Atomic Age Vampire, is not your average vampire movie.The movie opens with a woman horribly disfigured after an automobile accident.The story, it does not immediately feel like horror.Unusual treatment is suggested. The movie adds a mad scientist; or a weird science horror twist, to the plot.The treatment, suggesting: affecting people with vampirism.Miraculous regeneration treatment with a cost.From the start, it feels more like science fiction than actual horror.The story, seems to be a little over- drawn. It takes a while, to get to the vampire element of the tale.When I think atomic age; I think of films lie Return of the Vampire. I don't see the relation to era in the movie's title.Atomic Age Vampire, is not necessarily a bad movie; it just does not feel to me as being a classic horror film.

The actual title for this Italian film is "Seddok, l'erede di Satana". The version/copy I have is dubbed over in English very well which made it easy to watch and enjoy.The movie is not half bad - it actually kept my interest until the very end of the film. This is the type of movie that horror buffs might enjoy when they are in the mood for a fairly good older b-rated sci-fi horror flick.Jeanette Moreneau (Susanne Loret) is a stripper and had her face disfigured in a car accident. She ends up in a hospital where she meets her soon-to-be doctor & caretaker Prof. Alberto Levin (Alberto Lupo). Jeanette soon finds herself trapped in Prof. Levin's care for you see Prof. Levin has developed a treatment that can restore the cells and return the skin back to normal - but for how long and at what cost? I found the movie entertaining and interesting although it's not what I would call a really, really good b-rated horror film - it's simply not bad and is fairly interesting.6/10

Many of us grew up seeing this Italian horror flick on TV under its alternate American title, ATOM AGE VAMPIRE. The most readily available copies are truncated and badly dubbed into English, and ran anywhere from 60 to 80-ish minutes, despite it originally being something like 105 minutes. My review is based on rediscovering the movie through a recently released Italian DVD in its original running time and true title - SEDDOK, L'ETEREDE SATANA. The results are definitely better, as there is a new striptease scene added in addition to more dialogue (all of it in Italian) and extra scenes with the monster featured in the film ... but this is still only a so-so time killer for dedicated horror hounds only.A gorgeous blonde stripper (Susanne Loret) has half her face scarred up after a bad car wreck, and so an older doctor (Alberto Lupo) who's been experimenting with glandular treatments manages to restore her beauty. But he ends up falling in love with her, and when the cure proves only to be temporary, the doctor must go out and kill other women in order to keep the restoration process going. Since he can't bring himself to murder, he willingly transforms into a horrible monster to give him the guts to carry out his diabolical intent.If the bulk of that synopsis does not sound familiar, well it should ... this is not by any means a fresh idea, and most recently had been dabbled with in a superior French film, LES YEUX SANS VISAGE (1959). The film in its original length does seem somewhat overlong and padded, though in all fairness the Italian DVD is only partly in English, as the new scenes were never dubbed. And since it's not English subtitled either, we are still away from the "perfect" release to evaluate the movie in the U.S. **1/2 out of ****

Atom Age Vampire played for years and years in drive-ins across America, I really have no idea why the film seemed to be a perennial of the drive-in circuits but it was. Strangely the film never seemed to play in New York on TV and I never saw it until the advent of home video.The film is the well worn tale of a mad scientist seeking to restore the beauty of disfigured woman and turning into a monster in the process. Its the sort of thing you've seen both before and since both better and worse. Here the film is infused with European settings and moody black and white photography that seem to make the film better than the normal. Not a great film it is an entertaining one and the sort of thing best watched on a dark and stormy night with the lights out.