Bela Lugosi's career was well on the skids by 1942 as this programmer testifies, but the film has a genuinely weird quality that makes it well worth investigating. Lugosi plays a mad botanist who kidnaps virgin brides from the altar to provide glandular injections needed to keep his
80-year-old wife (Elizabeth Russell) fresh and young. Assisting him are an old woman and her half-wit son (Minerva Urecal and Frank Moran) and a dwarf named Toby (Angelo Rossitto). A girl reporter (Luana Walters) finally cracks the case. What with a gothic castle, a crazy botanist, poison orchids,
virgin brides, glandular injections, an old hag, and a dwarf, this is a pretty strange fil...
Released:
1942
Rated:
NR
Length:
64 mins