since 2021
⭐⭐⭐ 70min A woman in shock is sent to the madhouse of Vincent Price
So there is this woman who is in shock because she has witnessed a murder. She is sent to a madhouse where the murderer now is her shrink.
Now this one didn’t age well, and while it’s not bad ittoday is mostly for those who really are into old movies. For the rest of us the most interesting thing in it is that Vincent Price looked actually good before he grew a beard.
So there is this professor wo suffers serious brain damage in an accident. His best friend, a doctor, performs a brain transplantation, using a criminal as organ donor. Indeed, the professor recovers, and it takes a while until the criminal’s personality takes over more and more often. Good thing too, the doctor thinks, because he wants to get the gangster’s lost money.
Makes you wonder: why is the doctor surprised when the man with the criminal’s brain starts acting like the criminal? Everybody who watches the movie must be surprised that the professor remained pretty much himself at first. Another thing that I don’t understand is the casting. In the first place it was planned that Karloff would be the professor and Lugosi the doctor. But then Karloff was the doctor and Lugosi played a gangster with precious little screen time.
Pity. While I do appreciate the old-fashioned b&w screen gems I must say that this is not one of them. It’s a wasted chance.
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