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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
01
Why this pick
A richly melodramatic Victorian horror about an unethical doctor and clandestine operations, sharing the original’s old-world laboratory dread, compromised medical ethics, and lurid Gothic atmosphere.
02
Why this pick
Its Parisian setting, feverish surgery-centered plot, and grave romantic fatalism make it a strong companion to Fisher’s elegant, morally poisoned medical Gothic.
03
Why this pick
A poised, visually exquisite French nightmare of illicit surgery and obsessive preservation, with the same cool, tragic seriousness beneath its horror premise.
04
Why this pick
For another tightly wound British horror steeped in antique objects, refined period interiors, and a protagonist pulled toward damnation by an irresistible obsession.
05
Why this pick
Its revenge plot is far more flamboyant, but Vincent Price’s immaculate period villainy, elaborate medical horrors, and macabre visual design echo the appeal of decadent Gothic cruelty.
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01 / THE STORY
In Paris during 1890, 104-year-old Georges Bonnet (Diffring) is a sculptor who maintains a youthful appearance by regularly committing murder and using his victims’ parathyroid glands as an elixir to ward off the signs of age. When Bonnet requires a vital surgery to be undertaken he asks his old colleague Prof. Ludwig Weiss (Arnold Marlé) to perform it. He declines and Bonnet then blackmails Pierre Gerard (Lee) into performing the operation by endangering the life of Janine Dubois (Hazel Court), a young lady in whom both Bonnet and Gerard are romantically interested.
02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Dr. Georges Bonner
Janine Dubois
Margo Phillipe
Little Man
Tavern Customer
Woman at Private View
Man at Private View
Dr. Pierre Gerard
