Los Monstruos del Terror
| Assignment Terror | |
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Theatrical release poster
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| Directed by |
Hugo Fregonese Eberhard Meichsner Tulio Demicheli |
| Produced by | Jaime Prades |
| Written by | Jacinto Molina |
| Starring |
Paul Naschy Michael Rennie Karin Dor |
| Music by |
Rafael Fitó Franco Salina |
| Cinematography | Godofredo Pacheco |
| Edited by | Emilio Rodríguez |
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Production
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Eichberg-Film
International Jaguar Cinematografica Producciones Jaime Prades |
| Distributed by |
American International Pictures (USA, theatrical), Castilla Films (Spain) |
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Release date
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Running time
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85 minutes(Spain) |
| Country | Spain West Germany Italy |
| Language | Spanish |
Los Monstruos del Terror (English: The Monsters of Terror), also known as Dracula vs. Frankenstein, Reincarnator and Assignment Terror, is a 1970 Spanish-German-Italian horror film directed by Tulio Demicheli, Hugo Fregonese and Eberhard Meichsner. The last two filmmakers were uncredited in the film's original print. It stars Paul Naschy, Michael Rennie, Karin Dor and Craig Hill. It is the third in a series of movies featuring the werewolf Waldemar Daninsky, always played by Naschy.
Monstruos del Terror was originally slated to be called "The Man Who Came From Ummo", referring to Michael Rennie's spaceman character. It was followed by the 1970 film The Fury of the Wolfman.
Aliens, running a traveling circus as a cover, revive a vampire, a werewolf, a mummy and Frankenstein's monster with a plan to use them to take over the world. They want to discover the reason that these monsters are so frightening to Earthlings. They then plan to use their findings and resurrect the monsters to destroy the people of Earth. For reference, the aliens use a book entitled "Anthology of the Monsters" by Professor Ulrich von Farancksalan, who was also the creator of the analog to Frankenstein's monster in this picture.
The werewolf they revive (Waldemar Daninsky) saves the world by destroying the other 3 monsters in hand-to-hand combat and ultimately blowing up the aliens's underground base, although he is shot to death in the process by a woman who loves him enough to end his torment. The werewolf has no specific origin in this film; it is assumed that the events in this film are continued from the ending of La Marca del Hombre Lobo (The Mark of the Wolfman, 1968), in which Daninsky was transformed into a werewolf through the bite of a werewolf named Imre Wolfstein. (Strangely, The Wolfman was killed in the same exact manner in that first film, but the aliens surgically remove the silver bullets to revive him).
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