Although titled and credited to give the impression of being a horror film, this is actually a thriller with Basil Rathbone as a murderous psychiatrist who kills his wives. He has a creepy sidekick, Martin Kosleck who doesn't seem to have much to do but later covers up the doctor's tracks. Rathbone eventually falls in love with suicidal beauty but by then his past is catching up with him. While similar to rathbone's earlier LOVE FROM A STRANGER this film has none of the frenzied pace and story twists of the 1937 film. This film is fairly average in all respects and seems far too long at one and a half hours. Ralph Morgan who was also in other low budger horror appears and in the end the unrequited love of an admirer saves the day as always. There are a few effective scenes with Rathbone putting his patient in trance and the attempted suicide of the lead female, Ellen Drew. However the film is fairly slow and predictable and while Rathbone is always excellent, here is is subdued and not given the material with which to bring his uniquely crazed sophistication. 6/10.
Special Thanks to Mark Coyle for this Movie Review.