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      Corridors of Blood

      1958 1h 25m Horror List
      Reviews 50% 1,000+ Ratings Audience Score Determined to develop a gaseous drug that allows patients to tolerate the difficulties of surgery, Dr. Bolton (Boris Karloff) devises numerous opium-based remedies, which he tests on himself. His experiments fail miserably in trials performed for his colleagues -- who include his own son, Jonathan (Francis Matthews) -- and Bolton is dismissed from his position. Having developed an addiction to opium, Bolton finds work treating the poor but falls in with grave robbers in order to get drugs. Read More Read Less

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      Audience Member Unsettling semi body-horror 50's film led by cinematic icons Boris Karloff and Christopher Lee. The mood and atmosphere is thick while the story will stay with you. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/20/23 Full Review martin a Boris is always fantastic but this film is not one of his best. Here a kind surgeon who wants to stop people suffering pain during amputation tries to develop pain relief during operations but he is mocked by his fellow doctors, and taken advantage of by a group of poor Inn owners killing people to sell the bodies and getting him to sign the death certificates as legit! Interesting in parts, but boring. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member A lot of fun watching two great horror icons together like Boris Karloff and Sir Christopher Lee. I'm so glad The Criterion Collection bothered putting this foursome out in their 'Monsters and Madmen' boxed set. Such a guilty pleasure to behold, in its intriguing period-piece script of a well-meaning doctor trying to discover anesthesia yet getting drug-addicted in the process. Great stuff. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/06/23 Full Review Audience Member Karloff in top form as he plays a surgeon who gets addicted to strong pain relief in his search to make operations a painless experience Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/10/23 Full Review Audience Member An interesting film that blends a Jekyll & Hyde type of theme with a Burke & Hare body stealing plot, and ties them together with a medical plot involving the discovery of anesthesia. Boris Karloff stars as a respected surgeon in Victorian London who is committed to finding a way to perform surgery without inflicting pain on his patients. He develops a gas mixture that seems to work, but finds nobody in the medical establishment willing to believe him. He experiments with the formula on himself, and through a mixture of overwork and increasing addiction to the narcotic gas, wanders around London at night with no memory of what happened. He falls in with a criminal gang at an unsavory pub that want to use him to get fake death certificates for the bodies they sell to the hospital. A really classy horror outing that features one of the only pairings of Karloff and Christopher Lee (as the body snatching, murderer Resurrection Joe). Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/01/23 Full Review Audience Member A lot of fun watching two great horror icons together like Boris Karloff and Sir Christopher Lee. I'm so glad The Criterion Collection bothered putting this foursome out in their 'Monsters and Madmen' boxed set. Such a guilty pleasure to behold, in its intriguing period-piece script of a well-meaning doctor trying to discover anesthesia yet getting drug-addicted in the process. Great stuff. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/24/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Mark Bourne DVDJournal.com ...a musty but good-looking production, with Karloff splendid as the devoted surgeon pulled asunder by his own experiments and exploited by the underworld gang of tavern low-lifes who trick him into officializing their corpses-for-profit scheme. Mar 5, 2007 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Synopsis Determined to develop a gaseous drug that allows patients to tolerate the difficulties of surgery, Dr. Bolton (Boris Karloff) devises numerous opium-based remedies, which he tests on himself. His experiments fail miserably in trials performed for his colleagues -- who include his own son, Jonathan (Francis Matthews) -- and Bolton is dismissed from his position. Having developed an addiction to opium, Bolton finds work treating the poor but falls in with grave robbers in order to get drugs.
      Director
      Robert Day
      Production Co
      Amalgamated Productions
      Genre
      Horror
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Jan 26, 2017
      Runtime
      1h 25m
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