Horrors of Malformed Men (Kyôfu kikei ningen: Edogawa Rampo zenshû)
Directed by Teruo Ishii
Written by Teruo Ishii and Masahiro Kakefuda from a novel by Rampu Edogawa
1969/Japan
IMDb link
First viewing/Amazon Instant
They Shoot Zombies, Don’t They?
“I must confess that I lost faith in the sanity of the world”
― H.G. Wells, The Island of Doctor Moreau
This one didn’t wow me.
The plot has a lot of the feeling of Island of Lost Souls (1932) although it derives from different source material. A medical doctor begins to have hallucinations and is eventually committed to an insane asylum. He becomes acquainted with his apparent doppelganger, a dead man. He is lured to an island run by a mad scientist who has surgically deformed men and women with plans of creating a super-race. The doctor goes on to experience various horrific and sexual adventures.
This is apparently something of a cult classic. It is indeed sufficiently weird and inept to merit that status. I was looking for decent creatures and a few scares. The film failed to deliver in this regard. It does feature a lot of bare breasts for connoisseurs of that kind of thing. The below trailer represents the movie pretty well.
