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00:00 Paul Nasci was a Spanish actor, writer, director, producer who made well over a
00:06 hundred feature films in Spain and specialized in fantasy and horror.
00:12 Paul was outdoes everybody, outdoes Christopher Lee, outdoes Boris Karloff
00:17 in playing all of these characters, everybody from Jack the Ripper to the
00:21 Hunchback to, I mean, Paul played all of them.
00:24 Paul's films are very attractive because of him.
00:30 Paul was a Spanish icon, you know, he was different again.
00:35 I think he was the person who most promoted the fantasy genre in this country.
00:38 Almost a priest of this kind of cinema.
00:41 A believer.
00:42 I think a person who believed in horror cinema. He told me so himself.
00:46 And he didn't care about the environment, I mean, he was going to Pignon, so I think he was
00:52 a crazy man, a brave man, both things.
00:55 Paul Nasci was a wonderful person.
00:58 Paul Nasci was a very serious actor and also a movie fan.
01:02 Paul Nasci, what I can remember most about him is his enormous affection for cinema.
01:08 He was always willing to talk about cinema, to talk about everything.
01:11 A myth, the werewolf by experience, and for me, a teacher.
01:17 Paul Nasci was someone who lived fantasy cinema and horror cinema as a vital matter,
01:26 as a matter of life.
01:27 I mean, Paul Nasci is the man of fantasy and horror cinema.
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02:34 Count Dracula, Frankenstein's monster, Fu Manchu, the mummy, the hunchback, Mr. Hyde,
02:45 and of course, a wolfman known as Waldemar Daninsky.
02:50 Working under his pseudonym, Paul Nasci, Jacinto Molina gave life to all these characters,
02:55 and in the process, terrified, entertained, and delighted generations of movie audiences around the world.
03:02 But behind the films and the many fascinating characters he incarnated
03:06 was a man whose own life story could have been a movie.
03:09 I invite you now to meet that man, the man behind the werewolf's mask.
03:14 It's the story of a true horror film legend, the story of Paul Nasci,
03:19 El Hombre Lobo, the Spanish Lon Chaney.
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