Nessieldwi Very interesting film. Was caught on the premise when seeing the trailer but unsure as to what the outcome would be for the showing. As it turns out, it was a very good film.

ActuallyGlimmer The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

Portia Hilton Blistering performances.

Sarita Rafferty There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

udar55 A reporter and a detective try to figure out who is behind a series of kidnappings of young couples making out. Their only clue is a hulking monster seen around town picking up girls and pharmacy orders (oddly, no one freaks out about when they see it). The man behind the mysterious abductions is Dr. Humpp, a mad scientist who is hellbent on turning humans into "veritable sex machines" to increase physical and mental performance. Wait, why is he a bad guy? Well, he also has the talking brain of an old Italian doctor in a bottle and uses fluid from his prisoners' libido (huh?) to keep himself young. This softcore T&A horror flick from Argentina is curious indeed. If you took out all the sex scenes, you might have a 25 minute movie. Lots and lots of shots of naked bodies (the first real line of dialog isn't until about 12 minutes in). This import does have some really nice B&W photography though and you'll be surprised at how expertly dubbed it is.

Scarecrow-88 Dr Humpp(Ricardo Bauleo) has almost perfected the formula for eternal youth and it's source derives from the removed libidos of those engaged in passionate sex. A newspaper reporter, George(Aldo Barbero), is on his trail, soon finding his hidden fortress, kidnapped, and forced into becoming a sexual subject, attempting to not only escape but help those captured as well. This plan won't be easy because Humpp has his secret estate/society surrounded by monsters, hideous human experiments which went awry, now robotic servants obeying his command. Humpp also is guided by his dead mentor whose alive brain(..kept in a jar with fluid)motivates him to continue on what seems like a potential success. Humpp's actually an elderly man using the extracted libidos to remain young, aided by his nurse(..and lover) Enfermera(Susana Beltrán). George soon falls in love with a sultry captive, Rachel(Gloria Prat)and desires to rescue her from their prison. Meanwhile the police attempt to trace George's steps before he went missing also following leads tipped to them by several witnesses who reported a brute with a ghastly face before they were killed by him. Humpp needs certain pharmaceutical items and his henchman is sent out to fetch them, soon having to kill the pharmacist who contacts the police based on a sketched facial diagram of a suspect provided to them by a bartender(Justin Martin). That monster also burns the human subjects once they are drained of their libidos and has a particular fondness for Rachel.Basically a bizarre concoction of the mad scientist genre and soft-core pornography. I personally found most of the sex scenes tedious, unerotic, performed rather zombie-like, and repetitive. The frank sexual dialogue is often so unbelievably blunt, it's almost hard to accept that the performers had the ability to say their lines without bursting into laughter. I think what makes THE CURIOUS DR HUMPP such a delirious experience is how serious the tone and performances really are. Bauleo is incredibly intense as the scientist, quite fanatical at times when anyone attempts to defeat his purpose behind using folks' passion as a means to remain young. Features a delicious striptease by Prat before she's kidnapped, and Beltrán is scrumptious as Humpp's assistant yearning for his affections. The sex scene between George and Enfermera is so odd because it occurs when she's drugged and he was about to attempt an escape, yet they just go at it without abandon. It's so surreal to see the kidnapped subjects just embracing each other as if they were elsewhere, not captured and doomed to perish. The sets are really cheap as is the monster's rubber mask, hairy gloves with claws, and black costume. This will all appeal to a certain audience who find such lo-fi junk entertaining. Veritably wall-to-wall sex with lengthly screen time devoted to people disrobing each other. Not short of trashy dialogue either while couples are engaged in their tawdry exercises. Frequent lesbianism which I normally fancy is so blandly performed I had a hard time staying awake. Luridly photographed in B&W photography, often quite voyeuristic as if an invited peeper with a camera was recording folks up close and personal. Director-writer Emilio Vieyran is less concerned with the police procedural aspects as he is with showing naked flesh gyrating in a state of supposed ecstasy.

johnnysugar Something Weird Video has made a name for itself by resurrecting forgotten exploitation films from the 50's, 60's, 70's and releasing them in restored prints for a modern audience. More than simply b-movies, these films are the most outrageous of the bunch, with one of the most interesting being "The Curious Dr. Humpp," released in its native Argentina under its original title "La Venganza Del Sexo" ("The Vengeance Of Sex"). Part science-fiction, part adult film, part morality tale, this is certainly a curious film that is surprisingly entertaining despite several rather distracting flaws.In the middle of the night, a hideous monster has been kidnapping people engaged in amorous activities, including a couple making out in a park, a lesbian couple, a quartet of hippie orgiasts, a nymphomaniac, a young man exiting a gay bar, and the beautiful stripper Rachel (Gloria Prat). Ambitious reporter George (Ricardo Bauleo) suspects something the authorities do not, and soon he is investigating the estate of the curious Dr. Humpp (Aldo Barbero) himself. Here he finds the doctor engaged in mad experiments and guided by a disembodied brain kept active in an electrically charged solution. Dr. Humpp believes the secret to eternal life lies in the chemicals produced by the body during sex, and he's been using it to keep himself alive. George is captured, and he must find a way out with Rachel before they become slaves to the doctor's whims.The film's premise is absurd, yet somehow it manages to sustain itself well given the film's tone and feel. The visuals certainly help, but not in the way you'd expect. While the cast, particularly the leads, are all quite attractive, it's the way the picture is filmed and not the flesh that makes it exciting. Writer/director Emilio Vieyra films the entire picture in a very lovely chiaroscuro that heightens and deepens the black-and-white imagery to levels of art. The direction itself is above average, with a few scenes -- most notably the oddly poetic image of Dr. Humpp's monstrous servant serenading Rachel with a lute -- being quite memorable. Where the film falls apart has nothing to do with the director, the stars, or even the picture itself. When the film was picked up by an American distrbutor, over 17 minutes of sex-and-nudity footage was inserted into the film not only to pad the length, but to ostensibly heighten the adult-film quotient. These scenes add the lesbians, the hippie orgiasts, and the nymphomaniac to the cast, as well as some highly erotic sexual imagery added during a telepathic copulation between Prat and Bauleo (as part of one of the doctor's experiments). While the scenes fit well in that they aren't too far off from the original's look to be distracting, they often add unnecessary sex to a film that's more interested in other things, such as the ramifications of the doctor's work and the societal attitudes toward sex.In addition to the scenes being extraneous, they often have the side effect of being unintentionally funny, which also distracts from the main thread of the film. The hippies, in particular, are quite humorous, especially with the exaggerated voice over work common of many erotic films of the time. The entire film has a serviceable, if not above average, English dub (the original was in Spanish) that works more often than it doesn't, at least in terms of language. To the American distributor's credit, the additional scenes are added quite well, and the dub is used quite skillfully to explain their presence.Despite these flaws, the film is visually entertaining, which is one of the best things one can say about b-movies of this caliber. Definitely one of the finer entries in Something Weird's catalog, alongside classics like "Satan In High Heels" and "Mantis In Lace", and definitely one for b-movie and vintage exploitation enthusiasts. Others may not find as much to enjoy, and for those, I suggest you get in the front row with the robots and start your mocking. So, something for everybody. 6 out of 10.

splittter An extremely strange film in that it is ten times better than it had any right to be. The script and story is usual b-movie rubbish, and the acting is adequate at best (the dubbing is of course terrible), however some genuine talent behind the camera make this watchable throughout. Eschewing the usual b-movie tricks like ludicrous music, fast zooms and an indulgence of s**t acting to advance the story, the director concentrates instead on extended set pieces (in one case a strange lute playing sequence) which he stages extremely well. It reminded me of the French horror movies of Rollin, where extended scenes, slow, languid camera work and a healthy dollop of sex play a large part.Obviously this is still a b-movie, and when the plot has to kick in at the end it is predictably terrible. They do have a dig at their own crap effects with someone mistaking the monster for a man in a mask, but it's not clear if this was deliberate or just a case of bad scriptwriting. Not good by any stretch of the imagination, but significantly better than the average, usually unwatchable, exploitation film.