Casa del terror, La (1960)
 | Directed By: Gilberto Martinez Solares |
| Written By: Fernando de Fuentes, Juan Garcia & Gilberto Martinez Solares | |
| Starring: Lon Chaney Jr., Yerye Beirute, German Valdes ... | |
| Running Time: 60 min | |
| Release Date: 24/03/1960 | |
| Availability: Limited / Unavailable | |
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An evil professor who owns a wax museum of horrors is secretly experimenting with raising the dead, using the blood of his night watchman Casimiro, which he drains without his knowledge. Meanwhile, the mummified body of the Wolf Man has been found in an Egyptian sarcophagus. The professor and his two assistants steal the body and take it back to the lab, but his attempts to revive the corpse appear to fail. But an electrical charge brings the man back to life, who then turns into a werewolf under the full moon and goes on a rampage.
By this point, I suppose Lon Chaney Jr.'s career had really begun to fall apart. Perhaps donning his Wolf Man makeup for one last time in this Mexican horror movie, something he hadn't done since his Universal pictures in the forties, was an attempt to revive his failing stardom. Or perhaps he just needed the work. It has been said that the official worst director of all time, Edward D. Wood Jr., directed Chaney in the climatic scene of this movie. Segments from La Casa del terror were later used in "Face of the Screaming Werewolf" four years later.