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When beautiful music hall
entertainers begin to disappear under mysterious circumstances, Inspector Tanner
is summoned to investigate. His resourceful fiancée decides to help him by
attracting the attention of the diabolical Dr. Orlof -- who, with his blind
henchman, Morpho, is using the skin of slain women to restore the beauty of his
disfigured sister, Melissa!
In 1964, when Sigma III released Riccardo Freda's 1962 classic The Horrible
Dr. Hichcock (starring Barbara Steele) to American theaters, only a sliver
of space was reserved at the bottom of the posters to accommodate mention of its
co-feature, The Awful Dr. Orlof. No one could have predicted, however,
that the movie lurking behind this unprepossessing title would someday be
remembered as the spearhead of a new movement in Spanish horror, and that its
young writer/director, using the nom de l'ecran Jess Franco, would go on to
direct approximately 150 more films over the next 35 years, becoming by far the
horror genre's most prolific artist.
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