A unibrowed Bela Lugosi plays Dr. Mirakle. He has a sideshow act where he rambles on about evolution with his visual aid/partner Erik the Gorilla (a chimpanzee in some scenes and a man in an ape costume in others). To prove his theory about the kinship between man and ape, Lugosi has been abducting young women and attempting to mix their blood with that of his loyal simian. The experiments have been a failure and the corpses of young ladies are dumped like yesterday’s garbage. A med student is slowly figuring out what’s going on and his girlfriend has caught the eye of Lugosi and his monkey. Lugosi is fun as hell playing the mad scientist and there’s some intense (for the time) fetishized violence on display. There’s a bit of rambling but nothing too offensive.
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