El Retorno de Walpurgis, also known as The Return of Walpurgis, Curse of the Devil and The Black Harvest of Countess Dracula, is a 1973 Spanish horror

Horror film

Horror films seek to elicit a negative emotional reaction from viewers by playing on the audience's most primal fears. They often feature scenes that startle the viewer through the means of macabre and the supernatural, thus frequently overlapping with the fantasy and science fiction genres...

 film that is the seventh in a series about the werewolf

Werewolf

A werewolf, also known as a lycanthrope , is a mythological or folkloric human with the ability to shapeshift into a wolf or an anthropomorphic wolf-like creature, either purposely or after being placed under a curse...

 Count Waldemar Daninsky, played by Paul Naschy

Paul Naschy

Paul Naschy was a Spanish movie actor, screenwriter, and director working primarily in horror films. His portrayals of numerous classic horror figures—the wolfman, the hunchback, Count Dracula, the mummy—have earned him recognition as the Spanish Lon Chaney...

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Synopsis

When Waldemar Daninsky kills a wolf, it transforms into a man upon death, and he later finds himself cursed with lycanthropy by vengeful witches who are angry about Daninsky's ancestor killing their ancestors, including Elizabeth Bathory

Elizabeth Báthory

Countess Elizabeth Báthory de Ecsed was a countess from the renowned Báthory family of Hungarian nobility. Although in modern times she has been labelled the most prolific serial killer in history, the number of murders has been debated...

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Release

The film was released theatrically in its native Spain in 1974.

The film was released theatrically in the United States

United States

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 by the Goldstone Film Enterprises in 1976.

The film was released on DVD

DVD

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 by Anchor Bay Entertainment

Anchor Bay Entertainment

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 in 2002. It was subsequently re-released in a special edition

Special edition

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in 2008 by Deimos Entertainment, a subdivision of BCI Eclipse.

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