The Beast and the Magic Sword USED John Wayne the ghost of the beheaded

the ghost of the beheaded leader of a rebellion against the Shogunate teams with a magical female spirit to raise an army of the undead

PLUS: An essay by film scholar Emma Wilson

Gillian Anderson

Film historian Tony Rayns on Ju Dou (2021)

Behind the Scenes Featurettes

The Beast and the Magic Sword USED John Wayne the ghost of the beheadedTHE BEAST AND THE MAGIC SWORD is the last great film from Spanish horror legend Paul Naschy. Although he would go on making and planning films until his death in 2009, he never again attempted the epic sweep and grandeur of this 10th entry into the saga of Waldemar Daninsky, a man afflicted by the curse of lycanthropy. In this film we get for the first time an origin story of how the Daninsky curse began back in the 10th century. We then move forward