Seddok, l'erede di Satana (1960)

Director:

Anton Giulio Majano

Writers:

Alberto Bevilacqua (writer)
Gino De Santis (writer)

Release Date:

19 August 1960 (Italy)

Genre:

Horror | Sci-Fi

Tagline:

You'll gasp with Horror . . . a spine-tingling motion picture only the atom age could produce!

Plot:

A stripper is horribly disfigured in a car accident. A brilliant scientist develops a treatment that restores her beauty and falls in love with her...

Plot Keywords:

Disfigurement | Serial Killer | Transformation

Cast

Alberto Lupo	...	Prof. Alberto Levin
Susanne Loret	...	Jeanette Moreneau
Sergio Fantoni	...	Pierre Mornet
Franca Parisi	...	Monique Riviere
Andrea Scotti
Rina Franchetti
Roberto Bertea	...	Sacha
Ivo Garrani
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Glamor Mora
Gianna Piaz		(as Giovanna Piaz)

Also Known As:

Atom Age Vampire (USA) (dubbed version)

Runtime:

105 min | USA:72 min (video version) | USA:69 min (DVD version) | USA:87 min

Country:

Italy

Language:

Italian

Color:

Black and White

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

USA:Unrated

Company:

Leone Film

Movie Connections:

References Doctor X (1932)

Vanishing Cream It Isn't!

A young singer/dancer has a car accident and loses her good looks to several large scars on one side of her face. She is soon visited by a lady with a solution to her facial problem just as she contemplates suicide with a revolver. The lady takes her to a doctor working out of a lab in his basement that has come up with a drug/serum that will make her face all better and supposedly cause the young, beautiful girl to fall in love with him. Nothing real special here at all. The film is very Italian and cheaply-made, but it does have some nice camera work here and there. The acting leads are all hams(prosciutto)and way over the top in terms of believability. The fellow playing the policeman does do a fine job amidst the bacon around him! The film has a somewhat grainy quality and some poorly lit scenes, but atmosphere is created through the lens. Although the serum must have some component from a living-turned-recently-dead woman, the scientific premises used in the film are very big flights of fancy. I laughed quite a bit at the serious turn the film tries to make explaining that the doctor's work sprung from his experiences in Hiroshima/Nagasaki. The lines are uttered with little conviction and carry virtually no plausibility in them. Though a bad movie in many ways, one could do far worse as a means of entertaining oneself on a cold evening.