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Dr Meierschultz (Horace B.Carpenter) is a quite mad scientist, inasmuch
as he wants to bring corpses back to life, and he orders his assistant
Maxwell (William Woods) to supply him with a steady flow of corpses ...
but when Maxwell proves to be not man enough for the job, Meierschultz
decides to make Maxwell himself his next corpse instead ... however,
before he can do that, Maxwell shoots him - in self-defense more than
anything else. But then he figures if Meierschultz is dead, somebody might
soon be missing him ... but if Maxwell is dead, nobody would miss him at
all. So Maxwell, a former vaudeville impersonator, dresses himself up as
Maxwell, and tries to continue his experiments as well as to treat his
patients - even if he gives his first patient, Buckley (Ted Edwards) - a
madman who thinks he's the orangutan from Murders in the Rue Morgue
- a shot that immediately turns him into a raging maniac who before long
rapes and kills a girl. Interestingly enough, Buckley's Missus (Phyllis
Diller) doesn't mind about that too much and rather than caring about her
hubby she thinks about ways to blackmail Meierschultz/Maxwell.
Eventually, Maxwell's conscience catches up with him, and he wants to
revive Meierschultz - with a heart Meierschultz has already prepared for
his next stiff. But the black laboratory cat has devoured the eye, so
Maxwell gouges out one of the cat's eyes and eats it. Then he walls up
Meierschultz' body, but accidently walls the black cat up with him.
In the meantime, Maxwell's estranged wife Alice (Thea Ramsey) has
learned that he has inherited a large fortune - and suddenly wants to get
back to him. Maxwell decides to play Alice and Mrs Buckley against each
other and locks them in in his cellar, each of them armed with a deadly
hypodermic. And just like he planned it, the women immediately get into a
catfight. But while he is still laughing maniacally, the police arrive at
Maxwell's doorstep, looking for him but not recognizing him because he
still impersonates Meierschultz. Then they find the two women still
engaged in an all-out fight, which makes them question the Doctor's sanity
... but then they hear a cat's cry from behind the wall, exactly the wall
Maxwell has hidden Meierschultz' body behind ...
This is one film that makes you gasp in disbelief - repeatedly.
The story constantly veers off into different directions, the dialogue
and especially several monologues are nothing short of hysterical, the
actors and actressees are so uniformly bad (and hammy) it's a fun to
watch, the direction always goes for sex and grossness in a manner one has
not coe to expect from a film from the mid-1930's, then there are these
excerpts from the silent films Witchcraft through the Ages and Maciste
in Hell that are (unsucessfully) used to symbolize madness - and then
there are these many titlecards that always try to explain the different
states of madness, but have nothing to do whatsoever with the on-screen
goings-on.
In all, the film is a total mess - but a totally enjoyable one of all
bad movie lovers ...
Recommedned.
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