A wife in mourning(Soledad Miranda, in her final screen performance)molds into a lady executioner out for vengeance towards those she holds responsible for not only destroying her husbands dreams, but being the reason for his suicide.
Dr. Johnson(Fred Williams)is holding out hope that the medical council will grant him permission to further continue in his research and experiments in the altering of the human organism with the aid of hormones(culled from animal and infant embryos). Deemed a charlatan by the four main voices on the council, Professor Walker(Howard Vernon), Dr. Huston(Paul Muller), Dr. Crawford(Ewa Strömberg) and Dr. Donen(Jesus Franco)he is scorned for an infringement on the Hippocratic oath. He will be discontinued from the practice of medicine and rejected by the medical community as a criminal for using human embryos from fetuses. He claims that his research is for saving lives and that their claims of his being such a monster are false. But, their voices are stronger than his and Dr. Johnson's career is finished which, within time, slowly drives him mad. The ringing of the medical council's hurling insults at his character rattle in his mind without ceasing..to the point that even his wife(Miranda), nakedly pursuing a sexual embrace, can not seduce him from his mental plight. With the rejection of his peers, Dr. Johnson sees no other alternative but suicide. Mr. Johnson's demise will drive his wife to seek retribution against those who took away her beloved.
The film's rub is the exposing of those four founding members of the medical hierarchy where we see the cloak of their morality stripped away through the acts of seduction from Mrs. Johnson who is able to break down their barriers into hedonism. Mrs. Johnson's feminine wiles are too irresistible for the first three, with only Donen getting his comeuppance through other means.When Mrs. Johnson embraces a target, we see visions of her warm loving moments with her husband..these memories add extra incentive towards finishing the kill.
Tailor-made role for Soledad Miranda where she is center-stage as both seductress and assassin. The film isn't that violent..most of the murderous acts are shot in a way to avoid explicit gore. But, Miranda shows the skin..that's a guarantee I can give you loudly. Lingerie and naked, Miranda's lady-of-vengeance will do whatever it takes to bring her victims into a compromising position so that they can meet their maker. I thought she was good. Damn good. Great scene towards the end showing Miranda crouched in the corner of a couch going insane as she thinks about the memories of her husband before his being "put on trial." And, no one is as sexy smoking a cigarette as she was.
Dr. Johnson(Fred Williams)is holding out hope that the medical council will grant him permission to further continue in his research and experiments in the altering of the human organism with the aid of hormones(culled from animal and infant embryos). Deemed a charlatan by the four main voices on the council, Professor Walker(Howard Vernon), Dr. Huston(Paul Muller), Dr. Crawford(Ewa Strömberg) and Dr. Donen(Jesus Franco)he is scorned for an infringement on the Hippocratic oath. He will be discontinued from the practice of medicine and rejected by the medical community as a criminal for using human embryos from fetuses. He claims that his research is for saving lives and that their claims of his being such a monster are false. But, their voices are stronger than his and Dr. Johnson's career is finished which, within time, slowly drives him mad. The ringing of the medical council's hurling insults at his character rattle in his mind without ceasing..to the point that even his wife(Miranda), nakedly pursuing a sexual embrace, can not seduce him from his mental plight. With the rejection of his peers, Dr. Johnson sees no other alternative but suicide. Mr. Johnson's demise will drive his wife to seek retribution against those who took away her beloved.
The film's rub is the exposing of those four founding members of the medical hierarchy where we see the cloak of their morality stripped away through the acts of seduction from Mrs. Johnson who is able to break down their barriers into hedonism. Mrs. Johnson's feminine wiles are too irresistible for the first three, with only Donen getting his comeuppance through other means.When Mrs. Johnson embraces a target, we see visions of her warm loving moments with her husband..these memories add extra incentive towards finishing the kill.
Tailor-made role for Soledad Miranda where she is center-stage as both seductress and assassin. The film isn't that violent..most of the murderous acts are shot in a way to avoid explicit gore. But, Miranda shows the skin..that's a guarantee I can give you loudly. Lingerie and naked, Miranda's lady-of-vengeance will do whatever it takes to bring her victims into a compromising position so that they can meet their maker. I thought she was good. Damn good. Great scene towards the end showing Miranda crouched in the corner of a couch going insane as she thinks about the memories of her husband before his being "put on trial." And, no one is as sexy smoking a cigarette as she was.