As always, I'll watch anything even peripherally related to werewolves. And like so many others, this movie has very little to do with them.

Instead, it's a lurid Italian shlockfest that undresses its lithe nubile leading lady as much as possible and (if you watched the version I did), contains pretty shoddy lip synching from the original production.

Daniela (the barely-dressed Annik Borel) is being hunted by villagers in what looks like the Middle Ages through a forest at night. She started out undressing and doing some ceremonial dance around a campfire, transforming into a werewolf and rushing off, stalking and taunting the people chasing her and picking them off one by one.

Suddenly she wakes up from what turns out to be a nightmare she's having. Daniela is really a sexually repressed young woman living in luxury in the countryside with her doting father who's trying to help her heal after some trauma that's manifested itself as she's grown up.

It doesn't help that an ancestor from centuries before who was burned at the stake for being a werewolf looks exactly like her, as she knows from an etching of the woman and which is manifesting in the nightmares.

During conversations with a doctor that looks like a cross between the producer's brother in law and a porn director, we find out that Daniela can't maintain a healthy sexual relationship after a brutal rape as a girl, and that any hint of sexual allure brings out a dangerous reaction. She believes she's a werewolf, but in reality her psychosis comes to the surface and she murders her lover during sex.

After chucking her latest victim into a quarry Daniela suffers a complete break from reality and is institutionalised, everyone believing her case is hopeless. But she tricks her way into escaping (courtesy of a salacious lesbian romp) and promptly picks up another potential partner/victim.

Eventually, while still on the run, Daniela comes across a man who's actually kind and caring towards her, and when the pair fall in love it seems her trauma might finally be at rest. It can't last though – in a film obsessed with nudity and rape, Daniela and her new beau fall victim to an act that will tip her totally over the edge.

Aesthetically it comes very much from the school of Hammer horror and the many European regional film movements that copied it back in the 60s and 70s, which means slightly shoddy production values, lots of candlelight and as much nudity as they could probably get away with for the rating and intended distribution plan.

It's not good, the understanding of female sexuality and sexual trauma is primary school-level, and it's about the fantasy figure of a bloodthirsty nympho killer rather than werewolves.