A brilliant but deranged neurosurgeon becomes obsessively fixated on a judge's daughter. With the help of an escaped criminal whose face he has surgically deformed, the mad man lures her, her father, and her fiancé to his isolated, castle-like home.
Directed by Lew Landers
plastic surgery
revenge
serial killer
mad doctor
torture chamber
car accident
gothic romance
poe fanatic
mad surgeon
psychotic obsessions
obsessed with a woman
IMDB
N/A
Letterboxd
3.3 / 5
Where to Watch
Cast
Boris Karloff
Edmond Bateman
Bela Lugosi
Dr. Richard Vollin
Lester Matthews
Dr. Jerry Holden
Irene Ware
Jean Thatcher
Samuel S. Hinds
Judge Thatcher
Spencer Charters
Col. Bertram Grant
Inez Courtney
Mary Burns
Ian Wolfe
Geoffrey 'Pinky' Burns
Maidel Turner
Mrs. Grant
Al Ferguson
The Crook (uncredited)
Jonathan Hale
Bedside Dr. at Jerry's Right (uncredited)
Arthur Hoyt
Chapman - Buyer of Poe Memorabilia (uncredited)
Crew
Lew Landers
Director
Otto Lederer
Makeup Artist
Edgar Allan Poe
Short Story
Albert S. D'Agostino
Art Direction
Jack Pierce
Makeup Designer
Popular Reviews
36 reviews
Hhh
7.0★ · 08/20/25
yeah, he seems sane to me!
yeah, he seems sane to me!
Lance
8.3★ · 07/27/25
bela lugosi and boris karloff essentially play dracula lite and frankenstein lite and it was kinda disappointing to see ?
i was really actually enjoying the story until the end like i just wanted them to fully commit and have dr vollin come out on top but i'm guessing they had to end with the bad guys having been defeated because of the hays code 👎👎👎
fuck you hays code all my homies hate the hays code
also i would just like to point out the fact that several times in this movie bela lugosi's character claims that he will be "the sanest man in the world" after he finishes torturing his victims
bela lugosi and boris karloff essentially play dracula lite and frankenstein lite and it was kinda disappointing to see ?
i was really actually enjoying the story until the end like i just wanted them to fully commit and have dr vollin come out on top but i'm guessing they had to end with the bad guys having been defeated because of the hays code 👎👎👎
fuck you hays code all my homies hate the hays code
also i would just like to point out the fact that several times in this movie bela lugosi's character claims that he will be "the sanest man in the world" after he finishes torturing his victims
