NIGHT OF THE HOWLING BEAST

Waldemar Daninsky goes to Tibet as a guide for 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 becomes a man and goes off into the sunset with Sylvia, making this the only Waldemar Daninsky film to have a happy ending.

Waldemar, as a werewolf, defeats the yeti but is gravely wounded. Sylvia cures his lycanthropy, and the two leave together, marking a rare happy ending for Waldemar Daninsky.

The ending offers a surprising twist for the Daninsky saga: instead of doom, love and Tibetan folk medicine provide salvation. The conclusion stands out within the werewolf canon, allowing the monster a shot at redemption and happiness, and subverting expectations for a typically tragic character.