Nice and amazing movie stars Boris Karloff who's awesome as the philantropic doctor investigating with good purports , but resulting in fateful results . Set in 1940 , London , surgeon Thomas Bolton (Boris Karloff plays his usual threatening doctor to perfection) fights for the use of anesthetic in surgery and uses himself as a guinea pig , but soon , accidentally , finds himself addicted . Thomas is a good-nature and caring man and even runs a free clinic for the unfortunate and underprivileged people . In an effort to relieve the suffering of surgery patients , kindly surgeon Dr. Thomas Bolton attempts to perfect an anesthesia and while becoming an addicted to narcotics , then turns to heinous thieves to support his habit . In a mental fog , he is blackmailed by grave robbers (Christopher Lee , Francis De Wolff) so that he provides his signature to justify the murdered corpses executed by the vicious gang . Bolton accepts in order to continue his experiments and support his addiction and a continual supply of chemicals . Then , a series of grisly killings happening and an intelligent Police Inspector (Nigel Greene) investigates the strange events and eventually unravelling the mystery . Tops in Terror! . Karloff King of Monsters in his new picture of 1000 Horrors ! Karloff King of the Monsters in his new Horror Hit !
A surpringly effective horror/thriller set in nineteeth-century London and originally withheld from release in the USA for five years . A pretty good and gripping picture dealing with scientific experiments to get better the pain on sick people and patients to operate , adding the ¨Burke and Hare grave-robbers¨ theme with a den of murderers to sell cadavers to the local hospital . Eeerie and frightening story from a story and script written by Jean Scott Rogers who contributed efficiently to deliver a really riveting tale . An entertaining and horrifying fare in which the veteran Boris Karloff plays masterfully a scientist who develops grisly tendencies when he's drugged and with terrible , unexpected consequences. Boris Karloff gives one of the best interpretations as a scientist doctor who painstakingly develops an opium-based anesthetic , to which he gradually becomes submitted. This splendid film brought Karloff back to British films after 20 years away , from now on , Boris to play several English horror movies : ¨The haunted strangler¨, "The Sorcerers" , "Curse of Red Altar" and other countries as Italy : "Black Sabbath" , Spain : " Cauldron of Bood" and Mexico : " Cult of the Dead" , : The Incredible Invasion" , "Fear Chamber" . For the ocassion Karloff , without makeup , puts weird faces , twisted gestures and terrific manners , causing a deeply creepy impression . Karloff is very well accompanied by a good support cast , such as : Francis Matthews as his son , Betta St. John as the girlfriend , Nigel Green as a tough Police Detective , Finlay Currie , Adrienne Corri , Francis De Wolff , Yvonne Romain and the great Christopher Lee and an ominous series killer.
There's a magnificently atmospheric cinematography , heightened by professional cameraman Geoffrey Faithfull providing vivid black and white photography . As well as thrilling and stirring musical score by Buxton Orr . This literate terror thriller was fascinating competently directed by Robert Day . This British director was a good artisan who made all kinds of genres as adventures , thriller , terror , such as : "The Big Game" , " Corridors of Blood" , " Click and the dead" , "Initiation of Sarah" , "Man with Bogart's Face" , " Grass is always Greener over the Septic Tank", "She" , "The Way Stretch" . Furthermore , he made TV series episodes from Dallas, Disleyland , The Sixth Sense , Ghost story , Sam Cade , Matt Lincoln , The Bold ones , Ironside, FBI , The Invaders The avengers , among others . Rating : 7.5/10 . Better than average . Essential and indispensable watiching for horror aficionados . The yarn will appeal to Boris Karloff fans . Worthwhile seeing .
A surpringly effective horror/thriller set in nineteeth-century London and originally withheld from release in the USA for five years . A pretty good and gripping picture dealing with scientific experiments to get better the pain on sick people and patients to operate , adding the ¨Burke and Hare grave-robbers¨ theme with a den of murderers to sell cadavers to the local hospital . Eeerie and frightening story from a story and script written by Jean Scott Rogers who contributed efficiently to deliver a really riveting tale . An entertaining and horrifying fare in which the veteran Boris Karloff plays masterfully a scientist who develops grisly tendencies when he's drugged and with terrible , unexpected consequences. Boris Karloff gives one of the best interpretations as a scientist doctor who painstakingly develops an opium-based anesthetic , to which he gradually becomes submitted. This splendid film brought Karloff back to British films after 20 years away , from now on , Boris to play several English horror movies : ¨The haunted strangler¨, "The Sorcerers" , "Curse of Red Altar" and other countries as Italy : "Black Sabbath" , Spain : " Cauldron of Bood" and Mexico : " Cult of the Dead" , : The Incredible Invasion" , "Fear Chamber" . For the ocassion Karloff , without makeup , puts weird faces , twisted gestures and terrific manners , causing a deeply creepy impression . Karloff is very well accompanied by a good support cast , such as : Francis Matthews as his son , Betta St. John as the girlfriend , Nigel Green as a tough Police Detective , Finlay Currie , Adrienne Corri , Francis De Wolff , Yvonne Romain and the great Christopher Lee and an ominous series killer.
There's a magnificently atmospheric cinematography , heightened by professional cameraman Geoffrey Faithfull providing vivid black and white photography . As well as thrilling and stirring musical score by Buxton Orr . This literate terror thriller was fascinating competently directed by Robert Day . This British director was a good artisan who made all kinds of genres as adventures , thriller , terror , such as : "The Big Game" , " Corridors of Blood" , " Click and the dead" , "Initiation of Sarah" , "Man with Bogart's Face" , " Grass is always Greener over the Septic Tank", "She" , "The Way Stretch" . Furthermore , he made TV series episodes from Dallas, Disleyland , The Sixth Sense , Ghost story , Sam Cade , Matt Lincoln , The Bold ones , Ironside, FBI , The Invaders The avengers , among others . Rating : 7.5/10 . Better than average . Essential and indispensable watiching for horror aficionados . The yarn will appeal to Boris Karloff fans . Worthwhile seeing .