Atom Age Vampire

1963 "You'll gasp with Horror..."
3.9| 1h47m| NR| en
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When a singer is horribly disfigured in a car accident, a scientist develops a treatment which can restore her beauty by injecting her with a special serum. While performing the procedure, however, he falls in love with her. As the treatment begins to fail, he determines to save her appearance, regardless of how many women he must kill for her sake.

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Perry Kate Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!
Protraph Lack of good storyline.
Donald Seymour This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.
Skyler Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.
Michael Ledo Pierre (Sergio Fantoni) is a Navy Lieutenant by his bars, a Chief Petty Officer by his collar insignia. He breaks up with his stripper girlfriend Jeanette (Susanne Loret) who immediately explodes her car going down an embankment. WOW! Do sailors really date strippers?She is in a hospital with a slightly disfigured face, one that skin grafts could cure, or her long hair could cover...which it does for most of the movie. She believes her face will always be this way as she contemplates suicide with the gun she is packing in her purse while smoking cigarettes in her hospital room. My how things have changed.Never fear, a woman with stereotypical sunglasses and a trench coat (Franca Parisi) shows up and offers her help through Professor Alberto Levin (Alberto Lupo) who has a machine that goes ping, an oscilloscope, a centrifuge, and a "radiation chamber" that could be an early microwave oven. His new product Derma 28 he wants to use on a human guinea pig, hence the stripper with the deformed face, one that he instantly falls in love with to the dismay of his assistant.The professor uses the substance and it turns him into more of a hideous Mr. Hyde, than a vampire. I think "Atom Age Mr. Hyde at Times" wouldn't sell as well as the vampire thing. They could of at least gave him a long teeth. The make-up was pretty bad. It must have been stuff left over from our Lend-Lease program.Not much in character build-up. Acting and script were pretty sad. Might have some film history interest as a vampire film worse than anything with Kristen Stewart in it. Just kidding Kristen, I really did like how you played a dead chick in that Snow White thing you otherwise ruined.
Hollywoodshack I tuned in thinking this was a film from Mario Bava, but it was really produced by Mario Fava! The mad scientist doesn't do anything a vampire does, he just periodically turns into a monster to murder several women and extract a cure from their glands for burn scars. He finally plans to murder his own patient who doesn't love him, turning into several different monsters, but it was supposed to be different stages of the same monster. Time drags by while he repeats his obsession with finding a cure and possessing control over the scarred stripper to prevent the marks from coming back on her face. Echoes repeat dialogue in thoughts out loud. Dubbing is terrible and parts have probably been cut for TV, probably the better ones.
BA_Harrison There are no vampires in this cheapo Italian B-movie, atom age or otherwise. Instead, we get an obsessed scientist, Professor Alberto Levin (Alberto Lupo), who turns himself into a hideous monster in order to kill women for the gland needed to restore the looks of once-beautiful blonde stripper Jeanette Moreneau (Susanne Loret), whose face was horribly disfigured in a terrible automobile accident.Clearly influenced by French horror classic Les Yeux Sans Visage (1960) and Dr. Jeckyll and Mr Hyde, the plot for Atom Age Vampire is uninspired drivel, which might not be such a problem had the film been brilliantly paced, incredibly sleazy, wonderfully acted, or directed with flair, or if there had simply been some decent special effects to enjoy. But there aren't.Anton Giulio Majano's direction is flat, the movie seriously drags its heels with far too much talk and not enough action (I watched the heavily cut 86 minute edit—God only knows how dull the fully uncut version is), the cast are wooden, Loret offers a glimpse of cleavage, but that's all, and the transformation effects are of the crap time-lapse kind used several decades earlier to turn Lon Chaney Jr. into a wolf-man.For a really fun film that explores very similar territory, check out Corruption (1968)—it's everything that Atom Age Vampire should have been.
oscar-35 *Spoiler/plot- 1960, Atom Age Vampire, A WW2 nuclear medicine researcher studying cell repairs finds a cure to disfiguring scars. He treats and falls in love with his beautiful blond stripper car crash patient. The doctor starts killing his female lab assistant and any woman in his neighborhood to keep making the cure to supply to his blond patient.*Special Stars- Alberto Lupo leads.*Theme- Science combats nature, sometimes loses.*Based on- Frankenstein and Dr Jeckle & Mr Hyde *Trivia/location/goofs- An Italian Production meant to be French.*Emotion- A strange composite of two legendary horror themes but enjoyable. The film seems to go on a little too long with bad pacing.