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A crazed Professor Levin goes to rather bizarre and extreme lengths to ensure his formerly disfigured young girlfriend remains beautiful, desirable and under his control.

This Italian Science Fiction/Horror epic is really quite silly thanks in large part due to the English dubbing and likely editing. But the film does work somewhat on a soap opera level and has some better than average transformation sequences. Actually it's quite entertaining but not always for good reasons. Still it was better than I was expecting.

The stripper Jeanette Moreneau (Susanne Loret) is dumped by her boyfriend Pierre Mornet (Sergio Fantoni) and she drives her car to talk to him. However, she has a car accident and the left side of her face is completely disfigured by horrible scars. She is approached in the hospital by Monique Riviere (Franca Parisi), who is the assistant and lover of Professor Alberto Levin (Alberto Lupo), and she tells Jeanette that her face can be restored.

Jeanette secretly goes to the professor's house and is treated by him, using a process that depends on the cells that Prof. Levin, who is also a monster that strangles his victim, removes from the women that he kills. While treating Jeanette, Prof. Levin falls in an unrequited love for her and kills Monique. Meanwhile, the police inspector that is investigating the mysterious murders, suspects of Prof. Levin.

"Seddok, l'Erede di Satana" (meaning "Seddok, the Heir of Satan"), a.k.a. "Atom Age Vampire", is a trash Italian horror film that combines "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" with Georges Franju's "Les Yeux Sans Visage" and the vampire of the messy American title. The result is a predictable film, with one actress that recalls Sophia Loren and the other that recalls Madonna. But anyway, it is entertaining and worths be watched. I saw the 87 minutes version and by the way, who is Seddok? My vote is five.

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A brilliant but overly obsessive scientist has to kill young woman in order to constantly supply his own beloved female patient with fresh facial cell structures, since hers was incurably damaged in a nearly fatal car crash. Nothing really new or innovating here, as this was quite a popular premise the in late 50's/early 60's European exploitation-cinema industry. The downright brilliant French milestone "Les Yeux Sans Visage" launched the trend and also Jess Franco's "The Awful Dr. Orloff" and Ferroni's "Mill of the Stone Women" revolve on a similar theme. This dark and mean-spirited Italian production comes out as very weak compared to any of the previous titles, mainly because of its cheapness and lack of credibility. The other titles had convincing and naturally evil-looking mad doctors in the lead roles, while Albert Lupo in "Atom Age Vampire" more looks like an amateurish clown, completely incapable of developing breakthrough medical treatments. The fact that he spontaneously transforms into a hideous monster himself doesn't really help, neither…In fact, that was rather awkward… Still, there are some redeeming elements that Euro-horror fans might enjoy: the atmosphere is sinister, there's some nice camera-work here and there AND quite a lot of gore and icky make-up art to admire (especially considering the time it was made and the non-existent budget!). Too bad these positive aspects can't nearly make up for the slow pacing and the total lack of tension. The dialogs are sometimes hilarious although I'm quite sure they weren't intended to be. For example, can you imagine a doctor saying encouraging words to his desperate patient like: "Oh my God, your case is worse than leprosy!!" Overall, I wouldn't recommend this film unless you're well trained in seeing trashy exploitation junk.

A young singer/dancer has a car accident and loses her good looks to several large scars on one side of her face. She is soon visited by a lady with a solution to her facial problem just as she contemplates suicide with a revolver. The lady takes her to a doctor working out of a lab in his basement that has come up with a drug/serum that will make her face all better and supposedly cause the young, beautiful girl to fall in love with him. Nothing real special here at all. The film is very Italian and cheaply-made, but it does have some nice camera work here and there. The acting leads are all hams(prosciutto)and way over the top in terms of believability. The fellow playing the policeman does do a fine job amidst the bacon around him! The film has a somewhat grainy quality and some poorly lit scenes, but atmosphere is created through the lens. Although the serum must have some component from a living-turned-recently-dead woman, the scientific premises used in the film are very big flights of fancy. I laughed quite a bit at the serious turn the film tries to make explaining that the doctor's work sprung from his experiences in Hiroshima/Nagasaki. The lines are uttered with little conviction and carry virtually no plausibility in them. Though a bad movie in many ways, one could do far worse as a means of entertaining oneself on a cold evening.

Having read comparisons between this movie and Mario Bava's films, I'd looked forward to seeing it for sometime. It's the story of a horribly disfigured woman who goes to a doctor for some unconventional treatments. It seems he has developed a serum that will restore the woman's beauty. But, the serum must be applied regularly and the supply soon runs out. As the doctor has fallen in love with the woman, he must do whatever it takes to get the ingredients to make more serum - even if that means killing other women.

Let's see, comparisons with Bava. 1. Black & white - so is Bava's Black Sunday. 2. Well, there really isn't a 2 as far as I'm concerned. Atom Age Vampire makes most other "slow" movies seem like roller coaster rides. I actually had to wake myself twice and rewind the movie. Also, while I'm generally one of those people that will defend dubbing in Italian movies, I can't do that here. This is one of the first times I can actually say that the dubbing got in the way of my enjoyment of a movie.

"An exotic dancer has a terrible automobile accident and, as a result, is horribly scarred, on her face. Hoping for a miracle treatment, the dancer visits a scientist who has had marvelous results in restoring patient's (sic) appearances, and is cured of her scars. Unfortunately, there are some terrible side-effects from the procedure … the scientist must use unethical methods to try and make the cure permanent. With suspicions (growing, and) the dancer's boyfriend and the authorities closing in…" according to the DVD sleeve's synopsis.

Inappropriately re-produced as "Atom Age Vampire"; this is actually an adaptation of "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde", with some other horrific clichés, quite neatly layered into the mix. Mad scientist Alberto Lupo (as Alberto Levin), unappreciated Franca Parisi (as Monique), and lackey Roberto Bertea (as Sacha) are an intriguing set-up. Horribly dubbed (although, the voices are good), and painfully predictable; it very obviously wouldn't be a completely awful film, in its unaltered Italian version.

**** Atom Age Vampire (1960) Anton Giulio Majano ~ Alberto Lupo, Susanne Loret, Sergio Fantoni

I love Italian horror, but this one just didn't have the punch that I am used to with Fulci or Bava. The premise was good, but it didn't deliver completely.

It was interesting anyway as a girl (Susanne Loret) gets disfigured in an auto accident and a mad scientist doctor (Alberto Lupo) promises to make her beautiful again.

The Doctor and his assistant work on the girl, but the results are only temporary and they are out of serum. That's when the Doctor's secret is revealed and he goes into action attacking young girls to keep his treasured beauty alive. The first to go is his assistant.

He has a way of transforming himself into a Mr. Hyde and back to Dr. Jeckyl. The girls old boyfriend and the police are hot on his tail.

Interesting tale, but Fulci would have done it better.

This 1940s Italian horror movie is lite on horror and long on story. There are good transformation scenes, and the dubbing and voice-overs are above average for most imported horror flicks, but the movie just kept going and going. The movie is about a beautiful stripper that has an argument with her ruggedly handsome boyfriend, and then gets disfigured in a car accident. She then falls into hands of a scientist and his girlfriend/colleague who have made a drug that can regenerate dead tissues. Unfortunately, a flaw is discovered, and the doctor falls in love with the young woman, and he ends up injecting himself with a chemical that turns him into a monster willing kill young woman so that the movie's starlet may stay young. But he, nor she, is what I'd call a vampire. I recommend it if you're a fan of the genre of old black and white horror movies, but if. And only if you pick it out of a dollar bin.

Most likely, the main reason this Italian movie was finally dubbed in English and shipped to the United States was with the simple hope that it might just begin to make a profit.

And that's just because this was the golden era of the drive-in movie theaters across the U.S. This one would be a natural for an all-night marathon where there's typically more action in the car than on the screen.

Finally, forget the dumb plot. There is a classic 1949 film called D.O.A. (Dead On Arrival) The cast includes Edmond O'Brien, Neville Brand and Beverly Garland.

Adam Age Vampire also qualifies as D.O.A. But in this case it's Death from Over Acting. But most likely, nobody in the back seat of the car cared and the drive-in was making a lot of money at the food/beverage pavilion.

How many times have excellent European films from the 1960's even up until the present been ruined by American distributors? Whether it's dubbing or the editing room, the European film industry has always been royally screwed by us. I think that this film and MANY MANY others have been horribly misrepresented and misunderstood. Unlike others, this film still looks good with horrible dubbing and when it's a badly edited mess. I absolutely love Susan Loret as the scarred beauty, she is the shining star of the production. The plot is very common in European films and is usually pulled off better, but the film does have potential, it just doesn't meet it. Anchor Bay, if you're reading, please consider obtaining a European UNCUT print of this, preferably subtitled so the dialogue can make a bit more sense. The cheap label ACME Video company offers the movie and the running time is marked as 105 minutes. This is doubtful, but the tape is usually only $10 anyway, so you might want to check it out.

Many of us grew up seeing this Italian horror flick on TV under its alternate American title, ATOM AGE VAMPIRE. The most readily available copies are truncated and badly dubbed into English, and ran anywhere from 60 to 80-ish minutes, despite it originally being something like 105 minutes. My review is based on rediscovering the movie through a recently released Italian DVD in its original running time and true title - SEDDOK, L'ETEREDE SATANA. The results are definitely better, as there is a new striptease scene added in addition to more dialogue (all of it in Italian) and extra scenes with the monster featured in the film ... but this is still only a so-so time killer for dedicated horror hounds only.

A gorgeous blonde stripper (Susanne Loret) has half her face scarred up after a bad car wreck, and so an older doctor (Alberto Lupo) who's been experimenting with glandular treatments manages to restore her beauty. But he ends up falling in love with her, and when the cure proves only to be temporary, the doctor must go out and kill other women in order to keep the restoration process going. Since he can't bring himself to murder, he willingly transforms into a horrible monster to give him the guts to carry out his diabolical intent.

If the bulk of that synopsis does not sound familiar, well it should ... this is not by any means a fresh idea, and most recently had been dabbled with in a superior French film, LES YEUX SANS VISAGE (1959). The film in its original length does seem somewhat overlong and padded, though in all fairness the Italian DVD is only partly in English, as the new scenes were never dubbed. And since it's not English subtitled either, we are still away from the "perfect" release to evaluate the movie in the U.S. **1/2 out of ****

Jeanette Moreneau (Susanne Loret) makes her living in the entertainment industry. This makes her boyfriend (Sergio Fantoni) mad; so, he leaves for the sea. She ends up in an auto accident and is burnt over the situation.

Along comes a brilliant doctor (Alberto Lupo) with a secret. He promises to put Jeanette back together again. In the process, the Doc falls in love with his patient. So now, his nurse assistant is only good from spare parts.

If you are wondering how the doctor decided to turn into a monster there are two suggested scenarios in the film: 1) He uses the previous generation of the serum that is known to create monsters that need to take periodic steam baths.

2) Monsters from Japan, which were created by the atomic bomb, sneak into the U. S. disguised as normal doctors.

Well, it is showtime, the police are getting suspicions and the boyfriend is back. Can Jeanette be permanently fixed before the doctor is permanently fixed by a police bullet or worse?

Like a previous poster mentioned, I also purchased this film for about 50 cents (USD). I wasn't expecting much from a DVD film that didn't even cost one dollar. It turned out to be a pleasant surprise! The change sequences from human to monster were amazingly well done for the time and the acting and dubbing to English were not bad either. Also, the late 50s early 60s black and white look and feel to the film was a plus. Many of the Italian made horror films I've seen from this era have a certain atmosphere and charm to them that is fascinating to watch. They often have a more bizarre or off beat story then USA made horror films of the same period. That's refreshing if you are a horror film fan like me and see lots of these movies hoping for something a little different. If you have the chance to view it, this film is well worth your time.

This is one of those that has been Through the Ringer. Cut and Cut again with Running Times Varying Drastically.

Most Prints of Worth are about 86 minutes and a 105 minute Version can Not Easily be Found and those are Italian Language and Available Only in Foreign Countries.

Anyway, the Dubbed 86 min Print (Public Domain) floating around on the Net and in Bargain Bins is Representative Enough.

It's a Horror Story of a Beautiful Girl Disfigured in an Auto Accident Rescued by a "Mad" Scientist who has done Research on the Hiroshima Event and has Developed a Supposed Cure for Skin Cell Regeneration.

There are a Few Highlights of Horror, the Makeup is quite Creepy, and the Story of the Girl's Nightmare is Handled with Pathos.

The Look of the Movie has a Norish Appeal of Dark Corners and Heavy Contrast and the Score is Appropriately Atmospheric. The "Mad Lab" Scenes are Effective.

Overall, Worth a Watch for Fans of Horror, Science Gone Wrong, and those who Attach to Heavy Melodramatics and the Lurid.

Note...The Film was produced by Mario Fava, NOT Mario Bava as some have credited.

I love Italian horror, but this one just didn't have the punch that I am used to with Fulci or Bava. The premise was good, but it didn't deliver completely.

It was interesting anyway as a girl (Susanne Loret) gets disfigured in an auto accident and a mad scientist doctor (Alberto Lupo) promises to make her beautiful again.

The Doctor and his assistant work on the girl, but the results are only temporary and they are out of serum. That's when the Doctor's secret is revealed and he goes into action attacking young girls to keep his treasured beauty alive. The first to go is his assistant.

He has a way of transforming himself into a Mr. Hyde and back to Dr. Jeckyl. The girls old boyfriend and the police are hot on his tail.

Interesting tale, but Fulci would have done it better.

"Seddok, l'erede di Satana" aka. "Atom Age Vampire" of 1960 is a cheesy but fun Italian trash Horror film with a bad reputation that tells a story very familiar to fans of 60s Eurohorror. Unluckily for this film (but luckily for my fellow Eurohorror lovers) "Atom Age Vampire" has a storyline that is almost identical to those of TWO fantastic films from the same year, George Franju's masterpiece "Les Yeux Sans Visage" (aka. "Eyes Without A Face") and Giorgio Ferroni's brilliantly atmospheric Gothic gem "Il Mulino Delle Donne Di Pietro" (aka. "Mill of The Stone Women"). Two years later, Spanish cult-director Jess Franco would create another highlight about a similar theme with "Gritos En La Noche" (aka. "The Awful Dr. Orloff") of 1962. "Les Yeux Sans Visage" is positively one of the most fascinating Horror films ever made, and "Mill of the Stone Women" as well as "The Awful Dr. Orloff" are also wonderful films that no genre-lover could possibly afford to miss. In comparison to these fantastic films, this "Atom Age Vampire" is incredibly weak, of course, but, as far as I am concerned, it is not awful and has its qualities.

As said, the story is familiar. An ingenious but nuts scientist is obsessed with restoring the face of a beauty who was disfigured in a car accident. And he has no scruples to commit whatever crime or insane experiments in order to make his ambitions a success and restore her beauty... Most of the performances are ridiculous and the plot line is considerably weaker than in the aforementioned comparable classics, but its still fun to watch. The film does have a certain atmosphere and morbidity, however (allthough not comparable to "Eyes Without a Face", "Mill of the Stone Women" and "Dr. Orloff", of course), and the makeup effects are actually quite well-done. The jazzy score is also quite decent, but it doesn't always fit in. Some of the character behave in downright absurd manners and the dialogue is often more than ridiculous and unintentionally funny ("Am I wrong or are you getting fatter?"). Logic is also not the film's strongest point, of course. So "Atom Age Vampire" is certainly a cheesy film that cannot compete with highlights about the same topic, but I still think it has a certain charm. Try to get hold of the Italian language version, the dubbing is terrible (which is not something that can be blamed on the film itself, in my opinion). This can easily be skipped, but it can also be enjoyable to my fellow fans of low-budget 60s Horror. Make sure to watch "Mill of the Stone Women", "The Awful Dr. Orloff" and especially "Eyes Without a Face" before this one though.

Atom Age Vampire is an Italian movie that is not, in fact, about a vampire. Tricky, huh?

It deals with people who have been disfigured due to cliff-side car accidents, the detonation of nuclear warheads, and other such everyday occurrences. Our antagonist is a mad scientist—I'll bet you didn't see that one coming—sends one of his aids to a local hospital to persuade the survivor of aforementioned car wreck to visit his estate so that he can test his cell-regenerating serum on her. The woman's face resembles ground beef, and it seems that this "doctor" is well aware of the fact that this is completely unacceptable. Actually, she'd rather commit suicide than survive as an outcast.

I mean, sure, society puts a lot of pressure on people to "fit in" and "look normal"; but the degree to which this theme is overblown in Atom Age Vampire is…well…almost comical. I say "almost" because it's so heavy-handed that even the actors don't seem to buy it as a viable subtext. Because of this, they neither take it seriously or approach it as hamminess. Quite simply, there's a whole lot of "dull" going on.

Did you notice the word I used in the previous paragraph? "Actors." Hmpf. They're mostly cardboard cutouts who sputter lines like "Oh, no! We should go to the police!" or "Let me go! I said 'let me go!' Let me go! I said 'let me go!'" I suppose that the intended tone for the dialogue could have been lost in translation—the dubbing here is atrocious to say the least—but there's no getting around the fact that the story is so moronic that had it been portrayed by any venerable stage performer of the past century it would have been regarded as the most high class display of deceptively simple gobbledygook ever created.

It really is that scatter-shot and downright confusing. Here are some highlights: the doctor who's developed the serum in question appears to also have been disfigured, though he inexplicably transitions between being a hamburger face to a scowling physician whenever the mood should strike him (maybe they were trying to rip-off Jekyll & Hyde?); he falls in love with his patient (and, it seems, a myriad of other women) and goes about terrorizing them in the middle of the night; he's assisted by a man-servant named Sasha who does little more than mime his thoughts and occasionally appear frantic; at one point the woman being treated is infuriated and closes (notice I said "closes"—she doesn't really "slam" it) a window shut only to have every square inch of the glass in the pane shatter; etc., etc., etc.

One could probably say that some sort of clever commentary is just begging to be identified; you know, something to do with the horrors of war; how "ugly" we all really are—that kind of thing.

But, in case I haven't spelled it out in enough detail, here's what I think: Atom Age Vampire just plain sucks.

This movie is a nice little twist to the classic vampire flicks. Its starts off from the get go into the action and the plot of the story. A very beautiful young women lands herself a nasty facial scar from a car accident. Devastated she contemplates suicide and then is mysteriously halted when a girl comes into the room to tell her that she knows of a way to fix her scar and make her beautiful again. Unknown to her the cure she receives may have possible side effects. This is the kinda Thriller/Sci-Fi kinda movie that is just really interesting to watch, the plot has a smooth foundation, and the actors are not bad either. If your a fan of vampires flicks, this movie may be a bit of an adjustment for you, but this is a more than decent flick that im sure many a person would enjoy.

This is really a movie you have to have an acquired taste for. It is slow at times, but the plot remains at ease. I would recommend it.

This is a good example of how distributors can ruin a movie. I have watched the 103 min original Italian widescreen version on DVD, entitled "Seddok, l'erede di Satana" ("Seddok, the heir of Satan"), which is a nice old-fashioned b/w horror flick based on a Frankenstein variation, with dialogs explaining the characters very well. But the movie was cut by a quarter of an hour for the export cinema version, ridiculously retitled "Seddok, der Würger mit den Teufelskrallen" ("Seddok, the strangler with the devil's claws"), and then it was cut by another quarter of an hour for video release. The fragment of what is used to be ended up under the title "Atom Age Vampire", and everybody complains how poor it is - well, if you tried getting the complete picture (both referring to widescreen format and its running time), you probably would have a better impression, although it can't be denied it is rather slow moving, and they wouldn't get away with this 'scientific' explanation of skin restoration anymore.