La Maldicion de la Bestia (The Curse of the Beast) is a 1975 Spanish horror film that is the eighth in a long series about the werewolf Count Waldemar Daninsky, played by Paul Naschy. The film has also been known as The Werewolf and the Yeti, Night of the Howling Beast and Hall of the Mountain King. This film ignored the events from the earlier Hombre Lobo films and provided an all-new origin for Waldemar's lycanthropy, having the curse transmitted to Waldemar by the bites of two female werewolves. A yeti is woven into the storyline (as in The Fury of the Wolfman), but in this film the Yeti is not the direct cause of Waldemar's lycanthropy. Fernando Florido and Adolfo Ponte handled the special effects throughout the film.

Plot

Waldemar Daninsky goes to Tibet to guide an expedition led by Professor Lacombe to look for proof that the yeti exists. Waldemar gets separated from the main party and captured by two cannibalistic werewolf women in an ice cave, who transform him into a werewolf by biting him. Waldemar's companions are kidnapped by a band of Tibetan pirates who torture their victims gruesomely. In the film's grand climax, Waldemar (in werewolf form) gets to fight not only Sekkar Khan, the bandits' leader but also a genuine Yeti in bloody hand-to-fang combat. Waldemar kills the Yeti by biting his throat out, but in the process, he is gravely wounded. The professor's daughter Sylvia, who is in love with Waldemar, manages to cure him of his lycanthropy by rubbing a small Tibetan flower mixed with her blood on him. In the end, Waldemar changes into a man and goes off into the sunset with Sylvia, making this the only Waldemar Daninsky film with a happy ending.