Atom Age Vampire (1960)

Atom Age Vampire (1960)

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Tagline(s):	You'll gasp with Horror...a spine-tingling motion picture only the atom age could produce!
	They Want Your Blood...Now!
	For the FRIGHT of Your Life SEE...

Nomination Year: 2012

SYNOPSIS: Jeanette Morineau, a stripper, has a disfiguring car accident while chasing after her lover. A mysterious woman working for a mysterious scientist offers her hope to regain her beauty: A controversial and secret new "therapy." Desperate to fix her ravaged face ("ravaged" as in "some slight, easily concealable scarring in one small portion of her still-gorgeous face"), she reluctantly agrees. The serum is a success...temporarily. Now in love and obsessed with her, the doctor must kill young women and transplant their "glands" into Jeanette to maintain her cure.

There really is no "vampire." Just a kind of Mr. Hyde. Though I suppose you could claim the vernacular.

Bryan Cassidy

Smithee Award Nominations

Stupidest-Looking Monster
Personally, I Would've Gone with Booze In a voice-over extravaganza of thought, the Prof has an epiphany: In order to overcome the remorse of killing ladies to keep Jeannette pretty, he'll inject himself with the cancer/monster-making serum and turn into...the Atom Age Vampire!

Worst Science
Brought to You by the Makers of Insta-Cancer®! A voice-over tells us all about Derma-28. Which, as you know, sprung from Derma-25, the serum that caused wild abnormal cell growth. And, oh, by the way, I cured cancer. No biggie.

Worst Cover Copy
Color? Black and White? The color stills ignore the fact that the movie is in black and white. Amongst other inadequacies. Like the fact that there's no vampire.

Inane Dialogue
He Admires Her Intelligence, Usually Doc wants to possess Jeannette creatively. He "sweet-talks" Monique into remaining. She succumbs. "I'll send her away. And forget her." Then he announces "I'll kill a thousand times before admitting defeat." Then he kisses her. She stays.

"Whoops!"
[Insert Murder Here] After he finishes convincing Monique, the film fades to black, there's a brief shot of the doctor at his desk (or something), then some more black and a new scene starts, the one where the Prof is admitting the cops to investigate Monique's death.

Acting Appropriately Stupid
"I Did It To Force You To Experiment on Me!" What an honor to give yourself cancer so that this genius can cure it!

Directors

Director	Claim to Fame
Anton Giulio Majano	56 Italian credits. Quality? You decide.

Cast

Actor	Character	Claim to Fame
Alberto Lupo	Prof. Alberto Levin	Italian actor who was Menelao in The Lion of Thebes.
Susanne Loret	Jeanette Moreneau	Liliana in Uncle Was a Vampire.
Sergio Fantoni	Pierre Mornet	Capt. Oriani in Von Ryan's Express and Haman in Esther and the King.
Franca Parisi	Monique Riviere	Poppea in The Ten Gladiators and Cornelia in Caesar Against the Pirates.
Ivo Garrani	Commisario Bouchard	Soult in Waterloo and Julius Caesar in The Slave.
Andrea Scotti	Paul Leroi	Alcmene in The Minotaur, The Wild Beast of Crete and Timanthes in The Loves of Hercules.
Roberto Bertea	Sascha	Played Scapino on the "Capitan Fracassa" miniseries.
Tullio Altamura	Dr. Doubré	Antoninus in Rebel Gladiators and Assur, King of Babylon in Hercules in the Tyrants of Babylon and a lot of other Hercules films.


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