Los Monstruos del Terror



Los Monstruos del Terror (translation: The Monsters of Terror), also known as Dracula vs. Frankenstein (U.K. title), Reincarnator (French title) and Assignment: Terror (U.S. title), is a 1970 Spanish-German-Italian horror film directed by Tulio Demicheli, Hugo Fregonese and Eberhard Meichsner (Meichsner was only credited in the British promotional material and most likely was not involved at all). It stars Paul Naschy, Michael Rennie, Karin Dor and Craig Hill. It is the third in a series of films featuring the werewolf Count Waldemar Daninsky, who was always played by Naschy.

Los Monstruos del Terror was originally going to be called El Hombre que Vino de Ummo (translation: The Man Who Came From Ummo), referring to Michael Rennie's alien character. It was followed by the 1970 film The Fury of the Wolfman. The film was released directly to television in the U.S. as Assignment Terror.

Plot
Aliens, running a traveling circus as a cover, revive a vampire, a werewolf, a mummy and Frankenstein's monster with a plan to use them to take over the world. They want to discover the reason that these monsters are so frightening to Earthlings. They then plan to use their findings and resurrect the monsters to destroy the people of Earth. For reference, the aliens use a book entitled "Anthology of the Monsters" by Professor Ulrich von Farancksalan, who was also the creator of the analog to Frankenstein's monster in this film.

The werewolf they revive (Count Waldemar Daninsky) saves the world by destroying the other three monsters in hand-to-hand combat and ultimately blowing up the aliens' underground base, although he is shot to death in the process by a woman who loves him enough to end his torment. The werewolf has no specific origin in this film; it is assumed that the events in this film are continued from the ending of La Marca del Hombre Lobo (The Mark of the Wolfman, 1968), in which Daninsky was transformed into a werewolf through the bite of a werewolf named Imre Wolfstein (strangely, the werewolf was killed in the same exact manner in that first film, but in this film, the aliens surgically remove the silver bullets to revive him).