(1958 TV Movie)

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1/10
Skip It, Unless You Love Suffering
R Becker24 January 2006
Sure, it's got Doug "Sting of Death" Hobart as the werewolf. Sure, it's got all the production values of a 1950s educational film (I suspect it was made by the same folks that did those). Sure, it's a black-and-white drive-in cheapie.

But it's HORRIBLE! Bottom-of-the-barrel in every possible department, THE PROFESSOR is terribly written, god-awfully acted, ineptly directed, and has the lowest possible production values. There's no thrills, no excitement, no fun... just a little over an hour of cinematic tedium such as few films can deliver.

Do yourself a favor. If you get the Sinister Cinema double feature of TALES OF FRANKENSTEIN and THE PROFESSOR, just stop watching at the end of TOF. Really.
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1/10
Move over Ed Wood, make room for the Professor
mike196422 July 2001
Warning: Spoilers
***SPOILERS*** ***SPOILERS*** This Dayton, Ohio film was discovered by Greg Luce of Sinister Cinema and saw its first release in 1988. Once you've seen it you'll know why it was never released.

Film concerns a scientist (The Professor) who is perfecting a suspended animation ray with the help of his geeky assistant. Meanwhile a reporter (The Professor's daughter's boyfriend) has written a story in the newspaper about a werewolf that has upset the Professor. Apparently a friend of the Professor has had something go terribly wrong in his atomic experiments and turned into a werewolf.

While all of this is going on we're introduced to a Communist who is after the Professor's secrets. He meets a comrade in the local library (near the Sports section) to discuss their plans. You have to see his make-up to believe it. He has a false mustache that looks like it was cut out of construction paper. The female commie friend is afraid to go along with the plan because it will take them into the area where the werewolf has been seen. However, they decide to proceed.

While the Professor is testing his ray on a rabbit, the commies arrive in the woods and our friend the werewolf attacks. He kills the main commie and his lady friend passes out. Our heros here the screams and investigate. They bring the lady back to the house and we find out she too works for a newspaper and was investigating commie activity.

Just when you are hoping something will happen to end this film, the Professor says to the camera, "We will help him because he is our friend," and the film ends. This of course leaves the viewer disappointed as nothing really happened so far and you were hoping the climax would bring at least a little something.

This is one of the most amateur films I have ever seen and in fact may have been what this was. The "acting" is nonexistent. The camera work is silly; closing in on a speaker and ending in closeup after they finished speaking. The acting is worse than you see in any Ed Wood movie.

One of the lowest ratings you can give to any film. BOMB.
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