Burly Spanish character actor Paul Naschy (1934-2009) was so determined to become a horror star that he scripted his first vehicle, La Marca Del Hombre Lobo (1968). Released globally as Hell’s Creatures or Frankenstein’s Bloody Terror, the film set off a mini-boom for gothic horror in Spain, not a country which traditionally made monster movies. Naschy returned to the role of Polish werewolf Waldemar Daninsky in many wildly inventive, doggily endearing films, including Dr. Jekyll And The Werewolf, The Werewolf And The Yeti (once deemed a ‘video nasty’), The Beast And The Magic Sword (set in samuraiera Japan) and Buenas Noches, Señor Monstruo (a kids’ musical). Naschy also played Dracula, a mummy and an exorcist, and eventually directed as well as wrote his films. Among his choice titles: Horror Rises From The Tomb, House Of Psychotic Women and A Dragonfly For Each Corpse.