Film starts with Naschy and his criminal gang trying to open a jewelry safe, they shut the electricity off thinking the alarm is shut down, Karl playing the part of dumbarse grabs a fake pearl neckless triggering the alarm. They take off, cop car chase, Naschy is shot in the head. Henry, the #2, sends Karl to get their go to doctor, Doc Ritter, a drunkard. Doc proposes they take Naschy to a professor friend who may be able to save his life.
The professor's hands have been mangled, but his hot wife can do the surgery. The gang kidnaps the professor's daughter to blackmailing them into saving Naschy. They conclude that Naschy will need a partial brain replacement, and Doc choses Naschy's nemesis "The Sadist". Karl and Paul, the other gang member, are sent to kill The Sadist and bring back his head. We then see The Sadist, an unsavory fellow, in his club, with a wild dance number, a poker game where he falsely accuses the other players of cheating and robs and then threatens to kill them. Karl and Paul use Naschy's girlfriend, Ingrid, who happened to be with The Sadist before, to lure and seduce The Sadist, and Paul kills him. Now these knuckleheads try to cut The Sadist's head off but they lose the knife. Their next brilliant idea is to place the body on railroad tracks and it works, as soon as the train passes the head rolls down the hill into their hands.
The professor and his wife perform the operation on Naschy and it's a success. The Doc goes home. Henry brings back the professor's daughter. Henry then sends the Sadist's head to Barbara, The Sadist's girlfriend and the real brains behind their gang. Barbara and gang go to see the Doc and beat the crap out of him, then they get Ingrid. The Doc spills the beans, and then he is dumped off at the professor's house, I guess as a message for the gang to turn over Naschy.
What a mess. This whole thing is the Doc's fault. All he had to do is tell Henry that Naschy can't be helped. But he escalates this by implicating his professor friend and his family, then he suggests they get Naschy's nemesis's brain. What a downward spiral. So, the Doc dies. Naschy wakes up with a massive headache and feels different and sleazy.
Paul on guard duty is killed by The Sadist's gang and is hung. Barbara goes into the professor's house and Nachy rapes, kills and stuffs her into a closet. Later he tries to rape a newspaper girl. Henry and Karl find and bury Paul. They find Naschy and bring him back to the house. The professor's wife wants to kill Naschy because he's a monster. The professor forbids this in the name of science. Henry has had enough and now after all the trouble he's caused decides to take off, along with Karl. The Sadist's gang gun down Henry. Karl guns down two of the Sadist's gang. Karl then gets killed. Naschy attacks the professor's wife, she stabs him with a syringe, he cracks his head through glass, picks up a gun and heads outside to be killed by the police alerted to the house by the newspaper girl's attack.
What a glorious mess this film is. This film came to me in a 50 movie set, Mad Scientists. French language, English Subtitles. Some nudity and violence. But it looks like it was cut and not in the best shape. The story was convoluted but intelligent. The acting was great. Mostly serious throughout. There's a great scene when Naschy is first recovering and he's making out with Ingrid where we see his arm stressing to strangle her, the music intensifies, and then Ingrid escapes, very well done. The other thing I found interesting is how the Doc got himself and his friends in such mounting trouble. Endangering everyone from the professor's family, then to the entire household including Naschy's gang. At the end we know the professor and his family and servant are ok. No idea what happened to Ingrid. There was only one member of The Sadist's gang left alive. He must have taken off before the cops showed up.
All in all, this was a very entertaining movie. Approached as a comedy, there's fun to be had. 7 stars, 10 stars for balance.
The professor's hands have been mangled, but his hot wife can do the surgery. The gang kidnaps the professor's daughter to blackmailing them into saving Naschy. They conclude that Naschy will need a partial brain replacement, and Doc choses Naschy's nemesis "The Sadist". Karl and Paul, the other gang member, are sent to kill The Sadist and bring back his head. We then see The Sadist, an unsavory fellow, in his club, with a wild dance number, a poker game where he falsely accuses the other players of cheating and robs and then threatens to kill them. Karl and Paul use Naschy's girlfriend, Ingrid, who happened to be with The Sadist before, to lure and seduce The Sadist, and Paul kills him. Now these knuckleheads try to cut The Sadist's head off but they lose the knife. Their next brilliant idea is to place the body on railroad tracks and it works, as soon as the train passes the head rolls down the hill into their hands.
The professor and his wife perform the operation on Naschy and it's a success. The Doc goes home. Henry brings back the professor's daughter. Henry then sends the Sadist's head to Barbara, The Sadist's girlfriend and the real brains behind their gang. Barbara and gang go to see the Doc and beat the crap out of him, then they get Ingrid. The Doc spills the beans, and then he is dumped off at the professor's house, I guess as a message for the gang to turn over Naschy.
What a mess. This whole thing is the Doc's fault. All he had to do is tell Henry that Naschy can't be helped. But he escalates this by implicating his professor friend and his family, then he suggests they get Naschy's nemesis's brain. What a downward spiral. So, the Doc dies. Naschy wakes up with a massive headache and feels different and sleazy.
Paul on guard duty is killed by The Sadist's gang and is hung. Barbara goes into the professor's house and Nachy rapes, kills and stuffs her into a closet. Later he tries to rape a newspaper girl. Henry and Karl find and bury Paul. They find Naschy and bring him back to the house. The professor's wife wants to kill Naschy because he's a monster. The professor forbids this in the name of science. Henry has had enough and now after all the trouble he's caused decides to take off, along with Karl. The Sadist's gang gun down Henry. Karl guns down two of the Sadist's gang. Karl then gets killed. Naschy attacks the professor's wife, she stabs him with a syringe, he cracks his head through glass, picks up a gun and heads outside to be killed by the police alerted to the house by the newspaper girl's attack.
What a glorious mess this film is. This film came to me in a 50 movie set, Mad Scientists. French language, English Subtitles. Some nudity and violence. But it looks like it was cut and not in the best shape. The story was convoluted but intelligent. The acting was great. Mostly serious throughout. There's a great scene when Naschy is first recovering and he's making out with Ingrid where we see his arm stressing to strangle her, the music intensifies, and then Ingrid escapes, very well done. The other thing I found interesting is how the Doc got himself and his friends in such mounting trouble. Endangering everyone from the professor's family, then to the entire household including Naschy's gang. At the end we know the professor and his family and servant are ok. No idea what happened to Ingrid. There was only one member of The Sadist's gang left alive. He must have taken off before the cops showed up.
All in all, this was a very entertaining movie. Approached as a comedy, there's fun to be had. 7 stars, 10 stars for balance.