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(1970) *

Yeah, I’m not even really sure what this movie’s about. There’s a few things that happen simultaneously, and they sort of get tied together at the end. They sort of don’t. Here are the story threads:
1. A guy keeps waking up in a hospital, and each time he wakes up, another limb has been amputated
2. A government, that dresses and looks like the Nazi govt is in charge, but instead of a swastika, their sign looks like the top of Neptune ’s triton.
An officer in that government who learns how to kill people with a Vulcan neck pinch sort of thing.
3. Girls get picked up at Mod nightclubs, and brutally murdered, with some signs of vampirism.
[Image] This is a mod vampire. Now, Vincent Price appears in the movie about ten minutes in. But then, he doesn’t come back until 57 minutes in. He’s kind of creepy, I guess, but I think they hired him to appear in the film just so that they could put him on the movie posters and try to sell it as a Vincent Price flick. It certainly is not.
[Image]This is Vincent's third and final scene in the film!

This movie just rambles on and on. The resolution is not exciting or satisfactory. On the plus side, as this was a 1969 low budget Brit flick, a few of the guys that show up in Star Wars working on the Death Star are seen in this movie as young military officers. I don’t know what their names are, but one of the guys was the one who admonishes Vader for choking everyone. Star Wars – now there’s a good movie. Hey, Vader’s like a ghost, and Kenobi ends up kind of like a ghost, could that be a Horror movie? No, I’m just getting ridiculous now.
[Image] Look, it's Count Dooku!