It's quite dispiriting when actors with a long career end up in this kind of trashy stuff. In this case. Richard Basehart as the lead at least gets to be centre-stage but Gloria Grahame hardly gets a line, she's practically an extra. The plot is pretty hackeyed. An eminent optoth, ophtmog, ....eye doctor who dotes on his only child, a daughter, loses his marbles when his atrocious driving results in an accident and her blindness. This inspires him to go rogue and start experimnting on whoever is handy to extract their eyes and pop them into his daughter, with variable results. Even a police detective has a close shave. The victims aren't knocked off but kept on hold in the basement as he intends to restore their sight once all the kinks in the process have been ironed out. To pass the time, they compete to see who can do the best zombie impression. It all doesn't end well. Or begin well. And the middle sucks too.
Review of Mansion of the Doomed
