Basically a colorful retread of "The Corpse Vanishes" and "Voodoo Man", all this is missing is the secret entrance far off a secluded road that even the police don't know about. Instead of the diminutive Angelo Rossito in "The Corpse Vanishes" and the half witted John Carradine in "Voodoo Man", there's two little men, silent but sinister looking, one dressed in lamb wool throughout.
It's the story of a wealthy man whose wife is burnt beyond recognition and confined to a wheelchair, turning from a sweet, devoted wife into a jealous harpie of a monster. She cruelly kills her nurse through the presence of a poisonous prickly plant then orders her husband to find other women whose skin will be used to replace hers.
So three prostitutes are brought out, tortured and murdered, one raped by the two dwarves. All you see of the wife is just one hideous eye above some scarred facial tissue peeking out of the door, hearing her rants and raves from her perspective as she looks on at her husband or whatever victim she's begging him to kill for her.
So this tells us that beauty is controlled by the skin, that being beautiful within only works when the face is young and gorgeous and that cruelty comes from being ugly. There are a lot of beautiful scenes in this well made but predictable film, and unlike its two Monogram predecessors, this runs 90 minutes as opposed to an hour.
So that's 30 more minutes of naked women, some vile torture scenes and more shots of that hideous profile that needs more than just a makeover to cleanse its now ugly soul. We never do find out what happened to the cruel ex-lover of the husband that forced the wife into the fire in the first place.
It's the story of a wealthy man whose wife is burnt beyond recognition and confined to a wheelchair, turning from a sweet, devoted wife into a jealous harpie of a monster. She cruelly kills her nurse through the presence of a poisonous prickly plant then orders her husband to find other women whose skin will be used to replace hers.
So three prostitutes are brought out, tortured and murdered, one raped by the two dwarves. All you see of the wife is just one hideous eye above some scarred facial tissue peeking out of the door, hearing her rants and raves from her perspective as she looks on at her husband or whatever victim she's begging him to kill for her.
So this tells us that beauty is controlled by the skin, that being beautiful within only works when the face is young and gorgeous and that cruelty comes from being ugly. There are a lot of beautiful scenes in this well made but predictable film, and unlike its two Monogram predecessors, this runs 90 minutes as opposed to an hour.
So that's 30 more minutes of naked women, some vile torture scenes and more shots of that hideous profile that needs more than just a makeover to cleanse its now ugly soul. We never do find out what happened to the cruel ex-lover of the husband that forced the wife into the fire in the first place.