So it's been nine years since Waldemar Daninsky last appeared on the screen, and thirteen years since the last full-blooded Daninsky film. The real question is we have to ask is, after all these years does Daninsky still have bite? Well, no, not really. It isn't Molina's fault, though -- in this installment the director Francisco R Gordillo made the decision to cut out much of the more graphic, gratituous content that made the previous films in the saga so popular with audiences. Without it, it just doesn't feel like a 'Naschy' movie. It seems that the director wanted to focus on the younger characters, since he figured people wouldn't be interested in seeing a film about a 66 year old werewolf. Molina himself disliked the end result and vowed to make another Daninsky film in order to end the saga on the same high note on which it started.

This film itself is a good concept from Molina, with the usual metaphorical superstitious and sexual elements on show (though watered down somewhat), and this time a bit of politics. But again, elements of the screenplay were cut out by the director so this film isn't nearly as good as it probably could have been. The production values are as good as you can expect from these movies, and though Molina's performance isn't quite as spirited as in his slightly younger days he still knows how to carry a good horror story. The dark and captivating appeal of the rest of the franchise is lacking here, but thanks to Molina it still has its moments that make it worth watching.

"Lycanthropus" is another rare Daninsky offering, not in the same vein as the previous films and very hard to find at all (never mind dubbed into English), but all the same one that fans will certainly want to check out.

The Wolf So Daninsksy is still searching for a way to end his life ... although this film does raise the question of, since Daninsky is clearly getting older, surely he isn't going to live forever anyway? One good thing about this film is that in creating the werewolf it takes advantage of special effects that most likely weren't available to Molina when he must making his previous films. On the other hand, this is necessarily a good thing since the werewolf here bears little resemblance to the Daninsky we all know and love (see bottom photo). It does make use of computer effects for the very first time in this saga, though, and does it to reasonably good effect in a single transformation scene. It actually comes as a bit of a shock to see an effect like that in a Daninsky film, and is certainly one of the better moments here. Not everyone agrees with the use of CG in werewolf films, but with these kinds of effects the transformations can actually be a bit awkward at times, especially if you don't have the budget or the technical genius of oh, say, Rick Baker.

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