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Los monstruos del terror (1969)
Country of Origin: Spain/West Germany/Italy
Year of Production: 1969
Running Times: 85m
Length:
Format: 35mm/70mm (blow-up)/Totalvision
Colour Format: Eastmancolor
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Sound: mono
DIRECTION
Directors: Hugo Fregonese, Eberhard Meichsner, Tulio Demicheli
(some scenes)
CREW
PRODUCTION
Production Companies: Jaime Prades presents Producciones Jaime Prades
S.A. (Spain)/Eichberg Film GmbH (West Germany)/International Jaguar
Cinematografica (Italy) co-production
Produced by Jaime Prades
Associate Producer: Victor Tarruella Lacour
Production Managers: Ramon Plana, Jesus Narro
Supervisor: Luis M. Caceres
Co-ordinator: Jose Ma Ricart
SCRIPT
Screen Play: Jacinto Molina Alvarez
PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Godofredo Pacheco
Cameramen: Ricardo Andreu, Fernando Espiga
EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: Emilio Rodríguez
Assistant Editor: Angela Grau
Laboratories: Fotofilm
MUSIC
Music: Franco Salina
SOUND
English Version by: Peter Riethof
MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up: Francisco Ramón Ferrer
SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects: Antonio Molina
DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Set Decorator: Adolfo Cofiño
OTHER CREW
Administrator: Jose F. Labrado
Production Assistant: Jaime D'Ors
Consultant: La casa del medico
LOCATIONS
Locations: Barcelona, Cataluña, Spain; Casa de Campo, Madrid,
Madrid, Spain; Ermita de San Frutos hermitage, Sepúlveda, Segovia,
Castilla y León, Spain; Munich, Bavaria, Germany; San Martín
de Valdeiglesias, Madrid, Spain
CAST
Michael Rennie (Dr Odo Warnoff)
Karin Dor (Maleva Kerstein)
Patty Shepard (Lisa)
Helga Geissler
Ángel del Pozo (Kirian)
Craig Hill (Inspector Tobermann)
Paul Naschy (Waldemar
Daninsky)
Fajda Nicol
Manuel de Blas
Diana Sorel
Peter Damon
Ferdinando Murolo
Gene Reyes
Ella Gessler
Luciano Tacconi
PLOT SUMMARY
Aliens from a dying planet are planning to invade the Earth. They resurrect
two dead scientists back to life and use them to help reactivate some
of the Earth's most feared monsters. Their army of terrors includes
the werewolf Waldemar Daninsky, Frankenstein's monster the mummy Tao-Tet
and the vampire Count de Meirhoff.
AVAILABILITY
Spain
Theatrical Distributor: Octavio Morella Cardona
West Germany
Theatrical Distributor: Columbia
UK
Theatrical Release: Monarch Film Corp. Ltd.
USA
Theatrical Distributor: AIP
Video DistributorsLuminous Film and Video Wurks; Sinister Cinema; United
American
DVD Distributor: Sinister Cinema
CENSORSHIP HISTORY
West Germany
Rating: 16
TIMELINE
1970
March
6: West Germany - theatrical release
1971
August
28: Spain – theatrical release (in Seville)
November
22: Spain - theatrical release (in Barcelona)
1972
January
26: France - theatrical release
ALTERNATIVE TITLES
Assignment Terror - US title
Dracula jagt Frankenstein - West German title
Dracula Vs. Frankenstein
El hombre que vino de Ummo - working title
The Man Who Came from Ummo
Operation Terror
Operazione terrore - Italian title
LINKS
SEQUEL TO
Noches del hombre
lobo, Las (1968)
Marca del hombre-lobo,
La (1968)
SEQUEL
Furia del hombre
lobo, La (1972)
REFERENCES
PERIODICALS
Cinefantastique vol.5 no.1 (Spring 1976) p.30 (USA)
review (by Jeffrey Frentzen)
Monthly Film Bulletin vol.38 no.453 (October 1971)
p.197 (UK)
credits, synopsis, review
Kine Weekly no.3332 (21 August 1971) p.9 (UK)
review
Today's Cinema no.9933 (20 August 1971) p.5 (UK)
review
KEYWORDS
frankenstein's monster, mummies, sequels, vampires, werewolves
Last Updated:
1 December, 2009
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