Storyline

Dr. Edward Pretorius and his assistant, the physician Crawford Tillinghast, have developed the Resonator, a machine to stimulate the sixth sense through the pineal gland. When Crawford activates the apparatus, he sees creatures flying in the air and he summons Dr. Pretorius. The experiment goes out of control and Dr. Pretorius refuses to turn off the Resonator. Meanwhile their neighbor calls the police, and when the police officers arrive, they see Crawford trying to escape from his house and Dr. Pretorius beheaded. Crawford is sent to a mental institution under the supervision of the sadistic Dr. Bloch. However, the prominent psychiatrist Dr. Katherine McMichaels requests the custody of Crawford and Detective Bubba Brownlee that is investigating the case stays with them. Katherine goes with Crawford and Bubba to see the Resonator and turns the machine on. Dr. Pretorius returns in a mutant shape and attacks them, in the beginning of a gore night with weird life forms.

Plot Keywords

body horror, cult film, molestation, mad scientist, monster, title spoken by character, h.p. lovecraft, sole black character dies cliche, deeply disturbed person, human experimentation, part stop motion, cannibalism, manic laughter, based on short story, experiment, mutant, sadomasochism, insanity, bomb, nymphomania

Short Review

Faithful to that netherworld of Lovecraft's fiction where otherworldly monsters lurk just under the fabric of our reality.

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