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The Man Who Turned to Stone (1957)

 -  Horror | Sci-Fi  -  March 1957 (USA)
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Jory and his followers stay immortal by siphoning off the life forces of others. If they don't get renewed, they petrify.

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Dr. Murdock
William Hudson ...
Dr. Jess Rogers
Charlotte Austin ...
Carol Adams
Jean Willes ...
Tracy
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Mrs. Ford
Paul Cavanagh ...
Cooper
George Lynn ...
Dr. Freneau
Victor Varconi ...
Dr. Myer
Friedrich von Ledebur ...
Eric (as Frederick Ledebur)
Tina Carver ...
Big Marge Collins
Barbara Wilson ...
Anna Sherman
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A group of 18th-century scientists, led by Dr. Murdock, have remained young after all these centuries by using electricity to suck the life out of young women. If one of the scientists misses a treatment, his skin hardens to the toughness of stone. A female prisoner discovers why so many of her fellow inmates are disappearing, and attempts to stop them with the aid of a prison psychiatrist. Written by Marty McKee <mmckee@wkio.com>

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Human or inhuman? No woman is safe...! See more »

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Horror | Sci-Fi

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March 1957 (USA)  »

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Het tuchthuis van de angst  »

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Columbia Pictures released this film on a double bill with Zombies of Mora Tau with the tag line: "Warning - This is the Most Shocking Horror Bill Ever Shown!" See more »

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The Man Who Turned to Stone (1957) **1/2
1 February 2013 | by (U.S.A.) – See all my reviews

**1/2 out of ****

Even though I don't care much for the term, this 1950s B horror is a favorite "guilty pleasure" of mine. It's has an enjoyably weird premise, even if it's loaded with plot holes and requires a heaping suspension of disbelief. A detention center for women is experiencing an unusually high rate of random heart attack deaths by healthy young inmates. It turns out that the newest staff of eccentric middle-agers now running the prison are actually centuries-old people who kidnap the girls, and then drain their life forces in order to keep themselves from aging further. The problem is, if they miss their latest energy boosts, they start to turn into stone. A kindly social worker (Charlotte Austin, later in FRANKENSTEIN 1970) and psychiatrist William Hudson (the bad hubby of ATTACK OF THE FIFTY FT. WOMAN) investigate the strange occurrences. Victor Jory is suitably creepy as the head villain. This has some disturbing moments considering its era, and is just offbeat enough to remain interesting, if not a good movie.


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