"Your monstrous ugliness breeds monstrous hatred. Good! I can use your hate." An eccentric neurological surgeon Dr. Vollin (Bela Lugosi), with an obsession for Edgar Allen Poe, is pursuaded to operate on a young woman Jean (Irene Ware), brain damaged in a car wreck. Vollin becomes obsessed with her and plans to kidnap her and torture her fiance and father in a dungeon a la Poe. Obviously he cannot do this himself so turns a wanted criminal (Boris Karloff) into a deformed monster to make him conform to his will and carry out his plan.
Lugosi gives a suitably malicious performance in this classic early horror. Well worth seeking out.
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