The Vengeance of Dr. Mabuse

The Vengeance of Dr. Mabuse (1972)

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Dr. Mabuse and his accomplices steal all kinds of attributes from a National Research Institute (including female staff members) in order to complete his own evil mind-control ray. Dr. Mabuse has this impressive and horribly scarred man-monster that kills for him while the entire police force desperately tries to catch him.

Date of release
1972-12-26
TMDB
6.1 / 10 (7)
Runtime
1h 20m
Genres
Horror, Crime
Director
Jesús Franco

Casting

Interesting facts

The Vengeance of Dr. Mabuse is a 1972 film directed by Jesús Franco. The film is about the character Dr. Mabuse, a who is plotting a comeback from his secret base in the United States. Mabuse has learned how to control the minds of others through a form of radiation emitted by samples of moon rocks.

Production

The Vengeance of Dr. Mabuse was a Spanish and West German co-production between Cooperativa Fénix Films and Copercines which were both based in Madrid and Tele-Cine Film-und Fernsehproduktion which was based in Berlin. The film features the character Dr. Mabuse, who was created by Norbert Jacques in his novels and then adapted to film by Fritz Lang in Dr. Mabuse the Gambler (1922) and The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933).

The film was shot between February 25 and March 12, 1971, right after production had completed on The Deadly Avenger of Soho (1972). The film was shot on location in Spain between La Manga del Mar Menor and Alicante. It was the final film director Jesus Franco made from his partnership with producer Artur Brauner that began with Vampyros Lesbos (1971).

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