ALL SCI-FI

[Bud Brewster]

Another strange horror/sci-fi film from Britain.

Kieron Moore ("Crack in the World", "Day of the Triffids", "Satellite in the Sky") plays a demented doctor who returns to his Cornish hometown to set up a laboratory in an abandoned mine and conduct experiments which involve the revival of famous dead people by implanting healthy hearts in their dead bodies (?).

This is definitely not what you'd call "hard science fiction".

The hearts are obtained from murdered hobos whom the doctor abducts locally. Hazel Court ("Devil Girl from Mars" and several notable Hammer films) is a young widow with whom the doctor falls in love.

When she rejects him, the doctor magnanimously revives the lady's dead husband (Paul Stockman), who promptly goes looking for Miss Court. But the year-old corpse only succeeds in terrifying his poor widow.

Directed by Sidney J. Furie.
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)

[Rick]

Couple of things...

(1) This is not a good movie. Not at all. But seeing it, as I did, on its original double-feature, is very kind to it. Because compared with THE SNAKE WOMAN, DR. BLOOD'S COFFIN looks almost respectable.

(2) You have the wrong date listed. This movie is from 1961, not 1967.
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Man need not kneel before the angels,
Nor lie in death forever,
But for the weakness of his feeble will.

[Bud Brewster]