The Awful Dr. Orloff (1962)

Original title

Gritos en la noche

Directed by

Jesús Franco

Genre

horror film, thriller film

Country

France, Spain

Runtime

1h 30m

Rating

5.9 of 10 from 46 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A mad surgeon kidnaps young women to steal their skin for grafting onto his disfigured daughter's face. His blind henchman helps him carry out the abductions in this 1960s Spanish-French horror film.

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What happens

The Awful Dr. Orloff (Spanish: Gritos en la noche, lit. 'Screams in the Night'; French: L'Horrible Docteur Orloff) is a 1962 horror film written and directed by Jesús Franco. It stars Howard Vernon as the mad Dr. Orloff (sometimes spelled Orlof) who wants to repair his disfigured daughter's face with skin grafts from other women with the aid of a slavish, blind henchman named Morpho. A co-production between Spain and France, filmed in Madrid, the film is considered to be the earliest Spanish horror film. The Awful Dr. Orloff was the first horror film directed by cult filmmaker Franco, and the first of many subsequent collaborations with Howard Vernon. Franco would reuse the Orloff and Morpho characters in many of his later horror films, such as Vampyros Lesbos, Revenge in the House of Usher, and Faceless. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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