THE UNEARTHLY John Carradine! Allison Hayes! Tor Johnson! Free online

‘Lured! – to the house of monsters… no escape from’
The Unearthly is a 1957 sci-fi horror film about a mad doctor who uses patients at his isolated psychiatric institute as subjects in his attempts to create longevity by surgically installing an artificial gland in their skulls, with disastrous results.

Produced and directed by Boris Petroff [as Brooke L. Peters] (Anatomy of a Psycho) from a screenplay co-written by Jane Mann and John D.F. Black, with characters originally created by infamous Edward D. Wood Jr. (director of Plan 9 from Outer Space; Night of the Ghouls; Bride of the Monster; Glen or Glenda; et al).

The AB-PT Pictures production stars horror icon John Carradine, Allison Hayes, Myron Healy, Sally Todd, Marilyn Buferd and Tor Johnson.

The soundtrack score was composed by Henry Vars (House of the Damned; Womanhunt; The Leech Woman; Love Slaves of the Amazons). Carradine’s character also plays Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D minor.

Plot:
At his psychiatric institute, Doctor Charles Conway (John Carradine) is experimenting with artificial glands to try to create longevity but instead, he creates hideous mutants. Along with his henchman Lobo (Tor Johnson), Doctor Conway sets his sights on an undercover cop determined to end his parade of monsters and madness…

“Tor Johnson is even given a few dialogue lines, but he’s not all that interesting, and neither are the ‘shocking’ makeups of Dr Conway’s victims. Sally Todd’s pasty wrinkles look exactly like what they are, something applied to her face in a big hurry. The bunch of overweight, hairy monsters left behind in his basement would be more appropriate if Conway were trying to create cavemen, not immortals.” DVD Talk

Cast and characters:
John Carradine … Doctor Charles Conway
Myron Healey … Mark Houston (as Myron Healy)
Allison Hayes … Grace Thomas
Marilyn Buferd … Doctor Sharon Gilchrist (as Marylyn Buferd)
Arthur Batanides … Danny Green
Sally Todd … Natalie Andries
Tor Johnson … Lobo II
Roy Gordon … Doctor Loren Wright
Guy Prescott … Police Captain George Reagan
Raymond Guth … Police Officer Miller (as Raymond Guta)
Harry Fleer … Harry Jedrow
Gloria Petroff … Screaming Woman
Paul McWilliams … Police Officer Ed
Karl Johnson … Monster in Basement

Filming locations:
Quality Studios, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California

Technical details:
73 minutes
Black and white
Aspect ratio: 1.85: 1
Audio: Mono (Westrex Recording System)

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