John Carradine stars as the determined doctor who will stop at nothing to find the secret to immortality. He runs a hospital where he experiments on people resulting in mutant zombies who live without feeling. Tor Johnson lumbers around as Carradine’s servant, the result of one of the experiements. Myron Healy tries to stop his fiendish deeds in this effective shocker. The film is interesting as it came just before Hammer studios and yet while in black and white it is perhaps one of the first films to have gore make-up. John Carradine seems similar in to Peter Cushing's Dr Frankenstein. The resulting monsters are quite shocking for the time and the make-up is not allowed to look silly. The ending has a genuine shock as the patients and zombies rise up against the doctor, this gives little away as they always do in such films. The film is enjoyable and feels as though it belongs more to the 1940s than the late 50s. While strictly an old fashioned B-movie, it does deliver and Carradine can always be relied upon for the fanatical scientist type roles. 7/10.
Special Thanks to Mark Coyle for this Movie Review.