A disturbed doctor is obsessed with finding the cure for a strange disease and experimenting with his patients, who are slowly dying of their medical failures. Desperate, he embarks with his son on an expedition to distant lands to study the medicine of the natives.
Is it worth your time? If you have a thing for black-and-white atmosphere and don't mind a movie that moves at the speed of a snail, sure. It’s definitely for the type of person who digs old horror tropes. If you need pacing or logic, though? Stay away. You'll probably hate it. There’s this doctor guy, right? He’s cle...
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"Is it worth your time? If you have a thing for black-and-white atmosphere and don't mind a movie that moves at the speed of a snail, sure. It’s definitely for the type of person who digs old horror tropes. If you need pacing or logic, though? Stay away. You'll probably hate it. There’s this doctor guy, right? He’s clearly losing his marbles. He takes his son to some faraway place to find a cure, and it goes about as well as you’d expect. That is, not well at all. Eight years later, he comes ho..."
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