Tuesday, December 3, 2019

The Black Pit of Dr. M (1959)



Alameda Films (Mexico)
Directed by Fernando Mendez
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Casa Negra)

Two doctors make a pact that if one of them dies, he would come back to tell him about it. Sure enough, one of them does, but gives the other a warning that he too will die in exactly three months. Meanwhile, he must still run the insane asylum, where a patient disfigures an orderly with acid. While he plots revenge, the doctor falls in love with a younger woman, but she loves someone else. The doctor ends up in jail, falsely accused of killing the escaped patient. The real killer plans on confessing, but dies before he can. The doctor is executed from murder, but is reincarnated in the body of the real killer. The truth comes out, and the doctor dies a second time! Overplotted and melodramatic, but almost saved by occasionally stunning sets and oppressive Gothic atmosphere. 

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