There are no surprises here in this quaint tale of a mad scientist, Dr. Peter Blood (Kieron Moore - The Day of the Triffids), who was run out of Vienna, and is now killing in the English countryside.Nurse Parker (Hazel Court - Curse of Frankenstein) falls in love with him, of course, but that doesn't help her when he needs another body to cut on.BAFTA winner Sidney J. Furie (The Ipcress File) was very capable in his direction, but he didn't have much to work with. The actors were capable, but the script was just another Frankenstein story.Love these old classics!

Creepy little horror film that I like a great deal. The plot has Dr Blood returning to his home in England to take over for his dad. Unfortunately for the town the younger Blood is actually trying to follow in the footsteps of Dr Frankenstein and revive the dead, and to that end he has set up shop in an abandoned mine and has been kidnapping the locals to continue the experiments that got him run out of Vienna. Coming out of the British horror boom of the late 1950's and early 1960's this is neat little low key film that uses its locations and a muted color scheme to great effect. Where the Hammer films in someways heightened everything into an almost fairytale like feel, this film goes the opposite way using the drabness of the real world to make a real feeling film. Indeed the film doesn't throw too many unreal twists or way out ideas at you its all low key and close to reality which helps to add to the feeling of unease. Is the film perfect? No. Its clunky in some of the ways that the revive the dead films are and perhaps things are a bit too contrived, with Hazel Court's rescue being too aptly timed. That said its still a nice way to pass a rainy Saturday night n front of the TV with a bowl of popcorn and a soda. 7 is out of 10.

(Some Spoilers) Thrown out of the prestigious Vienna Medical Academy for his illegal experiments Dr. Peter Blood, Kieron Moore,is now back home in the lovely and scenic coastal town of Port Carron England to continue his work undercover and underground. Using his fathers position as the town doctor Robert Blood, Ian Hunter Peter builds a laboratory in the deserted coal mines outside the town to do his business undisturbed. While vacationing in the South American jungles Peter discovered the drug Curare from the local native tribesmen and has been using it in his experiments in his theory of eternal life. A brilliant but arrogant student Peter felt that he's smarter then all the professors and teachers in the academy put together. Which lead to him being run out of town, Vienna, on a rail. Still not learning his lesson Peter is back on the road to destruction with him kidnapping people in and around town and after knocking them out working them over, in his secret lab,by taking organs out of one and putting them in another to keep the one receiving the organ going until he needs a new transplant. Looking and acting normal on the outside the tall dark and handsome Peter attracts, his fathers Dr. Robert Blood's assistant, pretty nurse and recent widow Lnda Parker, Hazel Court,who at first falls in love with him. Peter putting on an act that he's in love with Linda takes her to his secret lab in the coal mines to, what seems to me, knock her out put her under the paralyzing drug Curare. Peter then use her in his experiments of involuntary organ donations. Lucky for Linda Peter's mad scheme is interrupted by the local town hobo Tregaye, Fred Johnson, who unknowingly to himself, and Linda, saved her life by popping up just at the right time. Actually the brilliant Peter didn't come across that smart at all in the movie with all his experiments falling flat on their faces. All of Peter's victims from mine inspector George Beale, Andy Alston, to the local town undertaker old man Morton, Gerald Lawson, to the before-mentioned hobo Tregaye didn't produce the results that he hoped for. In the end Peter ended up being the victim of one of his experiments that went very wrong for him but just right for the town and people of Port Carron. That experiment finally put and end to his insane actions once in for all.

Dr. Peter Blood (Kieron Moore) shows up in a small Cornish village to move in with his father (Ian Hunter) to carry on with the old man's experiments. Maddened by his ambition and arrogance, Peter paralyzes unwilling victims with curare (African arrow poison) until their still-beating hearts can be removed and transplanted into other bodies. Will his new widowed nurse girlfriend Linda Parker (Hazel Court, as always, a strong female lead) catch on before it's too late? Saddled with a very implausible plot and pretty minor compared to some concurrent Corman and Hammer films, this still has good acting, nice location filming, atmosphere and a decent surprise ending.