Not a great film, this is a short from 1965 and was directed by David L. Hewitt but it was actually meant to be part of a show, apparently. At one-point monsters are sent out of the film and actors in the theatre would have come out and terrorised the audience.
The film starts with the Mad Doctor (Vic McGee, Gallery of Horrors) warning the audience in a dialogue that was Criswellian to say the very least and then the credits are all read out, whilst a person in a gorilla suit (later named as Big G) plays with film equipment. This opening takes the best part of 6-minutes out of the roughly 30 of the film.
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| the sorority pledges |
A college Professor (James Reason) and detective inspect an old house, looking for college students, on Halloween. The house is known to have housed a Mad Scientist in the past, who turned youths into monsters (and who is still in the basement). After they have left a group of five girls and five guys come in. The girls are going to do a sorority pledge by spending the night in a haunted house. After installing them, the guys leave (intent on returning later with monster masks to scare them).
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| the doctor and Draculina |
Obviously they will end up being kidnapped – one will be turned into a gorilla (and then turned back by Big G, it seems). The rest will be chained up for experimentation, following a Scooby-Doo type run through the house (and the same hallway) scene. One of the vials of liquid (for use in the transformation process, I assume) says vampire. The actual reason for the mention is that hanging with the Mad Doctor is Draculina (Pauline Hillkurt) – presumably a vampire that was created by the Mad Doctor in the past, she does nothing vampiric particularly but I assume she was one of the creatures who would then invade the theatre. This is, to say the least, a curio. If curious the film can be found on both Plex and Tubi.
The imdb page is here.
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