El secreto del Dr. Orloff (1964)

User Rating:

5.1/10   

Director:

Jesus Franco

Writers:

Jesus Franco (screenplay)
Jesus Franco (story)

Release Date:

1964 (Spain)

Genre:

Horror

Plot:

A mad scientist creates a hideous monster to carry out his murderous plans. |

Plot Keywords:

Monster | Mad Scientist | Stripper | Female Nudity | Nudity

Cast

Hugo Blanco	...	Andros (as Hugh White)
Agnès Spaak	...	Melissa
Perla Cristal	...	Rosa
Marcelo Arroita-Jáuregui	...	Dr. Conrad Jekyll
Pepe Rubio	...	Juan Manuel (as José Rubio)
Pastor Serrador	...	Inspector Klein
Marta Reves
Daniel Blumer
Luisa Sala	...	Ingrid Fisherman
Manuel Guitián	...	Ciceron
Mer Casas
Rafael Hernández
José Truchado
Juan Antonio Soler
Javier de Rivera		(as Javier Rivera)

Also Known As:

Brides of Dr. Jekyll
Die Geliebten des Dr. Jekyll (Austria)
Dr. Jekyll's Mistresses (UK)
Dr. Orloff's Monster
El secreto del doctor Orloff
Les maîtresses du Docteur Jekyll (France)
Les maîtresses du Dr. Jekyll
The Mistresses of Dr. Jekyll (USA)
The Secret of Dr. Orloff (USA)

Runtime:

90 min | Spain:99 min

Country:

Spain | Austria | France

Language:

Spanish

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Netherlands:12 (DVD rating) | Finland:K-16

Company:

Eurocineac

Movie Connections:

Featured in "Son of Svengoolie: Dr. Orloff's Monster (1964) (#1.100)" (1981)

Dr. Orloff's Monster

Dr. Orloff's Monster (1964)

** (out of 4)

Jess Franco's sequel to The Awful Dr. Orloff is more of a remake than anything else. I watched the French version under the title The Mistress of Dr. Jekyll and this version features more nudity than the versions released in Spain and America. In the film. Dr. Fisherman (Marcelo Arroita Jauregui) kills his brother (Hugo Blanco) when he learns that he is having an affair with his wife. The doctor eventually brings his brother back as a zombie like creature to kill various women for him. I've never really been a fan of Franco's earlier period of Gothic horror films but you can certainly see that he has talent with these films. While I prefer his 70s work he does give this film a lot of style, which is something missing from those later films. The performance Blanco is pretty good but Jauregui comes off very boring and certainly can't fill the shoes of Howard Vernon from the previous film. The film is beautiful to look at and features a very nice score from Daniel White but in the end the film left me looking at my watch too much. The movie's pace is quite slow and all the stuff dealing with the police comes off boring. You can spot Franco during one scene. The DVD features some of the alternate scenes from the American and Spanish version of the film. I think I prefer the French scenes with the nudity as it makes the film stand out from countless other Gothic films of this period.