This is a melodramatic mixture of science fiction, crime drama and the typical femme fatale saga of film noir. It stars Mari Blanchard as a dying woman who is suddenly cured through a serum made out of something that came out of a fruit fly and she ends up with the ability to not only change her hair color but to be cured by a panther scratch, a bullet wound and survive a horrendous car wreck. She is probably one of the most wicked women in film history, looking into a mirror and watching her blond hair turn dark again after she is slapped by jealous wife Faye Baker whom she later strangles to death. Earlier, she had turned her black hair blond after assaulting a man who dropped money in a department store that she wanted to get her hands on.
Blanchard ends up married to Baker's widower, John Archer, whom she becomes instantly board with and arranges the car crash after he shoots her after realizing what a tramp she is. She is able to manipulate him into thinking that he was wrong when all the while she intends to smash his body into pieces as she walks away unscathed. It's up to doctors Jack Kelly and Albert Dekker to try and save her soul by convincing her to allow them to apply a reversal serum that will return her to who she was. but with a woman this evil, that will be difficult to do, and it becomes a definite question how the serum would react should she agree.
This is a hoot as far as melodramas go, and it has so many different themes, it is difficult to classify. I choose to consider it a combination of science fiction & horror because of the elements that Kelly and Dekker used to try to save her. They are not mad doctor's like Karloff or Lugosi or Price, but doctors who experiment with wild animals in an effort to find cures for humans. Blanchard doesn't start off as one-dimensional evil, but it is very apparent that the film is saying that you shouldn't mess around with science when it comes to a person's soul. This film is fun to watch for Blanchard's over the top performance and character actress Marie Blake (billed here as Blossom Rock) who gets a few good zingers in. Other than that, it is completely preposterous but one you can watch and have a good time laughing at.
Blanchard ends up married to Baker's widower, John Archer, whom she becomes instantly board with and arranges the car crash after he shoots her after realizing what a tramp she is. She is able to manipulate him into thinking that he was wrong when all the while she intends to smash his body into pieces as she walks away unscathed. It's up to doctors Jack Kelly and Albert Dekker to try and save her soul by convincing her to allow them to apply a reversal serum that will return her to who she was. but with a woman this evil, that will be difficult to do, and it becomes a definite question how the serum would react should she agree.
This is a hoot as far as melodramas go, and it has so many different themes, it is difficult to classify. I choose to consider it a combination of science fiction & horror because of the elements that Kelly and Dekker used to try to save her. They are not mad doctor's like Karloff or Lugosi or Price, but doctors who experiment with wild animals in an effort to find cures for humans. Blanchard doesn't start off as one-dimensional evil, but it is very apparent that the film is saying that you shouldn't mess around with science when it comes to a person's soul. This film is fun to watch for Blanchard's over the top performance and character actress Marie Blake (billed here as Blossom Rock) who gets a few good zingers in. Other than that, it is completely preposterous but one you can watch and have a good time laughing at.