People are mysteriously disappearing near a remote Cornish village, where a scientist is experimenting with reviving the dead.
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Title: Doctor Blood's Coffin (1961)
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Kieron Moore | ... | |
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Nurse Linda Parker
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Dr. Robert Blood, Peter's Father
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Sgt. Cook
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Gerald Lawson | ... |
Mr. G. F. Morton
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Tregaye
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Paul Hardtmuth | ... |
Prof. Luckman
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Steve Parker, Linda's Husband
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George Beale the Tunnel Expert
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People are mysteriously disappearing near a remote Cornish village, where a scientist is experimenting with reviving the dead.
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father son relationship | grave robber | god complex | reanimation | playing god |Taglines:
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Country:
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EnglishRelease Date:
January 1961 (UK) See more »Also Known As:
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Set in a "Cornish village" (high marks for any film of this vintage set in "a cornish village" - those cornish villages went through the mill in the middle years of horror), Dr. Blood's Coffin checks in as a Frankenstein -ish offering. Got your mad scientist tinkering with humans, more lurid and atmospheric lab scenes than the graphic and in your face stuff current movie viewers are used to.
Creepy scenes. In the old days, I loved movies that gave me one creepy scene that made closing my eyes to go to sleep a challenge.
Old horse, corny now but from that impossible to resist title to the whopper denouement, one of the knighted efforts to keep horror alive when 99% of cinema thought horror undignified and unworthy. If you like Freddy, Scream and Jason, you owe a nod of thanks (though not necessarily a viewing) to films like Dr. Blood. If you're a fan of creepier things like "The Ring" and remakes of "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" or "Dawn of the Dead", you also owe a nod of thanks to films like this one. You guys, might even find the "loyalty to the cause" in a viewing of this film.