1. Plot

2. Cast

3. Production

4. Release

5. Reception

6. References
    Footnotes  Sources 

7. External links

• Renato Rossini
• Dagmar Lassander
• Tino Carraro
• Elio Zamuto}}

Plot

A victim of childhood rape grows up into a woman who has delusions that she is a werewolf, just like one of her ancestors was. She kills men until she falls in love with a man. She is then raped again and goes on a second killing spree against her rapists.

Cast

• Annik Borel as Daniella Neseri
• Howard Ross as Luca Mondini
• Dagmar Lassander as Elena Neseri
• Tino Carraro as Count Neseri
• Andrea Scotti as Arrighi
• Frederick Stafford as Inspector Modica
• Felicita Fanny as Doctor in car
• Salvatore Billa as Rapist
• Pietro Torrisi as Rapist

Production

Filming for Werewolf Woman began in September 1975 in Rome.{{sfn|Curti|2017|p=163}}{{sfn|Curti|2017|p=164}} Initially, the film was known as La licantropa.{{sfn|Curti|2017|p=164}} Director Di Silvestro emphasized in interview that he was trying to make a "serious" film about lycanthropy.{{sfn|Curti|2017|p=164}} Di Silvestro also claimed the film to be the first focused on a werewolf woman, which is untrue as the theme had been explored as early as The Werewolf in 1913.{{sfn|Curti|2017|p=164}}

Annik Borel was cast as the werewolf, Daniella Neseri.{{sfn|Curti|2017|p=166}} Di Silvestro recalled seeing hundred of photos from international agents and when seeing Borel he realized "something was exploding within her, in her psychic and cultural background"{{sfn|Curti|2017|p=166}} Di Silvestro stated he gave her several screen tests which he described as "almost devastating" before casting her.{{sfn|Curti|2017|p=166}}

Release

Werewolf Woman was distributed theatrically in Italy by Agorà on 18 March 1976.{{sfn|Curti|2017|p=163}} The film grossed a total of 187,164,094 Italian lire domestically.{{sfn|Curti|2017|p=163}}

The film was distributed abroad in the United States, Canada and Australia.{{sfn|Curti|2017|p=166}} The director believed his films had an "international feel about them–they were understandable even without dialogue or music, just by watching the images"{{sfn|Curti|2017|p=166}}

The film was released in the United States in June 1977 where it was distributed by Dimension Pictures.{{sfn|Curti|2017|p=163}} It has been released in the United States as Daughter of a Werewolf, Naked Werewolf Woman, She-Wolf and Terror of the She Wolf.{{sfn|Curti|2017|p=163}} It was released in Australia as Legend of the Wolf Woman.{{sfn|Curti|2017|p=163}}

Reception

Italian film historian and critic Roberto Curti described the films reception in Italy as being "predictably ridiculed by critics".{{sfn|Curti|2017|p=166}}

In a retrospective review, Curti described the film as an "over-the-top sexploitation potbiler" and that the film was "not technically poor as those by some of his peers" and Di Silvestro's work as naive and with heavy-handed symbolism with an too many close-ups, zooms and camera angles resulting in the film looking "unintentionally ridiculous"{{sfn|Curti|2017|p=164}}{{sfn|Curti|2017|p=165}}

References

Footnotes

Sources

• {{cite book

External links

• {{IMDb title|id=0074829}}

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