ReaderKenka Let's be realistic.

Stevecorp Don't listen to the negative reviews

Lightdeossk Captivating movie !

AnhartLinkin This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

trimbolicelia Not bad mid-40's black-and-white thriller. A mental patient, thought to be dead comes back from wherever, after having some weird procedure performed on him that keeps him alive as long as he consumes continuous amounts of blood. When he can't make a withdrawal at a blood bank, no problem, he just kills someone, drains them, and embalms them. Why the embalming I don't know. Ian Keith as the blood consumer is certainly creepy. Near the beginning of the film a local tower clock bongs incessantly and gives a gloomy air. A young doctor and his nurse girlfriend give some light-hearted moments. The film is under one hour so the story moves right along. I obtained a DVD-R and though the quality is not the greatest it is watchable. I wish a re-mastered version would be released very soon. I recommend this film, a nice time passer on a Saturday afternoon.

kapelusznik18 ***SPOILERS*** One of the last of the Zombie crazed 1940's Zombie movies has former undertaker and later insane lunatic Ormand Murks,Ian Keith, come back from the dead as a combination Zombie/Vampire who craves blood, his blood type and no one else's,to stay alive. This has Murks raid hospital blood banks and with the help of his almost Zombie like brother Fred, Earle Hodgins, get him the blood that he so desperately needs. It's when Murks turns to murder in murdering the man in charge of the hospital blood bank Dr. Rufus Maynard, Charles Trowbridge, who was about to report him to the police that Fred in not wanting to be implicated in Dr. Maynard's murder called it quits only to end up being murdered, and sucked dry of his blood, by an outraged and deranged Murks.To keep the story going and prevent the audience from falling asleep we have some comedy relief in the persons of Dr. Terry Evens, Robert Livingston, and his afraid of her own shadow nurse Susan Drake, Lorna Gray, who turn detectives in solving the string of murders blood draining and embalming victims that the crazed Ormand Murks is responsible for. There's also for good measures the Keystone Kop like police lead by the clueless Chief Inspector Rayan, Charles Cane, and his two bumbling assistants detectives Blake & Hendricks, Thomas E. Jackson & Leroy Mason, who make both Terry & Susan's job of tracking down and finding Murks that much more difficult.***SPOILERS*** Despite what seemed like him having supernatural powers Murks wasn't bullet proof which proved to be his Achilles Heel that in the end did the crazy guy in. That's after he captured and hypnotized Susan and forced her to kill Terry who was on his way, together with the police, to capturing and bringing him in. Being as mindless as he was crazy Murks, who was armed with a handgun, ordered Susan to shoot Terry who by hesitating for just a moment gave to police all the time that they needed to plug him themselves.

tl12 OK, I admit it. I love 30's and 40's B horror films. They generally have great atmosphere and wonderful characters. Are both the atmosphere and the characters over-the-top? Yeah, most of the time, but that is part of the charm. You don't watch these movies looking for great cinema. You watch them for the perpetually foggy streets. What city or what country makes no difference, 9 times out of 10 there will be fog. You watch them for the crazed characters. You watch them for the dripping-with-venom dialog. You also have the wonderful look that black and white creates. Things are stark and heavily shadowed.You watch these films simply because you love the time and the genre. Not for great writing and most times not for great performances. You either love these period B films or not. Had I lived during the era you would have never gotten me out of the theater.

Space_Mafune If you approach this looking for zombies, especially an whole valley full of 'em, you'll be sadly disappointed yet I can't help it...I like this short little movie just the same. Maybe it's the wonderful atmosphere this film has what with mysterious going ons in the night, graveyards and tombs figuring into the plot. Or maybe it's the old fashioned villain who truly looks like a fiendish fellow...Ian Keith as the thought to be dead Ormond Murks, who now needs the blood of the living to stay alive. And while there may be a number of outdated stereotypes (by today's standards) at work here especially in terms of the frantic female Nurse Susan Drake who is easily spooked and frightened leaning upon the always steady and sure male Dr. Terrance Evans..still there's a certain innocence to this style of Horror which makes it fun...kind of hard to explain really. It's only being an hour long doesn't hurt either.