Narrated by young Bradford Dillman whose brother wrote and co-produced the picture, Frank Gerstle stars as a brooding scientist, shunned by his professional community for conducting brain transplant experiments, funded privately by an elderly lady (Eaton) desperate to regain her youth by having her brain implanted into the body of a young, shapely vessel.
Erika Peters, Judy Bamber (performing an erratic cockney accent) and Lisa Lang (performing an erratic Latin accent) play the trio of foreign maids assembled from which Eaton can select the prime candidate for Gerstle's ghastly brain transplant. Fowler plays Eaton's somewhat younger 'gigolo' (as he's described in narration), doing the grunt work while Eaton behaves like a miserly old witch, who'll stop at nothing to secure her fountain of youth.
There's a few creepy moments with bizarre human-animal experiments producing horribly mutated creatures (called "monstrosities"), a memorable eye-gouge scene, and a zombie-fied cadaver mindlessly roaming the estate after a failed brain transplant experiment. Gerstle is competent as the intrepid scientist, not without conscience, while Eaton is perhaps the more deranged of the two, treating her subjects like slaves in the pursuit of eternal youth. A tick over an hour, it's reminiscent of "The Island of Dr. Moreau" and might do enough to attract minor cult status.
Erika Peters, Judy Bamber (performing an erratic cockney accent) and Lisa Lang (performing an erratic Latin accent) play the trio of foreign maids assembled from which Eaton can select the prime candidate for Gerstle's ghastly brain transplant. Fowler plays Eaton's somewhat younger 'gigolo' (as he's described in narration), doing the grunt work while Eaton behaves like a miserly old witch, who'll stop at nothing to secure her fountain of youth.
There's a few creepy moments with bizarre human-animal experiments producing horribly mutated creatures (called "monstrosities"), a memorable eye-gouge scene, and a zombie-fied cadaver mindlessly roaming the estate after a failed brain transplant experiment. Gerstle is competent as the intrepid scientist, not without conscience, while Eaton is perhaps the more deranged of the two, treating her subjects like slaves in the pursuit of eternal youth. A tick over an hour, it's reminiscent of "The Island of Dr. Moreau" and might do enough to attract minor cult status.