The Curse of the Werewolf is a 1961 British horror film directed by Terence Fisher and starring Clifford Evans, Oliver Reed and Yvonne Romain.

Lonely after having driven away his wife with his violent temper, the aging marqués makes advances on the jailer's daughter while she is cleaning his room.

However, when Alfredo presses him, he recounts how on his first hunting trip he started licking a dead squirrel out of compassion and found he had a taste for blood.

He begs to be released and entrusted to the care of a monastery before he changes again, but the mayor does not believe him after Cristina fails to corroborate his story, not having been told he is a werewolf.

Giving up hope, Leon urges his father to use the silver bullet which the watchman made from a crucifix blessed by an archbishop in response to his childhood killings.

Though torn with grief, Alfredo loads the silver bullet, shoots Leon dead, and tearfully covers his body with a cloak.

While the original story took place in Paris, the location of the film was moved to Madrid to avoid building new Parisian sets.

Howard Thompson of The New York Times wrote that some of the colour photography was "beautiful," adding that "for a werewolf yarn this Hammer Production has a Gothic type of narrative that is not uninteresting, if broadly acted.

"[5] Harrison's Reports graded the film as "Good," finding the production values "a big asset" although the review felt there was "not enough action.

Although not a particularly frightening or novel story treatment of the perennial shock film topic (werewolves ranking second only to vampires in cinema), it is a first-class effort in other respects.

Surely the time has come when a film like this should be turned over to the alienists for comment; as entertainment its stolid acting, writing, presentation and direction could hardly be more preclusive.

The film was adapted into a 15-page comic strip for the January 1978 issue of the magazine The House of Hammer (volume 1, # 10, published by General Book Distribution).