Product Details

• Actors: Richard Basehart
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Trinity Home Ent
• DVD Release Date: March 21, 2006
• Run Time: 99 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000E5KQJ6
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #192,720 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

An insane surgeon finds himself up to his armpits in eyeballs after guilt prompts him to begin removing the eyes of abducted people in hopes of performing transplants on his daughter who lost her own in a car-accident he caused.System Requirements:Running Time: 99 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: HORROR Rating: R UPC: 692865341338 Manufacturer No: T-3413

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Pretty good horror flick with Richard Basehart, December 4, 2005

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GreatMovieCriticForever - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mansion of the Doomed (DVD)

This movie is prety gruesome but almost has no gore
or blood, instead by using some really gruesome
topics (eyeball transplants),a good music score
(though rather short and repetitive), and good
acting (Basehart plays it straight) this is a good
horror movie.

Gloria Grahame, the late Grahame who was a big
movie star at one point (like Basehart) is his
helper as the good old Dr. Chaney (Basehart) looks
for hapless victims to give their eyes for his
daughter who went blind after an accident.

His an accredited scientist who keeps misdoings
a secret, and lures people he knows including
another doctor (played by a young Lance Henriksen
early in his movie career), a real estate agent
and a prostitute to name a few.

He is only trying to blow his ego by proclaiming
new improvements in eye research which take a big
nosedive when his daughter starts rejecting
the eye donor transplants. Of course this doesn't
stop the doctor from getting more victims.

Of course that's another gruesome area as he doesn't
kill them, after plucking out their eyes he "stores"
them in his underground lab with other lab animals.

These scenes were the most chilling and most
effective as you see these people trying to get
out but not having their eyes provides a big
obstacle.

The ending is pretty satisfying though, and the
movie overally is good. I would check it out.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Creepy even if a bit hammy, November 3, 2007

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A. Griffiths "Adrian" (London) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mansion of the Doomed (DVD)

I was pretty impressed with this. Well the film has a lot to live up
to, being a carbon copy of so many other films in the small horror
sub-genre that might be known as "brilliant surgeon kidnaps victims and
operates on them in an attempt to restore his disfigured daughter to
her former glory". It's been done before, most notably in the beautiful
"Les Yeux Sans Visage", but let's not forget "Mill of the Stone Women",
"Corruption", "Faceless" and I'm sure I've missed a few.

But there are two quite good differences here: in this plot all the
duaghter needs is a new pai of eyeballs, and secondly, none of the
unwilling "donors" in this movie actually die after their surgery, they
are collected, caged and left to go mad!. Which makes for some of the
best parts of the story.

There are weak spots, however. Richard Basehart is pretty flat as the
twisted eye surgeon Dr Chaney (oh please...!) who has no thought but
for restoring his daughter's sight. He plays the role on a single note,
and give the character no sense at all of anything going beneath the
surface. At times I wondered of he had been studying the William
Shatner school of acting, as his mumbling and lack of impact got quite
annoying after a while. Also - the impossibility of the eye transplants
working is obvious very early on. Right at the start, Gloria Grahame
(as the doctors assistant/partner) cries "But it's impossible, it would
mean destroying the optic nerve" or somesuch agrument. The doctor never
manages to come back to her on that. And later on, in a scene that
actually made me groan out loud, a colleage sees a successful eye
transplant and gasps: "But how...?" Dr Chaney just smirks and says "The
real question is...why?" No - the real question really IS "how"?!! OK
those things aside, the movie does a good job. For all the poor
victims, it's a gruesome fate. Being drugged and then waking up in
a cage with both your eyeballs missing is a horrific idea and they all
manage to portray the right level of hysteria. There's even a great
close up of one victim's twitching empty eye sockets near the start.
Shame that later on the heavy browed "eyeless" prosthetics make them
look like a bit like they are wearing the "Scream" movie killer's
mask!! But the plight of these blind, caged victims is what makes the
movie. The fact that none of the actors could see through their eyeless
make-up probably contributes to their believable portrayals of panic.
In fact the character of the daughter almost disappears from the script
in the second half of the story, so small is her importance to the
tale.

The tension is well maintained though, and things move pretty snappily
-Dr Chaney seems to go through victims at an incredible rate. And if
you have any fears about losing your eyesight, I think this film will
definitely give you nightmares. Mind you so would the cover of this new Trinity DVD release - it's awful. Is it that hard to get the original promotional imagery on here, guys? This photo-shopped rubbish is just plain insulting.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars DARK EYES, April 5, 2006

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Michael Butts (Berkeley Springs, WV USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mansion of the Doomed (DVD)

A rarely seen movie from 1976, MANSION OF THE DOOMED suffers from a poor video transfer, but even state of the art technology can't compensate for the overall quality of this film. The late Richard Basehart (TV'S VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA) portrays Dr. Chaney, an eye surgeon whose daughter is blinded in an auto accident. He decides a total eye transplant will cure her blindness so he tricks her boyfriend (Lance Henriksen's screen debut) and removes his eyes, gives them to daughter Nancy and imprisons the now blind Lance in his basement. He is aided by his current wife, the late Gloria Grahame (a screen siren of the 40s and 50s). Nancy regains her sight, but it's only temporarily, so Basehart starts acquiring eyes from strangers, imprisoning them all in his basement prison.
The story's been told many times and this movie did mark the debut of makeup great Stan Winston and future director Andrew Davis (THE FUGITIVE). But the chills are few, although the scenes of the blinded prisoners is quite disturbing.