Werewolf in a Girl's Dormitory

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Summary: The Ghoul in School rules! Low-budget, European style.
Review: For those of us who can't get enough of low-brow horror flicks. The girl's dorm is actually a reform-school for girls, perched on a high Alpine-type mountain. A werewolf stalks the night. The movie is a horror-mystery combination that conceals the identity of the monster until later in the film. The B&W photography is appropriately moody. The emphasis on female pulchritude recalls the Hammer horror cycle of the 1950s and 1960s, without Hammer's rich color photography. (Where's Christopher Lee when you need him?) The werewolf make-up is unfrightening enough for the local PTA "Haunted Forest" at Halloween. This little chiller-thriller can be taken as a harmless time-waster, or as unintentional humor. Good Halloween party tape!

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Summary: What a time to be alive...
Review: This really isn't that great a movie, but it's so nice to be living at a time when I can just walk into a Musicland or some such cultural eyesore, and buy a copy of Werewolf in a Girls' Dormitory (or Lycanthropus, as it was originally known). Video has grown immeasurably in the last few years, from a time when nearly all Dario Argento titles were out of print to a time when this film, and others like it, are widely available. The film itself is typical German exploitation. Atmospheric, enjoyable, but nowhere near as good as the Dr. Mabuse series or the Edgar Wallace films (Mad Executioners, Strange Countess), and not even comparable to a forgotten gem like The Head. A fun film for an evening of forgotten eurotrash horror, but no classic. Now where are the Mabuse and Wallace movies? When they are commerically available, then it can truly be said that we live in a golden age. Enjoy.