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Doctor Death: Seeker of Souls

1973

Horror

6
IMDb Rating 5.5/10 10 358 358

supernatural mad scientist eternal youth murder decapitation spirit

Plot summary

John Considine plays the flamboyant Dr. Death, a thousand-year-old magician who has mastered he art of transferring souls from one body to another and thereby manages to perpetuate himself by jumping from one body to the next. Apparently the Doc is a kindred spirit since his blood is a highly-corrosive acid that can strip flesh from bone

Director

Eddie Saeta Photo
Eddie Saeta

Top cast

Leon Askin Photo
Leon Askin as Thor
Moe Howard Photo
Moe Howard as Volunteer in the Audience
Sivi Aberg Photo
Sivi Aberg as Venus
John Considine Photo
John Considine as Doctor Death
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819.26 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
NR
23.976 fps
1 hr 29 min
Seeds 5
1.49 GB
1920*1080
English 2.0
NR
23.976 fps
1 hr 29 min
Seeds 10

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by R Becker 5 / 10

Ambitious But Not Quite There

Soap actor John Considine is a bit too pretty and lightweight for the title role, and it's quite surreal to see Moe Howard appear in the first act of the movie, but DOCTOR DEATH is actually an interesting little movie that might have been better. It's very, very much of its time -- not just in terms of the production design but also its treatment of the occult and of horror stories -- but they really try to do a big story on a little budget. And that's nearly always a respectable thing.For me, one of the highlights of the film is the brief (and silent) appearance of Larry "Seymour" Vincent, the premier Los Angeles horror host of the 1970s. He is part of an amusing movie-within-the-movie that actually makes you wish that you could see *that* movie instead of the one you're actually watching (DOCTOR DEATH)!
Reviewed by ofumalow 4 / 10

Doctor Dullish

This is the only feature directed by a man who otherwise worked primarily in TV (mostly as an assistant director), and despite some gore, it very much feels like an early 1970s television project, with the same kind of flat lighting, compositions, scoring and pacing. (It's exactly the aesthetic parodied by the recent "The Love Witch.") The script is a jumble of illogical nonsense even by horror standards-it's one of those stories that falls apart the second you ask "Why didn't our protagonist just call the police when he realized murders were being committed?"-and doesn't seem even halfway convinced by its own feeble reincarnation hocus-pocus.John Considine does clearly enjoy camping it up as the villain, and Florence Marly behaves likewise in her briefer role. But the other cast members play it straight in a dull, square fashion, as if they were guesting on some routine network TV series. The movie seems to be halfway making fun of its own grisly silliness, but it's a testament to the pedestrian execution there's not much fun to be shared in watching it.
Reviewed by Judexdot1 5 / 10

not very scary, but it has some great moments

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