Solemplex To me, this movie is perfection.

SeeQuant Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction

KnotStronger This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

Teddie Blake The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

alexanderdavies-99382 "Warner Bros" proved they could certainly deliver the goods when it came to horror films - "Dr. X" and "Mystery of the Wax Museum" are easily on a par with the best of "Universal" horror films.Based upon a popular play, "Dr. X" is about a series of so-called "Moonlight" killings. The police are baffled but they still suspect a group of scientists who indulge in rather unusual, secretive research and experiments.Lionel Atwill - in his first major film after years as a theatre actor - turns in a fine performance as the scientist who oversees the said research. Lee Tracy as the customary wise- cracking journalist is good and better than I expected. Fay Wray does her usual but adds a good deal to the proceedings. Some of the films content is quite graphic for 1930s audiences and I wouldn't be surprised if the film ran into censorship trouble upon its general release in 1932.The direction by Michael Curtiz is both assured and imaginative. He gives the film an expressionistic feel in the way of shadows and arched camera angles.A classic of its kind and it is worthy of repeated viewings.

Leofwine_draca DOCTOR X is a hugely enjoyable murder mystery-cum-horror film, with much talent involved in the proceedings. The actors are all on top form, with Atwill (MYSTERY OF THE WAX MUSEUM) giving a super-duper performance as a distinguished yet slightly mad doctor, while all of the suspects are slightly weird and fun to watch, especially the banter between them.Typically with these sort of films, there's a wisecracking journalist involved in the proceedings, whose repeated use of a hand buzzer soon becomes tiring and makes one wish he would just buzz off. Fay Wray (KING KONG) is adept at screaming, while Otto the butler is a dead ringer for Lugosi and gives a sinister role. There are some familiar scenes in the film, such as the blood pressure test, which was used later in THE THING, and the mock play scene even recalls a similar event in HAMLET, where the young Dane tries to reveal the guilt of the king by re-enacting a murder.Along with this are some nice touches, both comedic and spooky (such as the discovery of a skull and crossbones taking shapes in the leaves at the bottom of a cup), but the standout is the main special effect of the 'synthetic flesh' which is truly memorable and earned a credit for the effects, for the first time in a film ever. Although we've seen a lot of effects like it previously, it's still slightly creepy if a bit rubbery. DOCTOR X is a classic horror romp with comic and thriller elements, and it's never boring. Watch it if you dare!

GL84 After a rash of murders in New York, a reporter's quest for the truth leads to the seaside mansion of a famed scientist are conducting a series of illegal experiments on the nature of evil, forcing him and his still-alive captors to stop their experiments before he can finish.This here was a pitiful and absolutely wretched effort. What makes this one so terrible is the fact that there's just no possible way the story to this one can mean anything when the large portion of what's going on here tends to fall into the rather ridiculous and lame comedy that's supposed to be down-right hilarious but truly isn't. Not only is the lead's constant bungling around his clothes for different objects at a given time or his thousand-words-a-minute smooth-talking to get out of sticky situations unbearably unfunny, but the film has the gall to believe that not just one or two but three separate scenes of him being trapped in a room with skeletons that manipulate themselves on their own are gut-busting hilarious enough to warrant that many repeat returns to that gag that this is a great example of the purposeful horror/comedy that's not funny. That each of these scenes last as long as they do not only makes this one a staggering chore to get into in the first half but also drowns out the horror to a bare minimum in these parts which is really only in the fact that the rampage is on-going and we get detailed explanations of the victims' remains in such a state that the technical jargon for these sequences is almost as bad as the boredom from the supposed laughs to come along. What tends to keep this one remaining as a horror film is the films' final half which is where this one really gets going with some admittedly decent and suspenseful times in their experiment chamber where the different attempts to provide the search for their mission manages to get pretty enjoyable by holding out the killer's identity quite well here in the first sequence as the chaos makes it quite chilling, while the second attempt is even better with the identity switch putting the killer with her while the others are helpless to watch culminating in a great brawl that ends this on a high note. Still, the massive flaws with this one really hold it down the most.Today's Rating/PG: Violence.

LeonLouisRicci There are Many Enjoyable Elements Incorporated in this Early Talkie/Technicolor Horror Movie. It is Directed with Flair and Style from One of Hollywood's Elite, Michael Curtiz and Shot in a Two-Strip Color Process that was Rare at the Time. It has Horror Icon's Lionel Atwill and Fay Wray. The Exciting Climax Lovingly Displays some Fantastic Horror Makeup and is Filmed in Eerie Closeups and is Quite Impressive. The Sets are Mad-Lab Expressionistic and there is Pre-Code Nastiness and Lurid Inclusions.The Movie is Visually Stunning at Times and is Always Interesting, Using Pulp Magazine Style Art Representations that were Popular at the Time with Bondage and Women in Peril Themes. The Horror Elements may seem Dated but are Still Chilling in a Retro Kind of Way. Fay Wray is a Beauty and is Exploited in a Beach Scene right up to a Money Shot. Lionel Atwill and His Board of Scientists are Creepy and Eccentric with Physical and Mental Scars that are, Again, Pulp Inspired. The Pre-Code Stuff Includes a Whore-House, Cannibalism, a Drug Addict and More. This is a Great Example of Uncensored Hollywood and is Only Brought Down Today by a Heavy Dose of Slapstick Humor and Stilted Love Interest with the Never Appealing Lee Tracy (although He has His Fans).