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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0634991146029
Format: Anamorphic, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Mondo Macabre
Manufacturer: Mondo Macabre
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Mondo Macabre
Release Date: April 29, 2003
Running Time: 84 minutes
Sales Rank: 74082
Studio: Mondo Macabre
Theatrical Release Date: February 15, 1967
Editorial Review:
Description:
Dr. 'Z' creates a mind control machine. Rejected by the medical establishment as mad, he suffers a fatal heart attack. His daughter decides to take revenge on the men who did down her dad. Using his devious device, she brainwashes a sexy go-go dancer and turns her into a deadly killing machine. First she seduces her victims … then she dispatches them with her poison-tipped fingernails.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - FRANCO'S B&W ARTSY CLASSIC!!!
This is one Franco film that has everything going for it. Excellent (CRISP/CLEAR) b&w photography gives a chilling low-key gothic feel to the going's-on, a bizzare mixture of artsy murders and kinky nightclub routines. Dr.Z (Strangelove?) hangs around for only a few minutes and then it's his daughter that revenges his death by brainwashing an exotic dancer to dispatch those who ridiculed Dr.Z. With poisoned tipped finger nails, bodies thrown from trains, slammed through windows, etc...you will ... Read More
Rating:  - It's, like, against society
Great title, decent movie. By experimenting with lab animals, the good doctor believes he has perfected a way of controlling an individual's morality. He tells his cohorts of the scientific community he would like to try this out on humans; not to worry, though, he'll only utilize "expendable" people, such as death row inmates. Three of his fellow doctors ridicule him for such nonsense and apparently this embarrassment is so strong it causes his death. Now his daughter, Irma, plans vengeance against ... Read More
Rating: - Mondo Macabro needs to release more exotic titles
I have never been a huge Franco fan but his earlier work like this is by far his strongest. The best qualities of Franco's films are always atomosphere and this one is on the mark mixing 60s sleaze with themes from 30s style Bela Lugosi serials like Phantom Creeps. My favorite as with all the Mondo Macabro releases is the docu this time about Franco. The only complaint I have is more of a request really. After reading the book Mondo Macabro I was expecting for them to release horror and cult films from ... Read More
Rating: - Possible Franco's best 1960s Gothic
The Diabolical Dr Z is one of director Jess Franco's best 1960s Gothics. The film oozes atmosphere and features some lush black-and-white photography, together with threatening shots of darkened corridors (in a prison, in the doctor's mansion, on a train) which feature prominently in Franco's early work (The Awful Dr Orloff, The Sadistic Baron von Klaus) and in many 1950s/1960s horror movies (for example, Riccardo Freda's The Horrible Dr Hitchcock); psychoanalysts would probably explain these shots by relating ... Read More
Rating: - Franco's masterpiece
Definitely the greatest of Franco's earliest films and one that set his themes and obsessions for his entire career. Fantastic cinematography and great visuals all add up to an essential Euro sex horror movie. Miss death's spider stage show is one of the great scenes of the genre.
Watching this movie it's obvious why even Orson Welles chose Franco for a sidekick!
The DVD looks great, and comes with the subtitled french track as well as the US dub audio. For me, a movie as important, and a lot wilder, ... Read More
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