BEFORE I HANG (1940) ¢ ¢ ¢
D: Nick Grinde
Boris Karloff, Evelyn Keyes,
Bruce Bennettt, Edward Van Sloan
Karloff plays a doctor who's convicted of murder in a mercy killing just as he's about to perfect a serum that can reverse the aging process. Then, just minutes before he's scheduled to hang, he injects himself with the serum, only he uses a real murderer's blood. Then his sentence is commuted at the last minute and he's paroled and set free. Then the murderer in him really takes over and he starts to go around killing people. It sounds far-fetched and it is, but get past the suspension-of-disbelief part and it's actually a pretty good horror thriller. Just watch out any time Boris starts wringing his hands, or feeling the back of his neck.
