Lycanthropus is a 1962

1962 in film

The year 1962 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*May - The Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards are officially founded by the Taiwanese government....

 horror film

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...

 directed by Paolo Heusch

Paolo Heusch

Paolo Heusch was an Italian film director and screenwriter. He directed ten films between 1958 and 1970...

. MGM released it as a double feature

Double feature

The double feature, also known as a double bill, was a motion picture industry phenomenon in which theatre managers would exhibit two films for the price of one, supplanting an earlier format in which one feature film and various short subject reels would be shown.The double feature, also known as...

 with Corridors of Blood

Corridors of Blood

Corridors of Blood is a 1958 horror film directed by Robert Day. The original music score was composed by Buxton Orr. The film was marketed with the tagline "Tops in terror!" in the US where MGM released it as a double feature with Werewolf in a Girls' Dormitory.-Plot:An 1840s British surgeon, Dr...

in the United States.

Plot summary

Wolves

Gray Wolf

The gray wolf , also known as the wolf, is the largest extant wild member of the Canidae family...

 have been seen roaming around a girls' reformatory

Reformatory

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, and when the girls begin to get murdered, suspicion focuses on both the wolves and on a newly-hired science teacher who might be a 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...

. It is noteable for being the oldest film ever shown on the movie mocking show The Cinema Snob.

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The film was featured on the fourth episode of MSTing

MSTing

MSTing or MiSTing is a method of mocking a show in the style of the television series Mystery Science Theater 3000 and, in particular, is a form of fan fiction in which writers mock other works by inserting humorous comments, called "riffs", into the flow of dialogue and events.- Style :In...

 show Incognito Cinema Warriors XP. The characters greatly ridiculed the film's sluggish pace, bad effects, odd poster art, and actor Curt Lowen's over-pronunciation of the word letter, spoken as "lettah".

Cast

• Barbara Lass as Priscilla
• Carl Schell as Julian Olcott
• Curt Lowens
  Curt Lowens
  Curt Lowens is a German actor of the stage and films, and a survivor and resistant of the Holocaust.-Life and career:...
  
   as Director Swift
• Maureen O'Connor as Leonore MacDonald
• Maurice Marsac as Sir Alfred Whiteman
• Luciano Pigozzi
  Luciano Pigozzi
  Luciano Pigozzi is an Italian film actor. He appeared in 105 films between 1954 and 1989. He was often credited under the pseudonym Alan Collins and occasionally Alan Collin....
  
  as Walter the Caretaker
• Joseph Mercier as Tommy the Porter
• Mary McNeeran as Mary Smith
• Annie Steinert as Sheena Whiteman
• Grace Neame as Sandy