People talk about the “vampire craze” ushered in by the publication of the Twilight books, but this movie (filmed in Italian in 1960, dubbed into English for some sinister purpose) proves that the vampire craze is as eternal as the actual vampires.
Speaking of actual vampires, though, this movie doesn’t have any. What it DOES have is a handsome mad scientist who creates a sinister serum and then has to murder young women to harvest their “glands” for complicated reasons.
But I’m getting ahead of myself.
- Script Quality: For all I know the Italian script was brilliant. The English one, not so much. It’s serviceable. 5/10.
- Acting Quality: Also serviceable, and I think the stripper/heroine and the lovesick assistant-to-the-doctor were having fun with this. 5/10
- Overall feeling afterwards: I feel so much better right now about my extensive collection of skincare products, none of which required me to murder anyone.
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