The Blind Dead
05-07-2007, 09:41 AM
Jacinto Molina, better known as Paul Naschy, is what some might call a triple threat. The man can write, direct and act and in many cases he’s done all of those for the same film! Ya gotta admire that kind of drive because any weaker man would have just simply chosen one field and stuck with that. Do you know this guy has portrayed the same character, Waldemar Daninsky (The Werewolf), at least thirteen times! Granted, some of his wolf man films have been less than stellar and every now and then I find some of his work redundant but you can’t hit homeruns all the time.
I often wonder how such a prolific writer/direct/actor can be so damn underrated in a genre obsessed with horror icons. You’d also think with foreign horror being so popular today that he’d be well known but that just doesn’t seem to be the case. I see and hear fans talk (read: bitch) more about Uwe Boll and his misfires than Paul Naschy and his successes and that’s a goddamn shame. Far be it from me to tell people what to talk about but I’d much rather discuss Panic Beats and Blue Eyes of the Broken Doll than House of the Dead and BloodRayne but that’s just me I suppose.
When I first got my hands on this film I kept thinking it was The Werewolf versus Vampire Women (Noche de Walpurgis, La) but alas, no, Night of the Werewolf may be similar but it’s definitely a different film. Night of the Werewolf is a visually stunning and wonderfully atmospheric werewolf film that, while occasionally erring on the repetitive side, is worth every moment spent...[READ MORE HERE] (http://www.joehorror.com/0000800.html)
I often wonder how such a prolific writer/direct/actor can be so damn underrated in a genre obsessed with horror icons. You’d also think with foreign horror being so popular today that he’d be well known but that just doesn’t seem to be the case. I see and hear fans talk (read: bitch) more about Uwe Boll and his misfires than Paul Naschy and his successes and that’s a goddamn shame. Far be it from me to tell people what to talk about but I’d much rather discuss Panic Beats and Blue Eyes of the Broken Doll than House of the Dead and BloodRayne but that’s just me I suppose.
When I first got my hands on this film I kept thinking it was The Werewolf versus Vampire Women (Noche de Walpurgis, La) but alas, no, Night of the Werewolf may be similar but it’s definitely a different film. Night of the Werewolf is a visually stunning and wonderfully atmospheric werewolf film that, while occasionally erring on the repetitive side, is worth every moment spent...[READ MORE HERE] (http://www.joehorror.com/0000800.html)