Review of Doctor Blood's Coffin

Creepy little horror film that I like a great deal. The plot has Dr Blood returning to his home in England to take over for his dad. Unfortunately for the town the younger Blood is actually trying to follow in the footsteps of Dr Frankenstein and revive the dead, and to that end he has set up shop in an abandoned mine and has been kidnapping the locals to continue the experiments that got him run out of Vienna. Coming out of the British horror boom of the late 1950's and early 1960's this is neat little low key film that uses its locations and a muted color scheme to great effect. Where the Hammer films in someways heightened everything into an almost fairytale like feel, this film goes the opposite way using the drabness of the real world to make a real feeling film. Indeed the film doesn't throw too many unreal twists or way out ideas at you its all low key and close to reality which helps to add to the feeling of unease. Is the film perfect? No. Its clunky in some of the ways that the revive the dead films are and perhaps things are a bit too contrived, with Hazel Court's rescue being too aptly timed. That said its still a nice way to pass a rainy Saturday night n front of the TV with a bowl of popcorn and a soda. 7 is out of 10.