Excellent representative of horror 50 - x Basil Rathbone, Lon Cheney Jr., John Carradine, Bela Lugosi, Akim Tamiroff. How could you find this movie with such legends of cinema pass by it? Director Reginald Le Borg made a cool picture, in my opinion it is a worthy representative of the horror of the fifties.
The actor’s ensemble, which involved the director, amazes with its stardom, as soon as he managed to assemble such a composition in one film. This film is the last feature film in the career of Bela Lugosi, the role here is secondary and small, but very remarkable. A great actor with a great track record.
The director unfolds before us the dark story of a mad doctor who goes through everything just to make his medical discovery. Operating on living people, he maims them and turns them into terrible creatures who languish in terrible torture in the basement of his large and dark mansion.
Visually, this black – white picture is impressive, it looks very stylish, being Gothic and beautiful. All the action in the picture, except the beginning, will take place in one big, mysterious castle, where our doctor will conduct his terrible, inhuman experiments on people, baring their brains and throwing his tools into it. In general, the feast for aesthetic amateurs and black-white horror and gothic movie fans is provided to the full.
People on whom experiments have been carried out turn into terrible creatures that cause fear by their very appearance, they are ready to kill and destroy only on command, they are no longer people, their minds are clouded as a result of inhuman experiments. They turned out to be really scary, frightening and repulsive. Makeup artists did their best. In one of these roles is not a person here and appears John Carredin, the role here he has episodic, but he performed it simply gorgeous.
The acting game does not cause any complaints. All roles are verified and filigree. And on another and could not be, given the star composition of the picture. The script and its implementation were excellent. The director did a cool job and brought to the screen a terrible story in its true splendor.
In my opinion, this picture is an excellent example of such a distant about the beautiful horror of the fifties of the last century. All fans of classic horror I recommend to get acquainted with this well-made picture.
7 out of 10
P. S:
Lon Cheney Jr. is a bike. Another gorgeous and crazy image.