Other Titles • The Body Shop (1973) • Doctor Gore • Shrieks in the Night • Anitra • more
Synopses for The Body Shop (1973)
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Love Story…With Blood And Guts! The Doctor Is Out…Of His Mind!
The Perfect Woman. Some Assembly Required…
Deeply unhinged over the death of his wife, plastic surgeon and part-time mad doctor Don Brandon immediately seeks a new mate: " A perfect one. She must be beautiful. She must have everything!" Bypassing traditional courtship rituals, the love-starved lunatic first tries to bring a pretty corpse back to life by, apparently, baking it in aluminum foil with the Frankenstein-like lab equipment in the basement of his North Carolina castle. When that fails, Doctor Brandon becomes Doctor Gore as he switches to Plan B: custom-building the girl of his dreams from body parts severed from sexy young gals. Behaving like a stud version of Jack the Ripper, the creepy doc first seduces, then dissects a variety of women he dates, taking the most perfect pieces from each until -voila!- he's stitched together and brought to life a centerfold style creation named Anitra, "a beautiful newborn child with full maturity." But though he thinks he's created the ultimate love slave, Anitra has other ideas…
Released to Southern drive-ins as The Body Shop, this blood-soaked love story is the twisted creation of J.G. "Pat" Patteson, a one-time TV horror host, spook-show magician, producer (Axe), director (The Electric Chair), occasional actor (he plays the mad doctor under his stage moniker: "Don Brandon, America's No 1 Magician"), and production assistant to The Godfather of Gore himself, Herschell Gordon Lewis (Blood Feast), who obviously showed him the correct way to slice and dice.
Warning: This program contains violence, nudity and a really bad comb-over!
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