Dr. Blood’s Coffin
Directed by Sidney J. Furie
Written by Nathan Juran; adapted by James Kelly and Peter Miller
1961/UK
Caralan Productions
First viewing/Netflix rental
[box] “Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.” ― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein[/box]
This gory twist on the Frankenstein story doesn’t quite deliver the thrills it should.
Dr. Peter Blood (Kieron Moore) is a frustrated man. Small-minded professors in Vienna refuse to let him experiment on human subjects. He returns to his native village in England and the home of his physician father in hopes that he will be left alone. He is foiled at every turn but not before one last, successful, attempt at reanimation. With Ian Hunter as his father and Hazel Court as the love interest.
Moore seems too much like a romantic lead to be very convincing as a mad scientist. There’s lots of filler between the blood and guts sequences and those don’t add up to much in the end, anyway. Missable.
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