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Bud Brewster
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J. Carrol Naish plays a demented doctor who becomes obsessed with a pretty pianist (Wanda McKay). She rejects his romantic advances, so he plots a hideous revenge; he injects her father (Ralph Morgan) with acromegaly, causing him to become hideously deformed.
Glenn Strange is Naish's assistant.
Both the basic concept and the way it is presented are so unpleasant that audiences reacted badly to the film, and Naish's career suffered because of it.
Directed by horror/sci-fi veteran Sam Newfield.
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Watch this movie on YouTube and decide for yourself if it deserves its bad reputation. The picture quality is pretty good.
IMDB displays the box art for the DVD rather than the original poster. Nice painting, eh?
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Watch the clip to get a look at the makeup. Pretty good! 
And the trailer below is a recent creation, not the original, but it's extremely well done.
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I've seen this a few times, and never really understood why it got such a bad rap. To me the acting was decent, the plot, though a little flimsy, still worked.
I think the thought that anyone would inflict such a (real) disease/condition upon someone was too horrific for audiences at the time.
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| WadeVC wrote: | | I think the thought that anyone would inflict such a (real) disease/condition upon someone was too horrific for audiences at the time. |
That brings up an interesting point, Wade.
Today's audiences have been desensitized by the increasingly brutal scenes that movies have presented over the years.
Back was I was a school teacher with a class of 5th graders, I played a recording of radio program one Halloween, about a doctor and an ambulance driver who went into an out house and discovered a strange black fog on the floor that had literally turned the residents inside out!
The kids were frightened by it, and that surprised me. I asked them why an old rado program creeped them out, even they had told me about the violdent movies they'd seen.
One young boy explained it perfectly.
"Mr Cook, those movies are just about killin'. But that story was . . . scarier."
Here's it is, courtesy of Youtube.
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WadeVC
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| Bud Brewster wrote: | One young boy explained it perfectly.
"Mr Cook, those movies are just about killin'. But that story was . . . scarier." |
Yeah, today's horror movies are all about gore and buckets of blood. There is very little creativity in the writing. The storylines are all but absent.
I think I have seen maybe a dozen "horror" movies in the past decade. I'm just not a fan of the gore-fest offered up nowdays.
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Oh brother, Wade — are YOU in the right place! _
Here's the way I think of this board.
During last year's Thanksgiving Day parade, the musical group known as Drew Holcomb & The Neighbors were on a float that stopped in front of Macy's and sang this wonderful song to the happy parade watchers.
Find Your People | Drew Holcomb & The Neighbors (Official Music Video)
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I liked the song (and the message it conveyed) so much that for a few months the banner at the top of this board looked looks this — signifying that ASF was the place for people like you and me to connect with like-minded folks.
In other words, Wade — I think you've "found your people". 
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