Maleva Kerstein (Assignment Terror)

Maleva Kerstein (Karin Dor) is an evil scientist in the 1970 Spanish-German horror sci-fi film "Assignment Terror". It was originally known as "Los Monstruos del Terror", which translates to "The Monsters of Terror", and was also known as "Dracula vs. Frankenstein".
Dr. Odo Warnoff (Michael Rennie) is an alien scientists from the dying planet of Ummo. He takes over a deserted abbey to try out his experiments. He revives a couple of female scientists including Maleva Kerstein and Ilsa (Patty Shepard), and surgeon (Angel de Pozo) to help him with these experiments. Maleva was a doctor of biochemistry who was killed in an automobile accident.
They plan to conquer earth by using man's superstitions about the myths of monsters to accomplish this. If they can panic the earth's population, they can use it to conquer it easier.
They revive Waldemar Daninsky the Werewolf (Paul Naschy), a male vampire named Count Janos de Mialhoff (Manuel de Blas), a mummy (Gene Reyes), and a Frankenstein like creature. Dr. Warnoff and Maleva create all of these monsters to do their will.
In one scene, Maleva was sleeping in her bed when Count Janos covered her mouth cutting off her air supply. She struggled for awhile until she finally appeared to be dead. However, Dr. Kerian was able to shake her awake.
Later when Maleva and Dr. Kerian made love, the Monster came in and killed Kerian in their bed. Maleva was punished for not obeying Dr. Warnoff's orders and allowing human emotion to rule her. As a result Dr. Warnoff subjected her to electric shock to make sure she would not do it again.
The werewolf ends up saving the world by destroying the other three monsters in hand-to-hand combat and ultimately blows up the aliens' underground base.
Prior to the explosion, Dr. Warnoff and Maleva were sealed in the control center. They were in contact with their alien commanders, who told Warnoff that he had failed, and would have to pay the price for it. Warnoff asked them to spare Maleva. However, they reminded him that Dr. Kerstein's body has ceased to exist on earth. As the camera spanned to Maleva, she had a peaceful grin on her face, and then she slowly disappeared.
==Trivia==
*Karin Dor appeared as the henchwoman Helga Brandt in the 1967 James Bond film, "You Only Live Twice".
*Karin Dor appeared as Juanita de Cordoba in the 1969 Alfred Hitchcock film "Topaz".
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