course, the resident doctor on campus is constantly cycling through "assistants" for his questionable medical trials, so if you're feeling brave you can come help him out and be treated to teatime afterwards.

The harpies are great fun, too! There's a group of them that live in the same dorm building as you do, and while they can be excitable and sometimes a little loud late at night, they're always eager to have company and will invite you in if you so much as pass by their door. They're not only great for parties or dances but they do a lot of studying together too, so they'd be happy to cram together for your exams and midterms! And they know all the professor's likes and weaknesses, so they'll get you any important info you may need if you have to appeal to them so they'll curve your grade. Plus, free snacks!

The university holds lots of intramurals for various sports all throughout the year, too, so even if you don't want to join a team or commit for a whole season you can still play with both the athletes and the casuals, and the pool is almost always open so swimming is a year-round option too. The werewolves and Priam do these a lot during the winter months when the football season is in a lull, so they'll always be up for pretty much any sport you wanna do and will be all too happy to show you how to play if you're a newbie. Plus, they've got rec rooms separate from the arcade in nearly every dorm building and in a few of the main academic buildings, which have the usual dartboards, pool tables, community game consoles, cards, board games, and D&D style books along with signup sheets to join oneshots or campaign groups. Many of the non-athletic clubs and groups gather in the rec rooms around campus, so it's a good way to get a feel for any extracurriculars you might wanna join! Antón runs a book club and Ollie's part of the chess team, for example, so if there's something you're interested in there's probably either someone you know that's in it or a professor you've got that's running it.

Of course, you could always attend sermons or the charity events the chapel holds too, if you feel so inclined--it may be intimidating to walk in knowing how the Archangel feels about you, especially where his protégé is involved. But Isaac would be more than happy to take your hand and show you around, and he'll stick to your side like glue during any events so you won't get caught alone with Mikael and have an interrogation thrown your way. He'll take the tongue-lashing happily in your stead once you're gone--he's used to the strict hand the high angels take anyways, and he's gone through the purity rituals so many times he could sleep through them at this point. If it means you're more likely to come around more often, he'll gladly sit through a lecture as many times as he needs to!

Also, whether you're a strong swimmer or can't swim at all, Nessie and the Kraken always somehow appear when you come to take a dip in the lake. Nessie's unashamedly competitive if you're good and will want to race and time how long you can hold your breath, but if you're not a swimmer at all, he and the Kraken will want very badly to teach you. It's more of Nessie's active guidance that you'll get as he holds you and shows you how to tread and paddle, but you can be reassured that if you ever get scared or the current pulls you down too far, the Kraken will rouse within moments and extend its tentacles from the depths to push you back up to the surface for air. If need be, it'll even carry you above the water and let you down once you're at the shore, or it'll let out that deep, rumbly cry to alert Nessie to your plight so he'll come splashing up to help you!

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assorted monsters

(sasquatch - vampire - swamp monster - harpy - lake monster - abominable snowman - werewolf - basilisk - blob monster)

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I have a new cryptid pin Kickstarter for cryptid and folklore nesting dolls! Just going over some of the creatures in the sets. The first set that unlocks will be these guys. The yeti, a legendary creature talked of in folklore around the Himilayas. Talked of as an ape-like creature. Original sightings purported to a dark-haired creature or an orangutan like animal, often thought to be misidentified bears. The yeti is commonly depicted with white hair nowadays, which historically seems to have started with a Bugs Bunny cartoon from 1961.

The Beast of Bray road is a werewolf like creature reportedly around a stretch of country road in Elkhorn, Wisconsin. First written about in 1991 by Linda Godfrey after reports of a bipedal animal came in. It wasn’t until after this that supposed older sightings were reported in. People claim to see the creature in the area occasionally as well as the similar Michigan dog man.

The fur-bearing trout is a fearsome critter, which are tall tales of lumberjack folklore in North America. Its roots may come from a similar Icelandic creature. The earliest written about it in the US comes from James Herbert Hickens who tells of it living in iceberg lakes in Glacier National park and that it “explodes upon being taken from the water” into different sections of fur, flesh, and meat “for refrigerator purposes, or eating.” Originally inspiration may have come from fish with cotton mold. Multiple hoax taxidermies of this creature can be found

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cryptid stickers!! i’m so happy with how they came out

again, these folks’ll debut at raicon, i’d LOVE to sell these online but i’m not sure i can have them on etsy at a fair price due to their fees ;•(

i AM learning though, so we’ll see how it goes!!

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The Werewolf and the Yeti a.k.a. La maldición de la bestia (1975) - VHS Cover

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I am spending my autumn crocheting cryptids! What should I do next?

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Some stuff from CryptidCon in Lexington, KY last November

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31 Days of Horror - Day 1

Night of the Howling Beast - 01/10/23  

For my first film I rolled is “Night of the Howling Beast”, a spanish film from 1975. This one was on my watchlist because of its status as a Video Nasty, a collection of films I had once thought about watching all of, before cherry picking ones I actually thought I might like. 

Despite not knowing until halfway through this film is was halfway through a series, this never hampered my understanding, and in fact, I think only increased it; the mere thought of what may happen in the previous films, all centred around the ever changing figure of the werewolf, is so alluring. 

When a movie opens with an alternate title to the one you’re expecting, this one’s being “The Werewolf and the Yeti”, it’s never a good sign. Despite this film’s low budget, I will put the name change down to regional differences, which may be the case. 

When I rolled this film, I was incredibly excited, firstly because it was a Video Nasty, which gives it an almost mythical status in my eyes, although not all of them live up to this idea. Secondly, because of its description:

“Waldemar, the renowned adventurer, joins an expedition to find the Yeti in the Himalayas. While hiking the mountains, he’s captured by two cannibalistic demon nymphets guarding a remote Buddhist temple and becomes their sex-slave. They transform him into a werewolf, setting him loose to roam the mountain where he encounters a sadistic bandit.”

With so many moving pieces, the film instantly was intriguing, a horror film that may be doing so much that it could never not be entertaining, regardless of the quality of the film itself. Yet around thirty minutes into the film, one section of the film is honed in on, and seldom left for the duration of the film, this being the bandits. 

For a movie about the Yeti and a Werewolf, it certainly fixates on the bandits more so, but I’m getting ahead of myself. 

Before delving any further into this film, I must address the version I watched. Through my searching, the only version I could find to watch in the UK was an English language dubbed version, which is often shotty, but in my opinion, entirely added to the charm of the film. Lines are delivered weirdly, and it is often impossible to tell if this is a result of the poor dubbing, or the intent of the actors, yet it works into this film's weird charm. With so much happening, the strange voice performances only made it easier to follow the story, which at times grew stale and meandering. 

The first thing that stood out to me about this film is the quality, grainy and cheap, an element which I feel only adds to its charm! It feels similar to me to Evil Dead, another, far more famous, Video Nasty, which also was made cheaply, therefore the film has a more raw effect, the gore especially stands out because of this; many films made during this era, in this quality, were feared to be snuff films, which leant to their banning in the UK. 

Beyond the quality, the cold open is nothing much, just two nameless deaths, before a series of freeze frames while the credits roll, which I must admit had me excited, the tone felt weirdly offbeat, unintentionally of course, yet there felt like heart behind its intent, even if watching in the modern day gives a far less scary effect. 

After this, we are introduced to our triage of protagonists, who left a varying impact on me. My favourite was Sylvia played by Mercedes Molina. Her role feels far more characterised, even if she falls into a series of stereotypes in the film, her character often a damsel in distress, yet the moments where she isn’t forced into this position are where she shines as a character, her heroic motivations are interesting, and her will breaks through these stereotypes she is so bound by. 

Next are the other two, Waldemar played by the writer of this film, alongside the rest of the series, Paul Naschy. The character is a “renowned adventurer”, joining Prof Lacombe, played by Josep Castillo Escalona in a search for the Yeti.

On this search, Waldemar wanders off, finding a cave where he stays in the company of two demon nymphs. Here the film picks up, and to me, is at its most interesting. The cave setting lends itself to creative cinematography, trapping the audience in the cave, where we watch curiously as he examines the location. These wide shots provide a look at the rocks that makes it appear gooey, like they’re melting, and although I cannot tell if this was intentional or a faulty prop, it adds an eeriness to it, the location feels gross, which is complimented by the orange baked lighting, every scene here feels warm, juxtaposing the icy Himalayas, the barron whites and timid blues are lost against this boiling pot. The reveal of the cannibalism isn’t shocking, but it does lend itself nicely to the warmth, the film is heating up, the world is changing as we should be expecting it. The gore here shines, as the Nymphs tear away at the skin. By the end of this tense sequence, Waldemar has been bitten, the nymphs dead, yet the film grows tiresome once more when we depart from him. The search party for him works well, yet the characters drag down any section that isn’t filled with crazy plotlines. 

Luckily, the section doesn’t last long, but it does show a worrisome sign for the future of the film. We return to Waldemar after he transforms, fulfilling half the film's title, yet the Yeti doesn’t appear until the final act. 

Although the following sequences of searching for Waldemar and his killing sprees as a werewolf aren’t dull, they lack much space to discuss for me. Therefore, my discussion skips forward, after he has been found, and reunited with his love, Sylvia, who throughout these sequences has stood as my favourite character. 

Finally, we are introduced to our central protagonists - not the Yeti, but two bandits. Their characterization feels somewhat scary, sure, yet I failed to be engaged with them after their introduction. Honestly, the film loses me here, as characters are captured, palaces are invaded and werewolf lore is sprung. The story feels worn thin somehow, these antagonists never interested me, and fit closely into the basic adventure archetypes. This especially is where I felt the adventure genre shine through in this film, where the werewolf can be cured, the villains can be defeated with certainty, and a heroic end can be met. Although I don’t mind this genre when it’s blended with horror, my issues lie in the boring story and flat characters. 

Although, after reviewing the film while writing this, there is far less time spent with the bandits than I had remembered - a sign, to me, of just how long it felt to drag on, how dull it grew as nothing happened for so long. The final series of final battles are nothing more than bland villains fighting mediocre heroes, and it almost makes you forget that one of them is cursed to be a werewolf.

Eventually, the villains are defeated, and the final problem arises before Waldemar can be freed of his curse - the Yeti. The whiplash created from watching a regular man fight a series of bandits, to then seeing a yeti is incredible, and I love the film for doing it. As much as I enjoy these final few minutes, a brawl to cap off the film, I did find an issue with just how similar the Yeti and werewolf designs are, but hey, I can live with that, because finally there is something silly happening again - I can breathe! The wide shots are bathed in a cool blue light, the frost not so much felt, but the effect is nice as the two indeterminable shapes attack one another. 

One final note I want to make is the stunts on this film - they take me back to my childhood of recording movies on Imovie, where you would throw a punch and narrowly miss your friends face as they scream. So much fun. 

As I draw this little discussion to a close - I hope it was somewhat coherent - I must say that I enjoyed this film through all its faults; I cannot understate how crazy so much of this films runtime is, I utterly adore that section of it, and while the ending portion, alongside some sluggish stuff towards the beginning, it was a fun watch, and one I will remember for ages alone, not just because of what happens, but because with an alternate title like “The Werewolf and the Yeti” it sure doesn’t show its Yeti too much, but when it does show this werewolf looking creature, the excitement is indescribable. 

6/10 <3