The Awful Dr. Orloff (1962)

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When beautiful music hall entertainers begin to disappear under mysterious circumstances, Inspector Tanner is summoned to investigate. His resourceful fiancée decides to help him by attracting the attention of the diabolical Dr. Orlof - who, with his blind henchman, Morpho, is using the skin of slain women to restore the beauty of his disfigured sister, Melissa!

In 1964, when Sigma III released Riccardo Freda`s 1962 classic The Horrible Dr. Hichcock (starring Barbara Steele) to American theaters, only a sliver of space was reserved at the bottom of the posters to accommodate mention of its co-feature, The Awful Dr. Orlof. No one could have predicted, however, that the movie lurking behind this unprepossessing title would someday be remembered as the spearhead of a new movement in Spanish horror, and that its young writer/director, using the nom de l'ecran Jess Franco, would go on to direct approximately 150 more films over the next 35 years, becoming by far the horror genre`s most prolific artist.