Monday, April 6, 2015

The Body Shop (1973)

aka Dr. Gore

How bad is it? It's got moments of surreal badness.
Should you see it? Yes, especially if you like H.G. Lewis films.

This stars and was directed by a frequent collaborator of gore-meister H.G. Lewis. A mad scientist tries to recreate the wife he loses in an accident with his hunchback assistant, by piecing together other women. The camera work and acting are quite poor - the main actress was overdubbed, apparently because she couldn't deliver her lines intelligibly. There's a surgery sequence that involves aluminum foil and duct tape and in the final sequence one can see the slate clap-board. The film appears to have been unfinished and the ending is cobbled together, without explaining how the doctor ends up in jail.

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