#assignment terror

Paul Naschy as Waldemar Daninsky & Patty Shepard as Ilsa Sternberg

Paul Naschy as Count Waldemar Daninsky, the Werewolf Ferdinando Murolo as The Monster of Frankenstein

Aliens from a dying world plot to conquer earth by praying on man’s superstitions. Bringing two dead scientists (Michael Rennie and Karin Dor) back to life, they use their knowledge to re-animate various earth monsters, including the werewolf Waldemar Daninsky, Frankenstein’s monster (both played by Jacinto Molina), the mummy Tao-Tet, and the vampire Count de Meirhoff.

Assignment Terror | 1970

Carried Away By A Moonlight Shadow

los monstruos del terror (sp/wger/it, demicheli/fregonese 70)

R.I.P. Karin Dor. I have had a mad crush on Karin Dor since I saw her in The Face of Fu Manchu in the early 90s. Face, coincidentally, fumed out to become my favorite Christopher Lee movie. She had quite a career in Europe playing in various horror movies (where she became sort of a second-string Barbara Steele) but in her home country of Germany, she was famous for the obscene amount of krimi films she made (many with Fu Manchu co-star Joachim Fuchsberger) as well as several German westerns. She may be best known as femme fatale Helga Brandt in the last Sean Connery Bond movie worth a damn, You Only Live Twice, where for whatever reasons they made her far less attractive as a redhead. Perhaps her most prestigious role was that of dictator John Vernon’s wife in Alfred Hitchcock’s Topaz. I’m not exactly sure why, but I always wanted to meet Karin. Maybe it was to get clarity on the proper pronunciation of her name. But like so many others, that will never happen now. A flight of angels sing thee to thy rest.

Karin Dor in Los monstruos del terror (1970)