Cast: Bill Woods, Horace B. Carpenter
Now that I have my horror classics collection, I decided to make something new. Welcome to Saturday Night Horror at the Psycho Ward! So I decided not to watch all 50 movies from Disc 1 through Disc 12 in order and I decided to jump around a bit. Tonight I went to Disc 5, Side A for this 1934 B horror/exploitation film.
THE PLOT (from our friends at Wikipedia):
Don Maxwell (Bill Woods) is a former vaudeville impersonator who is working as the lab assistant to Dr. Meirschultz (Horace Carpenter) a mad scientist attempting to bring the dead back to life. When Don kills Meirschultz, he attempts to hide his crime by "becoming" the doctor, taking over his work, dressing like him, wearing his beard, and slowly going insane.
The "doctor" treats a mental patient, Buckley (Ted Edwards), but accidentally injects him with adrenaline, which causes him to go into violent fits. Buckley's wife (Phyllis Diller) discovers the body of the real doctor, and blackmails Don into turning her husband into a zombie. The ersatz doctor turns the tables on her by manipulating her into fighting with his estranged wife (Thea Ramsey), a former showgirl. When the cat-breeding neighbor Goof (played by an unknown actor) sees what's going on, he calls the police, who stop the fight and, following the sound of Satan the cat, find the body of the real doctor hidden behind a brick wall.
THE REVIEW: This movie was most likely made before the implementation of the Hayes Code, hence its alternate title, Sex Maniac, and the amount of skin we see from the women in the film. The movie certainly didn't seem like 51 minutes. It seemed like 20. Nothing about it was genuinely scary, and the acting in the beginning was overdone. It was a fun little mad scientist ride, but it has absolutely nothing on Colin Clive and Dwight Frye in the '31 Frankenstein. I give it 2.5 stars out of 5.
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