Genre: Sci-Fi
Rating: NR
Also known as:
The Curious
Case of Dr. Humpp
La venganza
del sexo
Synopsis:
A strange
creature abducts 11 people, including a beautiful stripper named Rachel
(Gloria Prat). Police Inspector Benedict is baffled, while reporter George
Foran (Richard Bauleo) believes that the kidnappings are related to kidnappings
in Italy, 30 years earlier. A mad scientist was trying to improve the human
species through sex. Meanwhile, Dr. Humpp (Aldo Barbero) and his nurse
(Susan Beltran) examine the effects of the aphrodisiac they're giving the
abductees. Returning to his lab, Dr. Humpp has a seizure that's cured when
his nurse gives him a liquid extracted from a couple while they're making
love. His nurse begs him to stop his experiments and use her to keep himself
alive but he cruelly rejects her. Elsewhere, the bartender from the club
where Rachel works tells George and the police about the strange creature
that came into the club the night Rachel disappeared. They make a sketch
of the creature and publish it in the newspaper. When Dr. Humpp sends the
creature to buy more ingredients for his aphrodisiac, a pharmacist recognizes
him and calls George. The creature has killed the pharmacist and fled by
the time George arrives but the creature leaves behind the list of ingredients.
Taking the advice of the original mad scientist, whose brain he keeps in
a jar, Dr. Humpp goes to buy the ingredients himself. George is waiting
for him and follows Humpp back to his lab but he's captured and locked
in a room with Rachel. The two try to escape by overpowering the nurse
but their plan fails when the creature shows up. Luckily, Rachel is able
to distract the creature while George makes love to the nurse and convinces
her to help them get away. The nurse delivers a note to the bartender,
who immediately phones Inspector Benedict, but Dr. Humpp has sent the creature
to follow the nurse and learns of her betrayal. Humpp injects the nurse
with a solution that turns her into a mindless robot but he underestimates
the nurse's newfound love for George and the nurse is able to slip George
a gun. George tries to escape but the creature kills the nurse and carries
Rachel into the swamp. Finally, the police arrive and rescue Rachel from
the creature before cornering Dr. Humpp in his lab. In the final scene,
Humpp reveals that he was the original mad scientist's first victim and
has continued his experiments to find the secret of immortality. Dr. Humpp
attacks George and Inspector Benedict but Rachel stabs
him to death. Seeing his plans ruined, the mad scientist's brain flies
into a rage and bursts into flames.
Type of mind control: Aphrodesiac/Drugs
Mind control scenes:
Most of the
mind control in this movie involves the effect of Dr. Humpp's aphrodisiac
on the people he kidnaps. There are scenes inserted regularly throughout
the movie of the abductees engaged in various and assorted sex acts. There
is also Dr. Humpp's army of henchmen who are supposed to be mindless automatons
and the scene where Dr. Humpp supposedly turns his nurse into a mindless
robot like the others.
Subjective Rating:
2 out of 5
Having Dr.
Humpp give the people he kidnaps an aphrodisiac appears to be completely
pointless. Almost all the people that Humpp's creature kidnaps were making
out like rabbits before they were abducted, so having them continue to
have sex after they're kidnapped doesn't seem like much proof that Humpp's
aphrodisiac is actually doing something. As for his turning people into
mindless robots, he really needs to look up the definition of mindless
considering that, after being turned into mindless robots, his nurse slips
George a gun and his creature knocks him down and runs off with Rachel.
Dr. Humpp's mind control seems to be missing the entire control aspect.
The only ones who seem to obey the doctor is his army of henchmen and the
only thing they really do is get shot by the police at the end of the movie.