7/10
Fix my arm - and make it snappy
3 September 2009
Warning: Spoilers
This one is from the "anti science" sub genre of 50's SciFi. A scientist attempts to learn the secrets of cell regeneration with somewhat mixed results.

While this is all a pretty obvious attempt to cash in on the success of The Fly, it is good fun. The plot (even without seeing the poster) is 101% predictable.

In what seems like a sensible medical experiment, the doctor tries a serum distilled from the thyroid glands of alligators. It clearly will help accident victims re-grow lost limbs.

No doubt, you have already guessed one of the scenes..

"Look darling, the doctors have made my arm better"

"But you have a bloody great heinous alligator's head".

Trouble is - we can all laugh at 50's movies now, but this one gave me nightmares, along with The Incredible Shrinking Man.
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