Mansion of the Doomed

After about an hour, I realized in watching this creepy horror film that it was best to continue viewing it as a dark comedy. It's certainly has many moments that made me reluctantly laugh, but I couldn't help it in the most notable melodramatic moments when several of the kidnapped victims of doctor Richard Basehart escape.

A doctor steals peoples eyeballs in order to let his blind daughter see again.Above average B-acting An intersting but simple story Allmost no suspence & gore Just an average tv movie with unused potential to lift it above this.

Here is a film that will make your skin crawl. Richard Basehart plays Dr.

Call it Mansion of the Doomed. Or The Terror of Dr.

This is will scary your out of your mind. This has a great story line.

What we have here is a film that shamelessly rips off the classic French film 'Eyes Without a Face', and does it rather well; despite being nowhere near the earlier effort in terms of quality. Rather than the whole face, director Michael Pataki focuses just on the eyes.

I watched this last night on a twenty plus year old VHS tape I brought of eBay, under it's UK title 'Massacre mansion'. We open with shots of Dr Leonard Chaney (Richard Basehart) walking through a hospital, he goes to a patient and inserts his thumbs into her eye sockets.

I have been wanting to see this movie for a long time as to the plot and reviews of read on how creepy and disturbing this movie was and to see the legendary silver screen siren of Gloria Grahamm (It's a wonderful life, Greatest Show on earth, Oaklahoma!)and was pleased when I found the DVD for $6 and snatched it up.

This movie is pretty gruesome but almost has no gore or blood, instead by using some really gruesome topics (eyeball transplants),a good music score (though rather short and repetitive), and good acting (Basehart plays it straight) this is a good horror movie.Gloria Grahame, the late Grahame who was a big movie star at one point (like Basehart) is his helper as the good old Dr.