This one is kind of a crappier version of director Jess Franco's earlier THE AWFUL DR. ORLOFF due mainly to the fact that it features a similar shambling robotic monster(instead of Morpho, this time he's called Andros). The plot here deals with Professor Jekyll(the original title was THE MISTRESSES OF DR. JEKYLL) killing his brother who was sleeping with his wife. Now instead of turning into some type of Mr. Hyde-like creature he just brings his brother back as the fore-mentioned Andros and sends him out to kill showgirls and strippers. Why exactly he does this I wasn't too sure of, but hey whatever floats your boat. There's a shocking amount of nudity here for 1964 that probably didn't make it to all that many countries that this played in. Franco himself shows up in a small part playing a piano. This is made a sequel to the first ORLOFF film by telling us the doctor, who came up with this way of reanimating corpses and turning them into zombified robot-killers(and who dies within the first few minutes of the film) is Dr. Orloff even though he bears no resemblance to Howard Vernon. Not essential viewing unless you're a Franco nut like myself. AKA BRIDES OF DR. JEKYLL, THE SECRET OF DR. ORLOFF and DR. JEKYLL'S MISTRESSES
Definitely more Frankenstein-like than Jekyll-ish!:
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