'The Awful Doctor Orlof' (1962) Jess Franco.

During the sensational, sin-slinging 60s, the only moderately smutty sensual iconoclast, Jess Franco was then expertly crafting some more than credible, visually sumptuous crime thrillers! Not the least of which was the medically deviated, morbidly magnificent, shudderingly shadow-steeped B/W shocker 'The Awful Doctor Orlof' (1962). A wickedly dark, grievously atmospheric period bone-chiller, wherein the dashingly urbane, devastatingly handsome, Dr. Orloff (Howard Vernon) grimly orchestrates a deliciously despicable campaign of maniacally conceived murder! The terrible crimes being cruelly perpetrated by the egregious-looking, Morpho (Riccardo Valle), his blind, eerily pallid, ping pong ball-eyed murder minion! Each night this wretchedly shambling misfit, surreptitiously stalks the inhospitable back alley glooms to capture the unsuspecting beautiful female quarry. His sadistic master requires these grisly raw materials to effect a viable skin graft, ever hopeful of repairing his beloved daughter's ruinous visage! 

While owing much to, Georges Franju's immortally macabre masterpiece 'Les Yeux Sans Visage', maestro Franco's diabolical descent into monochromatic, anthropologically deranged monomania is a triumph of transgressive horror cinema! The grisly actions of Howard Vernon's suavely sinister, skin-harvesting Doctor Orloff, and his misbegotten, pitifully sightless, yet ultimately tragic manservant making for a singularly striking 60s Gothic Horror nightmare. Jess Franco masterfully displays his visual eloquence, his dynamic camerawork engendering many memorably macabre, witheringly warped terror tableaus. 'The Awful Doctor Orlof' is a risque, torso traumatizing, far from faceless fright-flick from the inventively insane creator of inimitable Euro-cult classics 'She Killed in Ecstasy', and the magisterial midnight movie madness of 'The Erotic Rites of Frankenstein'. 

'When it comes to deliciously demented 60s Euro-horror, it's Orlof or nothing!!!!' - Weirdlingwolf.