
Metropolis
1927


“Nothing ever stripped your nerves screamingly raw like the diabolical Dr. Z”
37 votes
A woman seeks to avenge her father's death using a local dancer, with long poisonous fingernails, to do her bidding.
Director
Jesús FrancoWriters
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**_Miss Zimmer manipulates a provocative dancer to avenge her father_** A Spanish-French production masterminded by Jess Franco, this combines the moody artistic tone of early ’60’s B&W mystery/horror flicks “Night Tide” and “Carnival of Souls” with bits of the Frankenstein story for imaginative Euro horror. There’s also the risqué sideshow element of “The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies,” just not in color. It’s early Franco at the top of his ‘B’ game. On the feminine front there are several beauties: Lucía Prado (Barbara), Mabel Karr (Irma…
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