Karry Best movie of this year hands down!

Tetrady not as good as all the hype

Melanie Bouvet The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

Mandeep Tyson The acting in this movie is really good.

mark.waltz As colorless as Humphrey Bogart's skin in this D grade Warner Brothers' horror film. this has as much connection to the 1932 science fiction classic "Doctor X" as the Universal series of 1940's mummy films had in common with with the 1932 Karloff classic. There is a slight connection, but it is completely unbelievable. Good scientist/doctor Dennis Morgan must discover why nearly bloodless corpses of the same blood type keep turning up and why one alleged victim turns up alive, only to die for real out of the blue. This brings him and detective Wayne Morris to blood specialist John Litel who has some answers, some of which make this preposterous film more convoluted and hardly suspenseful, especially when they meet Litel's seemingly anemic assistant (Bogart), made up to resemble Karloff in 1934's "The Black Cat". Bogart has never looked so embarrassed on screen, and with good reason. After all, what movie star can say that they were made up to look like both Karloff AND Pepe le Peu in the same film? If Hollywood ever starts a wax museum of the most bizarre looking people on screen, Bogart's character here should be the first created!

snicewanger This film is without a doubt the most frightening vampire movie that Humphrey Bogart ever made. Bogie is much more of a gangster then a vampire mad scientist in this opus. Supposedly given to Bogart because he had complained about the choice of roles he was being given, he plays it as though he were being punished. Intended for Karloff as a follow up to "The Walking Dead" Dr X was put in production with Vincent Sherman directing. It was Sherman's first directorial effort. Wayne Morris leads a cast of dependable Warner's regular's such as John Litel and Dennis Morgan. Beautiful Lya Lys has a memorable role as one of the vampire's victims, and Rosemary Lane is the film's scream queen.It's obvious that Dr X went through some heavy editing and retakes. Several actors credited don't appear in the final cut . Several have character name changes and there are scenes in the trailer that don't appear in the film.1939 was a golden year for Hollywood but certainly not for Bogart. Swing Your Lady ,Men are Such Fools ,The Oklahoma Kid and Return of Doctor X are the four least favorite films of Bogart and they were made in that 1938-39 periodReturn of Doctor X is not a horrible film but it's not a horror film either.It's a curio that Bogart fans should see at least one time.

Edgar Allan Pooh . . . in the context of Sam Spade's office or Rick's American Cafe, but it matches Bogie's pasty face and the white shoe polish in his hair for this spoof of FRANKENSTEIN, 1939's THE RETURN OF DOCTOR X. Warner Bros. bravely asks the question, "Why go to all the trouble to winch up an overloaded gurney through a lightning rod-covered castle turret, when the government will electrocute your prospective monster for you, free of charge?" Dr. Francis Flegg feels great sympathy toward Bogart's "Dr. X," who runs afoul of the law simply because his research involves starving random Under Class kids to death at an isolated duck hunters' clubhouse. After all, it's not as if Dr. X murdered the Lindbergh Baby. But since Bogart never was as cute as Casey Anthony, he gets fried. Dr. Flegg revives this monster with "synthetic blood," ignoring the fact that the first syllable of his concoction sounds a lot like "sin." Naturally, Flegg-Enstein's Monster tries to do in his Creator (perhaps because of the Mark of Cain in his hair, which looks just as bad when you spell Cain "Q-U-E-S-N-E"). After viewing 1930s Hollywood flicks such as THE RETURN OF DOCTOR X, it's not hard to see where the Nazi "research doctors" came up with most of their Weird Science ideas.

AaronCapenBanner Vincent Sherman directed this in-name-only sequel to "Doctor X", then played by Lionel Atwill, now played by...well, let's just say there are two doctors here. The first, played by John Litel, is researching a synthetic blood that could potentially save lives, the other is his assistant, played by Humphry Bogart(who notoriously hated this film!) who is creepy, with white-streaked hair and pale face. Newspaper reporter Walter Burnett(played by Wayne Morris) is investigating a series of murders where the victims were drained of blood...Could either of the doctors be responsible, or could it be someone/something else? Ridiculous and pointless film is worthy of the disdain shown to it by Bogart, though he is still easily the best thing about it!