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Excellent but underrated film

Mess with the secrets of the unknown, and you may live to regret it, if you manage to live. An exotic dancer is badly burned in a car accident, and on the verge of killing herself, ends up as part of an experiment by a scientist who promises he can give her back her beauty. Obsessed with looking as good as she did before (and trust me, she really was no looker), there are repercussions that affect everybody involved in this case. He has an assistant who brought her to him in the first place; she had a boyfriend who had just dumped her because of what she did for a living. With everybody supposedly happy, it's no surprise that looking exactly as she did before doesn't go very well for any of them. Unfortunately, what sounds intriguing in a plot synopsis ends up being boringly presented when put on film. This doesn't have the Gothic atmosphere of the films from the creator of the cult classic "Black Sunday", and lacks the exotic leading lady of someone like Barbara Steele. Even the attacks by the alleged vampire aren't really suspenseful, and when dead bodies are discovered, the reaction seemed almost comical. This was incredibly cheaply made, not acted with much passion and ultimately rather dull considering the plot line. There were dozens of horror films released each year, with American International leading the way with some variations of Edgar Allan Poe's stories, and Hammer getting on the bandwagon with its remake of Dracula, Frankenstein and the mummy. Even the silly science fiction movies which had dumb looking creatures were more fun then the bulk of these low budget drive in style film that especially those coming from Italy look even worse when dubbed.

There are no vampires in this cheapo Italian B-movie, atom age or otherwise. Instead, we get an obsessed scientist, Professor Alberto Levin (Alberto Lupo), who turns himself into a hideous monster in order to kill women for the gland needed to restore the looks of once-beautiful blonde stripper Jeanette Moreneau (Susanne Loret), whose face was horribly disfigured in a terrible automobile accident.Clearly influenced by French horror classic Les Yeux Sans Visage (1960) and Dr. Jeckyll and Mr Hyde, the plot for Atom Age Vampire is uninspired drivel, which might not be such a problem had the film been brilliantly paced, incredibly sleazy, wonderfully acted, or directed with flair, or if there had simply been some decent special effects to enjoy. But there aren't.Anton Giulio Majano's direction is flat, the movie seriously drags its heels with far too much talk and not enough action (I watched the heavily cut 86 minute edit—God only knows how dull the fully uncut version is), the cast are wooden, Loret offers a glimpse of cleavage, but that's all, and the transformation effects are of the crap time-lapse kind used several decades earlier to turn Lon Chaney Jr. into a wolf-man.For a really fun film that explores very similar territory, check out Corruption (1968)—it's everything that Atom Age Vampire should have been.

Many of us grew up seeing this Italian horror flick on TV under its alternate American title, ATOM AGE VAMPIRE. The most readily available copies are truncated and badly dubbed into English, and ran anywhere from 60 to 80-ish minutes, despite it originally being something like 105 minutes. My review is based on rediscovering the movie through a recently released Italian DVD in its original running time and true title - SEDDOK, L'ETEREDE SATANA. The results are definitely better, as there is a new striptease scene added in addition to more dialogue (all of it in Italian) and extra scenes with the monster featured in the film ... but this is still only a so-so time killer for dedicated horror hounds only.A gorgeous blonde stripper (Susanne Loret) has half her face scarred up after a bad car wreck, and so an older doctor (Alberto Lupo) who's been experimenting with glandular treatments manages to restore her beauty. But he ends up falling in love with her, and when the cure proves only to be temporary, the doctor must go out and kill other women in order to keep the restoration process going. Since he can't bring himself to murder, he willingly transforms into a horrible monster to give him the guts to carry out his diabolical intent.If the bulk of that synopsis does not sound familiar, well it should ... this is not by any means a fresh idea, and most recently had been dabbled with in a superior French film, LES YEUX SANS VISAGE (1959). The film in its original length does seem somewhat overlong and padded, though in all fairness the Italian DVD is only partly in English, as the new scenes were never dubbed. And since it's not English subtitled either, we are still away from the "perfect" release to evaluate the movie in the U.S. **1/2 out of ****

"Seddok, l'erede di Satana" aka. "Atom Age Vampire" of 1960 is a cheesy but fun Italian trash Horror film with a bad reputation that tells a story very familiar to fans of 60s Eurohorror. Unluckily for this film (but luckily for my fellow Eurohorror lovers) "Atom Age Vampire" has a storyline that is almost identical to those of TWO fantastic films from the same year, George Franju's masterpiece "Les Yeux Sans Visage" (aka. "Eyes Without A Face") and Giorgio Ferroni's brilliantly atmospheric Gothic gem "Il Mulino Delle Donne Di Pietro" (aka. "Mill of The Stone Women"). Two years later, Spanish cult-director Jess Franco would create another highlight about a similar theme with "Gritos En La Noche" (aka. "The Awful Dr. Orloff") of 1962. "Les Yeux Sans Visage" is positively one of the most fascinating Horror films ever made, and "Mill of the Stone Women" as well as "The Awful Dr. Orloff" are also wonderful films that no genre-lover could possibly afford to miss. In comparison to these fantastic films, this "Atom Age Vampire" is incredibly weak, of course, but, as far as I am concerned, it is not awful and has its qualities.As said, the story is familiar. An ingenious but nuts scientist is obsessed with restoring the face of a beauty who was disfigured in a car accident. And he has no scruples to commit whatever crime or insane experiments in order to make his ambitions a success and restore her beauty... Most of the performances are ridiculous and the plot line is considerably weaker than in the aforementioned comparable classics, but its still fun to watch. The film does have a certain atmosphere and morbidity, however (allthough not comparable to "Eyes Without a Face", "Mill of the Stone Women" and "Dr. Orloff", of course), and the makeup effects are actually quite well-done. The jazzy score is also quite decent, but it doesn't always fit in. Some of the character behave in downright absurd manners and the dialogue is often more than ridiculous and unintentionally funny ("Am I wrong or are you getting fatter?"). Logic is also not the film's strongest point, of course. So "Atom Age Vampire" is certainly a cheesy film that cannot compete with highlights about the same topic, but I still think it has a certain charm. Try to get hold of the Italian language version, the dubbing is terrible (which is not something that can be blamed on the film itself, in my opinion). This can easily be skipped, but it can also be enjoyable to my fellow fans of low-budget 60s Horror. Make sure to watch "Mill of the Stone Women", "The Awful Dr. Orloff" and especially "Eyes Without a Face" before this one though.