Seddok, l'erede di Satana (1960)

Director:

Anton Giulio Majano

Writers:

Alberto Bevilacqua (writer)
Gino De Santis (writer)

Release Date:

19 August 1960 (Italy)

Genre:

Horror | Sci-Fi

Tagline:

You'll gasp with Horror . . . a spine-tingling motion picture only the atom age could produce!

Plot:

A stripper is horribly disfigured in a car accident. A brilliant scientist develops a treatment that restores her beauty and falls in love with her...

Plot Keywords:

Serial Killer | Transformation | Public Domain | Disfigurement

Cast

Alberto Lupo	...	Prof. Alberto Levin
Susanne Loret	...	Jeanette Moreneau
Sergio Fantoni	...	Pierre Mornet
Franca Parisi	...	Monique Riviere
Andrea Scotti
Rina Franchetti
Roberto Bertea	...	Sacha
Ivo Garrani
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Glamor Mora
Gianna Piaz		(as Giovanna Piaz)

Also Known As:

Atom Age Vampire (USA) (dubbed version)

Runtime:

105 min | USA:87 min | USA:72 min (video version) | USA:69 min (DVD version)

Country:

Italy

Language:

Italian

Color:

Black and White

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

USA:Unrated

Company:

Leone Film

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Adam, Vampire. (2007)

Where Were the Vampires?

I've been attempting to watch all 50 films in my 50 Classic Horror Films collection (a box set putting my total horror collection in a very high range). But I'm already stuck on number 2, "Atom Age Vampire" because of what I have heard about horrible editing and a slew of scenes that were chopped to please Americans censors (the film is complete in Italy). But if I want to get going through these, I must watch them all, so here I go again on my own... see you in 2 hours.

Okay, the film is not as bad as some make it out to be. Yes, the editing is a little sloppy. And yes, some parts are chopped out (though I would never know if I hadn't read about it). But the acting and plot and everything else are just fine. It's a story of a stripper who gets disfigured in a car accident (not unlike the car accident in "Carnival of Souls") and is taken in by a scientist who has invented "Derma 28" which can cure all skin blemishes and maybe even cancer. As you can expect fro ma horror film, something goes wrong and hilarity ensues. There is one big twist in the middle I never saw coming and I loved it.

This film is worth watching if you're a horror buff, but otherwise has little to offer. It works great as a smoking game, not unlike "In the Mouth of Madness" due to the 20 times that a character talks about their need to smoke. Strangely, i none scene a man asks to go outside to smoke when he's sitting next to a man inside smoking. But maybe that's the polite thing to do. Oh, and there's not a single vampire in this movie.

As I said, recommended for horror fans. Not so much for everyone else.