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Today's Featured Threads are devoted to "anger management" — the importance of controlling violent emotions when faced with frustration.

We present three case studies which illustrate the tragic consequence of allowing our temper to overwhelm our self control.

Patient #1 is Mr. David Bruce, who was a calm and reasonable person until Dr. George Zucco allowed David to sniff a dangerous vapor. Perhaps Mr. Bruce had anger issues, and if that's the case, the vapor certainly cured him. However, it changed him into an obedient grave-robbing ghoul! Shocked

The predictable result was that he lost all his friends and he was permanently removed from everybody's "party guest" list. A sad state of affairs to be sure. Sad

Patient #2 is Peter Lorre, a famous surgeon who isn't mad at anybody — in fact it's just the reverse! He's madly in love, which is ten times worse than plain old anger!

Unfortunately the apple of his eye is growing on somebody else's tree. She's the wife of a concert pianists who looses his hands in an accident. Good old Dr. Lorre comes to his aid by replacing them with the hands from an executed murder.

Gee, what could possibly go wrong, eh? Rolling Eyes

Patient #3 is Glenn Strange, an overalls-wearing farmer that Dr. George Zucco (again) wants tp turn into an obedient werewolf who will become the first recruit in a "werewolf army" that will battle the Nazis!

My goodness, we certainly have to give Dr. Zucco high marks for original thinking. Just imagine the look on the German's faces when they see these guys charging across the battlefield on a night with a full moon!

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The Mad Ghoul (1943)



That's right, George Zucco plays yet another mad you-know-what, a role for which he was born.

In this one he's gleefully sadistic, using his new mind control vapor to turn a good man into a pale, blank-faced automaton who obediently robs graves and pilfers vital organs. David Bruce is the good-guy-turned-slave, and he does more than just walk around stiffly with his arms outstretched — a good performance in an unconventional role.

Evelyn Ankers is the heroine, Bruce's finance', until she falls in love with pianist Turhan Bey. Hot on the trail of Zucco and his mindless minion is a police detective, played by Robert Armstrong ("King Kong"). Armstrong sets a clever trap for the zombie by lying in a coffin and posing as a tempting corpse (ghoul bait!).

Spooky thrills and good imagination bolster this overlooked little gem, one of the better "Zucco the Mad Scientist" films. Directed by James Hogan.
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Mad Love (1935)

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Peter Lorre (in his first American role) plays a brilliant but crazed surgeon who falls hopelessly in love with the wife of a world famous pianist.

When the pianist loses his hands in a train crash, the surgeon replaces them with the hands of an executed murderer, then he plots to convince the pianist that the new hands are turning him into a murderer.

The film is skillfully directed by Karl Freund, with strange dream-like montage sequences that reveal the demented workings of the surgeon's crazed brain.

Colin Clive ("Frankenstein") plays the pianist, and Francis Drake plays his lovely wife. The 1961 remake (entitled "The Hands of Orlac") starred Mel Ferrer and Christopher Lee.

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The Mad Monster (1941)



George Zucco is a mad scientist again! And horror veteran Glenn Strange is a monster again!

This time Zucco has good intentions behind his plan to turn an unwilling subject (a farmer, complete with overalls) into an obedient, controllable werewolf, the first "soldier" in a monster army he can use against the Nazis (imagine the battle scenes).

Strange's makeup is well below par, looking entirely too much like a bearded Beethoven mask with vampire fangs. And the overalls just don't go with the outfit. Directed by Sam Newfield.

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