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Knowing Jess Franco's reputation, and having been subjected to his dire Flight X12 to Hell (or some similar title - I can't be bothered to look it up) I watched this early effort fearing the worst but was pleasantly surprised. The Awful Dr. Orloff is no classic, but it's not as bad as you'd expect. It probably ranks somewhere up there with a minor Hammer horror from the same period, perhaps. The guy who plays Orloff is eerily effective, and Franco manages to conjure up some eerie scenes and images. Perhaps the biggest obstacle is the character of the dimwitted police inspector - a kind of late Victorian Inspector Closeau who stuffs urgent messages scrawled in lipstick by endangered heroines into his pocket to have a look at while he smokes a fag before turning in for the night, and who needs the town drunk to point out crucial clues to him. This is no classic, but don't be turned off by the prolific Mr. Franco's unenviable cinematic reputation.
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