(AKA): Bei Vollmond Mord (Austria) / The Ghoul in School / Ghoul in a Girl's Dormitory (USA) / I Married a Werewolf / Monster Among the Girls (USA). Original title was "Lycanthropus." This is supposed to be a disease brought on by a full moon but for that in the know Lycanthrope is really just another name for werewolf.
Expecting a hairy James Belushi in Technicolor, I was surprised to find that this is a dubbed biting Italian film dredged up from the golden age of Italian horror films to be a pretender to today's cult classics.
The film is B&W and takes place in an Italian castle that is being used as a girls' reformatory. The girls picked for this film were chosen for their tasty looks and includes Barbara Lass who was Roman Polanski's first wife (1959-62). There are may other well and no so well known actors. The Tommy the Porter is played by Joseph Mercer known as the Peter Lorre of Italian horror films. Carl Schell is the brother of Maximilian Schell.
The title song "The Ghoul in School" was written by Marilyn Stewart, Frank Owens and sung by Adam Keefe. However most to the music is by Armando Trovajoli; Armando composed for over 200 films and videos, many of them were Italian horror films.
The story opens up with Dr. Julian Olcott (Carl Schell) and is greeted at the gate by the limping sneaky looking Tommy the Porter (Joseph Mercer) and the porter's German Sheppard that does not appear too friendly. A young girl swoons at the sight of the Doctor. From here we are introduced to a bevy of babes (each with some sinister past) and a staff of extremely strange people in their own way. Girls are being lured to the woods by cash. But shortly after the arrival of Dr. Olcott one girl is dispatched. This of course is attributed to tray wolves. So did the girl go astray or the wolf or the supplier of cash or any of the other mysterious characters? It is up to her girl friend Priscilla (Barbara Lass) that thinks her friend was murdered, and with the sometime help of Director Swift (Curt Lowens) that wants to protect the school's reputation, to find if there really is a perpetrator before someone else gets dispatched.
Oops, too late.
