Mad scientist stuff, having to do with a wheelchair-bound, black-gloved Pavlovian who habitually cracks his knuckles and performs frontal lobotomies on whoever checks into his sanatorium for a weekend of rest and relaxation. Knowledgeably eclectic and quirkily humorous, but in the long run stunted and disappointing, particularly the late-arriving monster who looks like a melted candle. It's directed by Antony Balch, a horror connoisseur who was responsible for the belated release, in England, of Tod Browning's Freaks (makes one attach special significance here to the mischievous dwarf played by Skip Martin) and for the English soundtrack added to Benjamin Christensen's silent Witchcraft through the Ages. With Michael Gough, Vanessa Shaw, Robin Askwith. (1973) — Duncan Shepherd
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