The world's a mess...the economy is heading down the toilet..and it's Tax Day.
Time to take a break from all that with a totally mindless film, like Werewolf in a Girls' Dormitory.
It takes place at a girls' reformatory, and because it's an Italian film, none of the girls are ugly. Quite the opposite. And there is some hanky-panky going on between some of the girls and the staff, but none of it is blatant because they just didn't do that in the early Sixties. And because it was an Italian film that was buffed and edited and altered and dubbed for English-speaking audiences, it doesn't really have to make much sense and the special effects don't have to be all that special.
In brief, a new teacher has come to the school and, on his first day, a blackmailing student is viciously killed, Suspicion, of course, falls on the new guy. Then more girls are killed. And there's an honest-to-goodness werewolf -- but did he do the killing? We won't know until the very final moments.
This one stars 20-year-old Barbara Lass, who is as cute as a button. She was born Barbara Kwiakowska in Poland and changed her name to one that might be easier to pronounce in English. She went on to marry -- briefly -- Roman Polanski, divorcing him long before the Manson murders and Polanski's sexual abuse charges. The new teacher was played by Carl Schell, the brother of Maximilian Schell and Maria Schell. Also featured was Curt Lowens and Maurice Marsac as school officials and a host of interchangeable 25-year-olds playing teenage girls.
Actually more of a psychological drama than a horror flick, because I don't think anyone actually knew what they wanted to do with the film.
Directed by Paolo Heusch and written by Ernesto Gastaldi, the movie also features an absolutely terrible theme song in "The Ghoul in the School." The film's original title, by the way, was Lycanthropus.
With all this going for it, how can you go Wrong?
Enjoy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubre2z_rO_8
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