The Awful Dr. Orlof

The Awful Dr. Orlof (1962)

Gritos en la noche

You'll get an insight into the face of terror!

Dr. Orlof, a former prison doctor, abducts beautiful women from nightclubs to use their skin to repair his daughter's fire-scarred face. He is assisted by Morpho, a deformed monstrosity who delights in biting his victims. Orlof had better hurry, though -- a young police inspector and his ballerina girlfriend are onto his sadistic practices.

Date of release
1962-05-14
TMDB
5.9 / 10 (48)
Runtime
1h 30m
Genres
Horror, Thriller
Director
Jesús Franco
Collection
Dr. Orloff Collection

Casting

Interesting facts

The Awful Dr. Orloff is a 1962 horror film written and directed by Jesús Franco. It stars Howard Vernon as the mad Dr. Orloff who wants to repair his disfigured daughter's face with skin grafts from other women with the aid of a slavish, blind henchman named Morpho. A co-production between Spain and France, filmed in Madrid, the film is considered to be the earliest Spanish horror film.

Production

While filming his tribute to Hollywood musical films (Vampiresas 1930), director Jesús Franco convinced his producers to watch the British film The Brides of Dracula (1960). After the screening, Franco proposed that he could make similar films "in the same vein, but with a different style". Franco eventually convinced the same French co-producer, the Paris-based company Eurociné, who produced Vampiresas 1930.

Franco was concerned how the film would be handled by censors from the heavily-conservative Falangist regime. As a result, he produced two versions of the film, one that was unedited and one that was for British and Spanish audiences that had the scenes with nudity in them cut. Spanish censors were also concerned with films that would damage the reputation of their country.

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