Complete credited cast: | |||
Bela Lugosi | ... | Dr. George Lorenz | |
Luana Walters | ... | Patricia Hunter | |
Tristram Coffin | ... | Dr. Foster (as Tris Coffin) | |
Elizabeth Russell | ... | Countess Lorenz | |
Minerva Urecal | ... | Fagah | |
Angelo Rossitto | ... | Toby (as Angelo) | |
Joan Barclay | ... | Alice Wentworth | |
Kenneth Harlan | ... | Keenan - Editor | |
Gwen Kenyon | ... | Peggy Woods | |
Vince Barnett | ... | Sandy | |
Frank Moran | ... | Angel | |
George Eldredge | ... | Mike (as George Eldridge) |
Dr. Lorenz, a mad scientist, wants to keep his elderly wife young. He does this by kidnapping young females and extracting fluid from them. He then injects this fluid into his wife. Written by Josh Pasnak <chainsaw@intouch.bc.ca>
While I had pre-conceived notions of what this film would be like, I must confess that I was pleasantly surprised with this nice little old-fashioned horror story about a doctor who kidnaps "dead" brides only to remove spinal fluid in them to inject in his wife who is really 70 some odd years but looks thirtyish. Whew! Well I never said it was a great story, but it is a fine feature in which the great Lugosi can steal any scene he is in. The rest of the cast is adequate or below...some of the cast are just plain awful as with the female lead Luana Walters and the fella that plays her boss(Boy! They stink!). Yet, the story creates enough suspense to make this film very watchable and entertaining. I think the fact that it is barely over an hour in length also helps it create its zippy pacing. Minerva Urecal(from The Ape Man with Bela) and Angelo Rossitti(from Freaks) are in here, and they are fine as mysterious mother and dwarf-son Toby. The sets are pretty good considering the budget of the film and its Poverty Row Production. The fact Bela is in it is enough reason to see it, but at least with this film you get pretty good entertainment in the old traditional horror way.