Atom Age Vampire...1960...105 minutes...unrated...starring Alberto Lupo, Susanne Loret, Sergio Fantoni, and Franca Parisi...written by Piero Monviso...directed by Anton Giulio Majano.
It's not a good day to be a stripper in Italy. Jeanette has been disfigured in a car accident, and has been brought to Professor Albert Levin for a cure by his love-bound assistant Monique Riviere. The cure involves injections with certain glands plus the mysterious Serum 28 and is effective...temporarily. Our doctor, of course, has become quite infatuated with Jeanette and is determined to make this cure permanent...even if it means injecting himkself with an earlier form of the cure (Serum 25), becoming a monster every so often, and killing other women to do it. Too bad Jeanette still has the hots for her boyfriend...who is hot on her trail.
You got to love those nutty Italians, who've shown that with enough time and effort, they can make a B-movie horror flick as bad as some of the ones we've put out here. The plot is...well...all over the place, the acting seems off even knowing that it's been translated into English, and the doctor's transformation is both odd and rather unnecessary to the film's overall story. Somehow, the doctor is supposed to be a vampire for the atomic age...but "I want to extract your neck glands" just isn't as terrifying. Besides, apparently a big dog can keep the mad doctor away...even if he's in his monstrous form.
This film isn't one that you'll feel bad missing. I won't scold you for not seeing it, even under the pretense that watching this movie will build up your horror movie "vocabulary". Bad in any language is still bad, and this one's not bad enough to be good...although it has a certain hokey fun to it.
I'll give this one 1.5 pairs of gardening shears out of 5.
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