Sidney J. Furie

People are mysteriously disappearing in a picturesque Cornish village. Coinciding with the disappearances is the return, from a period of study in Vienna, of Doctor Peter Blood (Kieron Moore). Blood has developed a Frankenstein-like fascination with reviving the dead and has fashioned a lab deep within an abandoned tin mine. Obsessed with his quest he begins to sink into paranoia and madness, but still has the time to romance the lovely Linda Parker (Hazel Court), the nurse of his father, Dr show more Robert Blood (Ian Hunter) the kindly village GP. This is a moody little effort that's nicely directed and paced by Sidney J. Furie. The location photography is excellent with some great clifftop landscape photography. Cinematographer Stephen Dade gives the film a nice look with some excellent colour photography that varies between the lurid lab set and the peaceful village scenes. Future director Nicolas Roeg is the camera operator on the film. There are some surprisingly gory surgery sequences in the film interspersed with some equally surprising philosophical dialogue about the moral consequences of Blood's experiments. Kieron Moore is good as the obsessive and dangerous Doctor Blood as is Hazel Court, who has a bit more to do than simple love interest. Although the film never really catches fire it is still a nicely constructed, well acted and, at times, quite thoughtful horror thriller. show less

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