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Title: Be careful, or your face will stick like that.
Review: This is a surprisingly lurid little shocker (for 1959), with a clever plot and some nice ideas. It just takes a smidgen too long to get where it's going, although the ending is fine.Due to the title and cover art, it is not revealing too much to say that Karloff becomes a killer, one with a rather scrunched-up face. These contortions seem appropriately gruesome at first, yet ultimately distract from the film. For one thing, for the movie to have us believe that these meager facial alterations would make him totally unrecognizable to those around him is asking a bit much.Still, some strongly dark atmosphere and intriguing storytelling are present. Probably worth a half-star more, but the bad slightly outweighs the good.
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