Wow, what a wild movie, unbelievable what you can do with 61 minutes! It stars our favorite guys, Boris as Edmond Bateman and Bela as Dr. Richard Vollin, along with a great supporting cast including Lester Matthews as Dr. Jerry Halden, Irene Ware as Jean Thatcher and Samuel S. Hinds as Judge Thatcher.
In this story, Dr. Vollin is a brilliant but unstable surgeon that is obsessed with Edgar Allan Poe and instruments of torture. He saves the life of dancer and socialite Jean Thatcher after her car accident. Vollin becomes obsessed with her and what happens next is as shocking as it gets, a true tale of terror!
Vollin is called to perform the surgery on Jean, but he's retired and has no interest in the offer. But after Judge Thatcher, father of Jean, goes to Vollin's home and begs him, the surgeon finally agrees to perform the surgery...
Jean has fully recovered and visits Vollin, he plays the organ and after he finishes she tells him what a gifted man he is, almost like a god, he takes it wrong and get's a little too frisky. She's late for a dinner date with her fiancee and leaves.
She invites him to her dance program where she dances while "The Raven" is read to the audience by another cast member. A surprise for Vollin since he loves Poe.
After the show, Vollin is totally gushy with Jean, and pops don't likes what he's seeing!
Then, Edmond Bateman shows up and wants the doctor to change his face so that he can't be recognized, you see, he's wanted for murder!
After Vollin figures out that he can use Bateman as his assistant in another murder, he agrees to do the operation. But, he mutilates him and Bateman must obey Vollin's orders if he wants a normal looking face again, in other words, blackmail...
Vollin locks Bateman in the basement and opens all the curtains so that he can see his new face, as he had requested!
Judge Thatcher has told Vollin to leave his daughter alone, but invites her and her beau Jerry to visit for the weekend with other guests. Jean has left a note telling her father to come up too for the weekend. Reluctantly, the judge also drives to Vollin's place.
Vollin has dressed up Bateman as a butler, and he scares the crap out of Jean!
Vollin takes Bateman to his torture room to show him his treasures, and assures him that they are ready for use! Wow, look at the detail in this pic.
When Vollin lays down on a table to show how it works, Bateman pushes a lever that traps the doctor! Bateman starts the 'Pit And The Pendulum' blade, Vollin reminds him about fixing his face and he's released. But Vollin was sweating it there for a moment!
That night, Jean gets a surprise in her room when Bateman tries to enter trough a trap door in the floor! She screams and he leaves the way he came.
Vollin and Bateman grab Judge Thatcher and take him through a metal door to the dungeon. Jerry tries to stop them but Bateman socks him in the mush, knocking him clean out!
Bateman gently places the judge onto the slab and locks him down.
Vollin has a wall panel that has a number of levers to trap and torture his victims. Here, he pushes the 'elevator' lever and Jean's room drops down to the dungeon!
Jean's screaming and Bateman is sent in to make her shut up... Let's get one thing clear, Bateman hates Vollin with a vengeance, and Jean tells him that Vollin will not help him, but she will, making the monster think about it.
Vollin lets Jerry into the room and put him and Jean in one of his special rooms. He tells them that they will be together... FOREVER!!
Vollin is one of the most evil men that ever lived!! Up there with the Ex.
In the meantime, the judge is really starting to panic as the blade closes in!
Vollin has Bateman push the lever that makes the walls start closing in on Jerry and Jean. Newsflash, Vollin is out of his freakin' mind!!
But Bateman pulls the lever back up which stops the walls and opens the door, so, the doctor shoots Bateman. But the brute charges Vollin and knocks his out, then drags him into the room.
Bateman pushes the lever again and the door closes before he then keels over dead.
This is so delicious, the victim of his own making. He'll be insane before he gets crushed, a well deserved death!!
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