Review by cgvsluis

In the end I was a little surprised there weren't corridors of blood as the title implies. In fact it wasn't campy or as horror-filled as I was anticipating. I was pleasantly surprised to find this to be a more serious, if a little chilling, story of a Victorian England surgical doctor who is tired of performing surgeries without anesthesia.

"Pain and the knife are inseparable."

This hard working doctor not only works at a hospital, teaches in a medical school and has a free clinic he volunteers at weekly. Frustrated and desperate, Dr. Thomas Bolton starts using himself as a guinea pig testing his own concoctions in the worst scientific experiments I have ever seen. He subsequently becomes addicted as he has finally found a working anesthetic, putting both his surgical patients at risk and compromising his ethics.

Wonderfully acted, I recommend this to fans of early medicine, Bella Legosi and horror alike.