Thursday, December 3, 2009

Another cancer cure
worse than the disease....

Atom Age Vampire (1960) 
Starring: Alberto Lupo and Susan Loret 
Director: Anton Giulio Majano 
Rating: Three of Ten Stars 

 Professor Levin (Lupo) has developes a cure for cancer that also regenerates cells to remove scar tissue. Unfortunately, the effect is short-term, and he has not yet found a way to quickly make more of his wonder drug. So, in order to keep a one-time horribly disfigured ex-dancer (Loret) whom he helped from reverting to her former state, he drinks another of his inventions and turns into a hideous, super-strong killer and runs around ripping glands out of young women and implanting them in the stripper as a stop-gap measure.

 
I'm not sure where the vampires enter into "Atom Age Vampire" as this weak Italian mad scientist movie is more of a "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" tale... just it's Dr. Hyde and Mr. Hyde, as Levin is a pretty repulsive character even before he starts downing the Mad Science Potion. 

 This movie is a nice addition to a Bad Movie Night line-up, but otherwise isn't really worth your time.

 

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