BroadcastChic Excellent, a Must See

Aedonerre I gave this film a 9 out of 10, because it was exactly what I expected it to be.

Sameer Callahan It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

Arianna Moses Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

Edgar Soberon Torchia A bad movie and a mediocre one coexist under the same title: first, a bland story of a horny French journalist turned tourist promoter, courting a blank Spanish girl, who falls prey of a sadistic bitch; and second, a horror tale involving a blind sculptor and his crazy wife, who kills animals and people with her lover's assistance to provide real bone structures for her husband's 3-D evocations of famous paintings. Characters go back and forth from A to B for 97 endless minutes. Pity is that both Lindfords and Karloff try hard to make any sense of the whole affair. Not a bad idea, but poorly executed, with dreadful music and silly special effects and nightmares. Be warned.

InjunNose "Cauldron of Blood" (aka "Blind Man's Bluff") is a badly-made crime thriller that wastes poor, ailing Boris Karloff and doesn't really succeed in any other respect, either. Karloff portrays a famous sculptor who was blinded and partially crippled in a car accident years before. Sadly, there wasn't much acting involved in this role; the beloved British actor was seriously ill and it showed. As his snarling wife, Viveca Lindfors steals the show. Unbeknownst to Karloff, who thinks she's merely robbing graves, Lindfors (along with her thuggish lover) is actually murdering young women and giving their skeletons to Karloff, who uses them as armatures for his sculptures. If this doesn't sound like a very frightening or suspenseful premise, that's because it isn't. You're never shocked or scared or inclined to sit on the edge of your seat while watching "Cauldron of Blood", though it might be of some interest if you like watching weird, rude Europeans who begin every other sentence with the words "Between you and me..." As far as I'm concerned, the only intriguing elements of the film were Lindfors' creepy, leering lesbianism (and Nazi bondage nightmares), the animated title sequence, and the picturesque Spanish shooting locations. Even Karloff completists will be asking themselves why they bothered to see this one.

HumanoidOfFlesh Legendary Boris Karloff is completely wasted in this mind-numbingly boring piece of trash.At the end of his life,seriously ill he plays the blind and crippled Charles Badulescu,a famous sculptor.He works on his final magnum opus completely unaware that the bones he has been using are the remains of the victims of his murderous wife."Cauldron of Blood" is a chore to sit through.The acting is painfully bad,the suspense is non-existent and the editing is awful.The film is terribly boring and filled with tons of uninteresting talking.The only reason to watch this utterly worthless bore is Karloff,but even his classy performance can't save it.Avoid this one like the plague-you'll thank me later.1 out of 10.

David Edward Martin Watching the film on videotape, I got to wondering about the incredibly meandering plot and how many of the characters don't really have anything to do with each other. Then it hit me-- this flick was assembled over a period of years! The original movie centered on Karloff but his ill health left that section far too short. Over the next couple years, it looks like the producers added to the flick whenever there was cast and money available. And of course as movies got more explicit, they added more scenes to make this stew commercially viable (like the lesbian model scene).