azathothpwiggins Overcome by emotion, due to being dumped by her boyfriend, Pierre (Sergio Fantoni), beautiful model, Jeanette Moreneau (Susanne Loret) gets into a car accident. She scars her face in the process, looking like she fell asleep on a waffle iron. We know she was distraught at the time, because she kept screeching, "Pierre! Pierre!" a lot. Luckily, a certain Prof. Levin (Alberto Lupo) wants to use his latest formula on her, and dispatches his crony, Monique (Franca Parisi) to fetch Jeanette. Levin uses his serum on her, achieving amazing results. However, there is a cost. Levin will have to up the ante, and commit unspeakable crimes in order to keep Jeanette's face unscathed. He even decides to try a new formula -involving r-a-d-i-a-t-i-o-n- on himself, causing a fairly predictable outcome. Meanwhile, Pierre searches for Jeanette in every belly-dancing jazz club he can visit. Can he find her before Levin sinks even deeper into madness? ATOM AGE VAMPIRE is a nice slab of sci-fi hyper-schlock, culminating in a wonderful monster-runs-amok finale! EXTRA POINTS: For Levin's stop-motion transformation scene! "

AlexanderAnubis Seddok, l'erede di Satana (1960) aka Atom Age Vampire CONTAINS SPOILERSAs another IMDb reviewer has written, this film is only "recommended for horror fans." The basic story is very familiar: hubris and the use of questionable, experimental methods to return an injured woman's (Susanne Loret) unblemished beauty leads to murder, mayhem, madness and moral decay. Done better - in places - than the 'Atom Age Vampire' title implies, which is probably more descriptive of the US (1963 drive-ins?) marketing than the film's plot. The actual facial injury is not horrific, or even particularly ugly but still causes great distress - Gloria Grahame would have understood perfectly - and it provides Ms. Loret a couple of opportunities to do Veronica Lake and mask it quite attractively with a fall of hair. It also provides more than a couple of moments of unintentional humor.It is also refreshing to see some small restraint on the gratuitous destruction of the protagonists; the negative side effects, (and funnier makeup), of tampering in inappropriate domains ultimately falls on the tamperer, (where they belong), and not the innocent accident victim. Since Loret's character is a dancer/stripper/etc that could have been used as a pretext, (certainly if this had been a 1960 US production), to turn her into a cardboard cutout labeled Harlot &/or Sin of Vanity and treat her like Dorian Gray or Victor Frankenstein along with the arrogant scientist (Alberto Lupo). Instead, in the end she is apparently cured and free to live happily ever after.Browsing IMDb I learned there exists, (or existed), an original, uncut, un-dubbed 105 minute version, which I will probably never see, but doubt that the omission will be one of my deathbed regrets. However, there is an entry for this movie at Wikipedia which states: "Although no 105 minute print has ever been found, it is believed by some that the 105 minute running time was because the deleted VHS release on Acme Video stated a run time of ±105 Mins. (when it meant 1 Hour and 5 minutes)." The article is supported by the reasonably solid sounding reference: Science Fiction Film Source Book, David Wingrove, Longman Group Ltd., 1985. At any rate the question has apparently been under scrutiny for 30+ years.Just in case this isn't tiresome enough, the US video release was snipped to 72 minutes, and when it made it to DVD was further reduced to 69 minutes....but 1 hr + 5 m = 65 m =/= 69 m, so perhaps the argument above that the 105 minute version never existed is flawed. There are depths to be plumbed here by a courageous investigator.The film is out of copyright, (maybe nobody wanted to bother renewing it), and is available from the Internet Archive – their copy is probably ripped from VHS or other tape media but the quality is quite good, (well, watchable), and it is the full 5220 seconds.XYZ

Rainey Dawn The actual title for this Italian film is "Seddok, l'erede di Satana". The version/copy I have is dubbed over in English very well which made it easy to watch and enjoy.The movie is not half bad - it actually kept my interest until the very end of the film. This is the type of movie that horror buffs might enjoy when they are in the mood for a fairly good older b-rated sci-fi horror flick.Jeanette Moreneau (Susanne Loret) is a stripper and had her face disfigured in a car accident. She ends up in a hospital where she meets her soon-to-be doctor & caretaker Prof. Alberto Levin (Alberto Lupo). Jeanette soon finds herself trapped in Prof. Levin's care for you see Prof. Levin has developed a treatment that can restore the cells and return the skin back to normal - but for how long and at what cost? I found the movie entertaining and interesting although it's not what I would call a really, really good b-rated horror film - it's simply not bad and is fairly interesting.6/10

whpratt1 I doubt very much if this film will scare you to death watching it, because it is a combination of a mad scientist, a man who turns into a beast and even the title has something to do with Atoms and Dracula.The film starts off with a beautiful blonde stripper having a fight with her boyfriend who is a sailor, he leaves her and she makes a dash to her car and has a very bad accident where her face is scared for life. This blonde girl gives up on life until she meets up with a doctor who claims he can make her face just like it was and remove all old scar tissue. This doctor begins to fall in love with his patient and is willing to go to all extremes to keep her looking young and beautiful. You have probably seen different versions of this film before, and in the year 1960 they tried to scare us to death.