SOUL OF A MONSTER-1944 –This seldom scene psychological horror story begins with a world famous doctor (George Macready) on his deathbed. His wife (Jeanne Bates) sends out a prayer to either good or evil to save him. Guess what? Evil answers the call in the form of a mysterious woman named Lilyan (Rose Hobart). Somehow she saves the doc but he becomes a detached hot head who can make flowers die and control thunder and lightening. He has no pulse and when cut he doesn’t bleed. The woman makes him kill his best friend and there’s a lot of talk. In the end good triumphs. This also seems to be attempt to copy one of Val Lewton’s RKO “specialties”. Screenwriter Edward Dein had worked on THE LEOPARD MAN.
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