La casa diabólica del Dr. Moreau

Searching for a hot story, a reporter joins a boxer and his girlfriend in searching for a missing friend of theirs and eventually stumbles upon a mysterious doctor harvesting victims for experiments in human/animal hybrids and must try to stop the doctor before they're the next victims.

Overall, this one was much better than expected. What works really well here is the interesting setup which works well enough on its own but has much more to like due to the period setting. That means the start of this one with the reporter looking for the big break and stumbling into the story by following the stranger from the nightclub becomes more intriguing once they find the strange mansion hideout. Offering enough twists through its inclusion of sleazier storytelling but keeping enough points from the classic story from how they stumble into the creatures, this becomes a decent starting point. This setup provides the kind of cheesy creature confrontations not just with the creations but with the doctor. The means of their capture at the mansion and subjection to the preparations that take place focus heavily on the sight and presence of the creatures keeping them in check while trying to figure out the doctors' plans. As this goes on, the finale where the escapes and double-crosses take place which leads to a lot of fun and bloody brawling involving the humans and the mutants left alive which has the advantage not only of the graphic outcomes but the effects work all giving this a cheesy vibe. These features are what manage to make this one enjoyable while there are some issues with this one. The main issue here is the films' penchant for speechifying over graphic creature carnage which causes several side factors to emerge. Not only does that approach keep the energy down and the kills barely noticeable for long stretches of time, but it also means that there are a lot of technical issues with the surgery glossed over so that it never really makes sense how they are preferred or how everything went down in that location undetected. As well, there's also the fact that this leaves us with long, uninterrupted looks at the animal masks being used which really aren't that convincing. These factors are what hold this one back.

Rated R: Graphic Violence, Graphic Language, Full Nudity, and Sex Scenes.

worst movie i ever saw. period. i am not kidding around here. i bought the movie used because i figured a movie with a pig-man on the cover had to be hilariously bad. me and some friends tried watching it but everything about the movie was so terrible we had to turn it off. the acting was poor at best. the characters were morons. (who would have sex with a pig man and expect it to keep a promise of freedom?) the monsters were inconsistent, in one shot it would be covered in slime-garbage and the next it would be dry. i actually had to force myself at a later time to watch the whole thing just to see how bad it was. i actually felt sick after watching this movie which has never before or since happened. this DVD became a thing we would trick people into getting it among me and my friends, i hid it in a big stuffed animal, sewed it back up and gave the stuffed animal to a friend. after awhile he discovered what i had done when i began to hint at it. he tried to get a family member to wrap it up and give it to me for xmas but my brother discovered the plot due to carelessness of my mother so my friend drove past another friends house and threw it on his lawn. it got back to my first friend somehow and he threw it in the trash, right were this movie belongs.

Dr. Moreau's House of Pain (2004)

* (out of 4)

Eric Carson (John Patrick Jordan) goes looking for his brother who has gone missing after visiting Dr. Moreau (Jacob Witkin). Pretty soon he sees the horrible creations caused by the doctor as well as getting lucky with the sexy panther woman (Lorielle New).

DR. MOREAU'S HOUSE OF PAIN is pretty much what you'd expect out of a low-budget movie from Charles Band. If you're familiar with Band's work then you should know what to expect here. You've basically got a very low-budget movie that is "borrowing" from countless other films. Obviously this one here is a take-off on the H.W. Wells but one shouldn't be expecting anything like previous versions of the story.

The film's small budget seems to have had most of the money spent on the actual look of the film. It's quite colorful and I must admit that it looked rather good. The biggest problem with the film is its overall tone, which is just bad and not all that entertaining. Even worse are some of the special effects and the creatures just aren't all that believable. Even worse is that you really just don't care about the lead character, his brother or any of his problems.

I will say that the one saving grace was the performance by New. Obviously she's a very beautiful woman and her nude scenes are a welcome but I thought she was also good in the role.

you know a movie is bad when the beginning credits are made using Windows Movie Maker software. The make up was horrible the acting was worse. My girlfriend bought it used so i wasn't too upset besides i like watching semi-bad horror movies so that i can have a little laugh, but this movie was so bad that it became frustrating. I think the movie was supposed to take place in the 30's but for some reason you really cant even tell. They should make murderers and rapist watch this movie everyday in prison as a punishment. Well at least they have stores that let you trade movies. Im just surprised that they would even give me store credit for this crap.

Dr. Moreau's House of Pain (2004) is a Full Moon Feature I recently watched on Tubi. The storyline follows a man looking for his brother who stumbles onto a clinic where human and animal DNA is getting mixed to create new creations. Once the young man stumbles into the clinic will he ever be able to get out?

This movie is directed by Charles Band (Puppet Master) and stars John Patrick Jordan (Them), Jessica Lancaster (The Forgotten), Peter Donald Badalamenti II (Bad Boys II), Lorielle New (Farewell, My Love) and Debra Mayer (Blood Dolls).

The storyline and era this takes place in had a lot of potential. The makeup and masks were excellent but the acting wasn't. The opening strip club scene and cat/human creature were gold, even if the cat's sex scenes were just okay. The soundtrack was very good also. There was some good kill scenes and gore sprinkled in throughout the movie.

Overall this is a fairly average addition to the horror genre that could have been better but is still worth a viewing. I would score this a 5/10 and recommend seeing it once.