--- title: 'El Retorno de Walpurgis (1973)' type: 'film' director: 'Carlos Aured' released: '1973-09-26' runtime_minutes: 81 genres: - 'Horror' countries: - 'Mexico' - 'Spain' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/el-retorno-de-walpurgis-1973' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070603/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # El Retorno de Walpurgis (1973) 1973 · 81 min · Horror · Mexico, Spain Original title: El retorno de Walpurgis ## Synopsis El Retorno de Walpurgis is a 1973 Mexican-Spanish co-production horror film that is the seventh in a twelve-film series about the werewolf Count Waldemar Daninsky, played by Paul Naschy. This film ignored the events in all of the earlier Wolf Man films and began an entirely new origin for el Hombre Lobo, which is strange because the film's Spanish title The Return of Walpurgis seems to tie it in with Naschy's earlier 1970 film Walpurgis Night. The Wolf Man makeup was done by Fernando Florido. The film was shot in June 1973, and by September, it was already in theaters in Spain, as El Retorno de Walpurgis. It wasn't released theatrically in the U.S. however until 1976, as Curse of the Devil. ## Credits - **Screenplay:** [Paul Naschy](https://cinepixo.com/people/paul-naschy) - **Director:** [Carlos Aured](https://cinepixo.com/people/carlos-aured) - **Original Music Composer:** [Antón García Abril](https://cinepixo.com/people/anton-garcia-abril) - **Producer:** [Luis Méndez](https://cinepixo.com/people/luis-mendez) - **Director of Photography:** [Francisco Sánchez](https://cinepixo.com/people/francisco-sanchez) - **Editor:** [Maria Luisa Soriano](https://cinepixo.com/people/maria-luisa-soriano) ## Cast - [Eduardo Calvo](https://cinepixo.com/people/eduardo-calvo) - [Fernando Sánchez Polack](https://cinepixo.com/people/fernando-sanchez-polack) - [Paul Naschy](https://cinepixo.com/people/paul-naschy) - [Mariano Vidal Molina](https://cinepixo.com/people/mariano-vidal-molina) - [María Silva](https://cinepixo.com/people/maria-silva) - [José Manuel Martín](https://cinepixo.com/people/jose-manuel-martin) - [José Yepes](https://cinepixo.com/people/jose-yepes) - [Maritza Olivares](https://cinepixo.com/people/maritza-olivares) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/el-retorno-de-walpurgis-1973 Film facts: Wikidata (Q3202905); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.