Mansion of the Doomed (1976)

I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

How sad is this?

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

I love horror and being scared and this one did it to me with lots of dread

Disturbing, gory and fine low budget shocker. A deranged surgeon, Dr. Leonard Chaney(Richard Basehart)is guilt ridden after his daughter Nancy(Trish Stewart)loses her eyesight in a traffic accident he caused. The doc decides to start abducting people at random and removing their eyes in hopes of performing transplants on his daughter. His disfigured victims are kept caged in his dungeon-like basement. With every transplant on his daughter she becomes more and more scarred. Disappointed and disgusted with her father, she manages to help release the eyeless people she has discovered in the basement. The disfigured captives seek revenge... successfully. Other cast members: Lance Henriksen, Gloria Grahame, Donna Andresen, Katherine Stewart and Vic Tayback. Sensitive and disturbing scenes prompt the R rating. Hardcore horror fans should be pleased.

"Mansion of the Doomed" is an obscure but good horror film, one which I managed to see in a theater when it was first released back in 1976. Strangely enough, the story about a surgeon descending into madness because he was the cause of his daughter's blindness, works on two levels. As the guilt-ridden Dr. Chaney (Richard Basehart) attempts to restore his daughter's sight, literally removing the eyeballs of unwilling victims and transplanting them, one feels pity for this misguided man. In his madness, Chaney also believes he will eventually restore the eyesight of all of his victims, which makes him even more driven. At the same time, the victims are all imprisoned in a basement cell in the doctor's house, where they, themselves eventually go insane. The horror element lies with the attempts of these horribly mutilated souls to both escape and exact revenge on their captors. The cast is very good considering the limited material they had to work with (most of the shocks are visual) and play their parts with feeling. Besides Basehart, there is onetime screen siren Gloria Grahame as his assistant. Unfortunately, she is given little to do, but it's still good to see her. Trish Stewart is the daughter who eventually realizes where all the eyes are coming from. And Lance Henricksen is her boyfriend (and the first victim). Well directed by Michael Pataki and broodingly photographed, "Mansion of the Doomed", despite it's low budget, is an out-of-the-mainstream terror film, which inspires as much sorrow as fear. A DVD has just been released, but the picture quality is below average, and the sound is just OK.

This is trash, pure and simple. But it's so bad it'll make you laugh. The fact that Lance Henriksen gets top billing, yet plays a very minor role, doesn't say much for the leads.Rent it and watch it after a night of hard drinking.