Bela stars as Dr. Brewster, but as the movie starts we learn that the
brilliant doctor is missing.  An anonymous person tells some news reporters
(and us) that the sister of the missing doctor is coming in on a boat from
Europe.  And he tells them that she is a ghost hunter.  So, the reporters
ask her for a story, and she politely declines, still mourning her missing
brother.  She and her brother's assistant go home, and he tells her about
Dr. Brewster.  The doctor and his assistant had come upon a great discovery,
and of course, the doctor wanted to be the first one experimented on.
However, it left him in a bad condition - one he cannot recover from.  So,
the story about him missing was false, and he is actually living in the
hidden laboratory of his house.

We then see the good doctor - he is sleeping in a cell with a gorilla.  Oh
my, and he is half ape/half man!  Well, actually, he walks with a hunched
back and has a lot more hair.  We learn more of his predicament, and find
out that he did this to himself by injecting "ape fluid".  Not exactly sure
what ape fluid is, or how you would collect or concoct such a thing, but
that's what he said.  And, there is a way to cure him of his simian
affliction, and that is with - get this - injections of human spinal fluid!
Bela gets upset when his assistant will not kill innocent people to supply
him with spinal fluid, so he and his gorilla go on their own to kill.  The
fluid does allow Bela to walk upright, but does nothing for his hairiness.
And it's only temporary.  So the doctor has to kill more and more... and
well, you get the picture.  There's more story with the reporters, and with
that anonymous guy (whose identity we do find out at the very end of the
film), but none of it is any good.  A pretty disappointing film overall.
 
 
 
 

Quality: 2.0  Visuals: 2.0  Intensity: 2.5  Laughability: 3.5 
OVERALL RATING: 2.5