Doctor Blood's Coffin (1961)

After being kicked out of medical school for unethical experiments, a young doctor (Kieron Moore) returns to the small Cornwall village of his youth to help his doctor father (Ian Hunter) out. But that doesn't mean he's stopping those horrid experiments. Written by Nathan Juran (7TH VOYAGE OF SINBAD) and directed by Sidney J. Furie (THE IPCRESS FILE), this is yet another riff on Mary Shelley's FRANKENSTEIN with a touch of THE MONKEY'S PAW thrown in. The film delivers very few thrills with only one moment of genuine horror. In fact, it plays out more like a murder mystery although we know from the beginning who is responsible for a series of deaths. Stephen Dade (ZULU) does a nice job of rendering the Cornwall seaside and its caves in vivid Eastman color and the score is provided by Buxton Orr (SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER). Die hard horror fans should find much to enjoy here. With lovely Hazel Court exercising her "scream Queen" lungs and Kenneth J. Warren.