Best Mad Scientist Parade
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Lionel Atwill, The Vampire Bat (1933): Dr. Otto von Niemann
Wanted to create life in vitro. The means: killing people in order to drain them of blood. Helper: servant Emil, whom he controls telepathically.
Wanted to create life in vitro. The means: killing people in order to drain them of blood. Helper: servant Emil, whom he controls telepathically.
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>2 alaudacorax:
That's a great shot of His Madness!
More bats & battyness:
Bela Lugosi, The Devil Bat, 1940: Dr. Carruthers
Sought revenge for being defrauded out of the financial rewards of his invention. The means: developing killer bats precision-targeted to chosen victims by giving said victims beforehand a special, bat-enraging cologne.
That's a great shot of His Madness!
More bats & battyness:
Bela Lugosi, The Devil Bat, 1940: Dr. Carruthers
Sought revenge for being defrauded out of the financial rewards of his invention. The means: developing killer bats precision-targeted to chosen victims by giving said victims beforehand a special, bat-enraging cologne.
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Lionel Atwill, The Mad Doctor of Market Street (1941): Dr. Ralph Benson
Wanted to bring dead people to life. The means: to revivify corpses, must first make corpses.
In the process:
Wanted to bring dead people to life. The means: to revivify corpses, must first make corpses.
In the process:
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John Carradine, Captive Wild Woman (1943): Dr. Walters
The Plan: 1. Turn Animals Into People 2. ???
Electrifying first results:
The Plan: 1. Turn Animals Into People 2. ???
Electrifying first results:
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I'd forgotten about this thread. Haven't seen a good mad scientist for a while ...
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Carradine made a good mad scientist. "Acquanetta" makes me thirsty... where's a refreshing sparkling water when you need one...
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Atwill again! in Man Made Monster (1941): Dr. Rigas
Goal: to create a robotic workforce through application of electricity on the human body. Poor Lon Chaney Jr. is successfully robotized. Extremely cool special effect--it wasn't static, the light actually pulsated.
Goal: to create a robotic workforce through application of electricity on the human body. Poor Lon Chaney Jr. is successfully robotized. Extremely cool special effect--it wasn't static, the light actually pulsated.
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Jess Franco's 1964 El secreto del Dr. Orloff AKA Dr. Orloff's Monster AKA Dr. Jekyll's Mistresses...
Dr. Conrad Jekyll, seen from the back, commands his creature Andros (Hugo Blanco) to go forth and murder pretty women, the more the better. Goal: revenge on a faithless minx. Excellent (if derivative) Gothic horror.
Dr. Conrad Jekyll, seen from the back, commands his creature Andros (Hugo Blanco) to go forth and murder pretty women, the more the better. Goal: revenge on a faithless minx. Excellent (if derivative) Gothic horror.
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>14 LolaWalser:
Would you believe I used to work in places like that ... well, without the rabbits and the skull ...
Would you believe I used to work in places like that ... well, without the rabbits and the skull ...
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>15 alaudacorax:
And no windows? My grad school experience in a picture.
No idea what the suspended artefact may be. It does look like a goldfish.
And no windows? My grad school experience in a picture.
No idea what the suspended artefact may be. It does look like a goldfish.