Review of Doctor X (1932) by Scott S — 03 Apr 2009
Doctor X (1932) -- [4.5] -- There's a house full of mad scientists and one of them is a cannibal. For such a lively concept, the movie is pretty subdued until the final five minutes. I hate Lee Tracy as the reporter.
His annoying brand of humor contaminates the whole film. Seeing him accidentally back into skeleton after skeleton made me wish the cannibal scientist would just eat him already. Oh, and he has a hand buzzer gag that he uses.
Over. And over. And over again. It's like Tracy and his character are from an entirely different movie. "Doctor X" is sometimes known as the first color horror film, but it's just a two-strip Technicolor process, not full-blown color.
The two-strip process is muddy-looking, but gives an interesting ambience to the movie.
This review of Doctor X (1932) was written by Scott S on 03 Apr 2009.
Doctor X has generally received mixed reviews.
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