In this goofy mad scientist movie Bela Lugosi has inadvertently transformed himself into an ape-man. He has a weird beard encircling his face and walks hunched over. He can also make ape-noises. He tries to convince a colleague to help him become fully human again-but the only way to do this is to take the spinal fluid from a live human, which he says will kill the donor. Maybe in the 1950's a spinal tap would kill someone-I've had two and it never killed me.When we first see Lugosi he's sleeping in a cage with a gorilla. Later, he takes his gorilla companion and starts killing people. As in THE APE, rather than beat his arms down on someone, this gorilla strangles people. There's also a side story about a newspaper reporter and his new woman partner, which is very 1940'ish and does little to liven the plot.
In this goofy mad scientist movie Bela Lugosi has inadvertently transformed himself into an ape-man. He has a weird beard encircling his face and walks hunched over. He can also make ape-noises. He tries to convince a colleague to help him become fully human again-but the only way to do this is to take the spinal fluid from a live human, which he says will kill the donor. Maybe in the 1950's a spinal tap would kill someone-I've had two and it never killed me.When we first see Lugosi he's sleeping in a cage with a gorilla. Later, he takes his gorilla companion and starts killing people. As in THE APE, rather than beat his arms down on someone, this gorilla strangles people. There's also a side story about a newspaper reporter and his new woman partner, which is very 1940'ish and does little to liven the plot.
