Hollywoodshack I tuned in thinking this was a film from Mario Bava, but it was really produced by Mario Fava! The mad scientist doesn't do anything a vampire does, he just periodically turns into a monster to murder several women and extract a cure from their glands for burn scars. He finally plans to murder his own patient who doesn't love him, turning into several different monsters, but it was supposed to be different stages of the same monster. Time drags by while he repeats his obsession with finding a cure and possessing control over the scarred stripper to prevent the marks from coming back on her face. Echoes repeat dialogue in thoughts out loud. Dubbing is terrible and parts have probably been cut for TV, probably the better ones.

AlexanderAnubis Seddok, l'erede di Satana (1960) aka Atom Age Vampire CONTAINS SPOILERSAs another IMDb reviewer has written, this film is only "recommended for horror fans." The basic story is very familiar: hubris and the use of questionable, experimental methods to return an injured woman's (Susanne Loret) unblemished beauty leads to murder, mayhem, madness and moral decay. Done better - in places - than the 'Atom Age Vampire' title implies, which is probably more descriptive of the US (1963 drive-ins?) marketing than the film's plot. The actual facial injury is not horrific, or even particularly ugly but still causes great distress - Gloria Grahame would have understood perfectly - and it provides Ms. Loret a couple of opportunities to do Veronica Lake and mask it quite attractively with a fall of hair. It also provides more than a couple of moments of unintentional humor.It is also refreshing to see some small restraint on the gratuitous destruction of the protagonists; the negative side effects, (and funnier makeup), of tampering in inappropriate domains ultimately falls on the tamperer, (where they belong), and not the innocent accident victim. Since Loret's character is a dancer/stripper/etc that could have been used as a pretext, (certainly if this had been a 1960 US production), to turn her into a cardboard cutout labeled Harlot &/or Sin of Vanity and treat her like Dorian Gray or Victor Frankenstein along with the arrogant scientist (Alberto Lupo). Instead, in the end she is apparently cured and free to live happily ever after.Browsing IMDb I learned there exists, (or existed), an original, uncut, un-dubbed 105 minute version, which I will probably never see, but doubt that the omission will be one of my deathbed regrets. However, there is an entry for this movie at Wikipedia which states: "Although no 105 minute print has ever been found, it is believed by some that the 105 minute running time was because the deleted VHS release on Acme Video stated a run time of ±105 Mins. (when it meant 1 Hour and 5 minutes)." The article is supported by the reasonably solid sounding reference: Science Fiction Film Source Book, David Wingrove, Longman Group Ltd., 1985. At any rate the question has apparently been under scrutiny for 30+ years.Just in case this isn't tiresome enough, the US video release was snipped to 72 minutes, and when it made it to DVD was further reduced to 69 minutes....but 1 hr + 5 m = 65 m =/= 69 m, so perhaps the argument above that the 105 minute version never existed is flawed. There are depths to be plumbed here by a courageous investigator.The film is out of copyright, (maybe nobody wanted to bother renewing it), and is available from the Internet Archive – their copy is probably ripped from VHS or other tape media but the quality is quite good, (well, watchable), and it is the full 5220 seconds.XYZ

Ben Larson I love Italian horror, but this one just didn't have the punch that I am used to with Fulci or Bava. The premise was good, but it didn't deliver completely.It was interesting anyway as a girl (Susanne Loret) gets disfigured in an auto accident and a mad scientist doctor (Alberto Lupo) promises to make her beautiful again.The Doctor and his assistant work on the girl, but the results are only temporary and they are out of serum. That's when the Doctor's secret is revealed and he goes into action attacking young girls to keep his treasured beauty alive. The first to go is his assistant.He has a way of transforming himself into a Mr. Hyde and back to Dr. Jeckyl. The girls old boyfriend and the police are hot on his tail.Interesting tale, but Fulci would have done it better.

dbdumonteil "Seddok" looks like a parboiled cross between Georges Franju 's "Les Yeux Sans Visage " (Eyes without a face) ,released the same year -The doctor and his assistant recall Pierre Brasseur's and Alida Valli's parts in the highly superior French horror movie- and "Dr Jekill and Mister Hyde" with a dash of "La Belle Et La Bête" thrown in for good measure .The first part is more or less coherent but the second one does not make much sense and the only original character is the deaf and dumb servant who grows flowers in the greenhouse :it's him who steals the show in the last scenes .Female star Susanne Loret quickly left cinema for photo romances and she became one of the stars of Lancio productions.The movie has an unusual length (105 min) for this kind of low-budget production.