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Monday, October 15, 2012

31 DAYS OF HALLOWEEN DAY 15: THE APE 1940 (GENIUS)

Boris Karloff is Dr. Bernard Adrian, who is trying to cure a young woman's polio, but finds he needs human spinal fluid to do this.

An ape escapes from the circus and Adrian kills it, skins it and wears the costume to disguise that fact the he is murdering people to obtain the aforementioned serum.

This isn't so much a horror film as it is a mystery and Karloff is very good as usual. I have no problem with the film itself, but Genius should be ashamed for the condition of this print. This was part of the AMC Monsterfest Collection, and you would think they would have a good print, but instead it is very, very splicy with entire scenes missing. All in all you might enjoy the movie, but buyer beware of this print.

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