Boris Karloff stars as Dr. Julian Blair, and he's the same mostly good guy with a graying sense of right and wrong as he was in the last movie, The Man They Could Not Hang. The theme to this entire set, from what I could divine of the plot synopsis I read, seems to be:
Good scientist has a really important, good experiment to run. Something goes slightly awry, and leads him down a dark path to either peoples deaths or criminal acts. BUT! It was for SCIENCE!
This time, Karloff is practicing a way to read people brain patterns, and to possible then interpret that knowledge to understand what people are thinking. He hooks his wife into the machine and reads her brain pattern shortly before she dies, and then later, he notices her brain pattern is still coming through into the machine after her death. Does that mean he could talk to the dead?! With the help of an evil psychic, he'll sure try.
It's all well and good. Like the last one, it moves fast enough, and it doesn't even have the long trial scenes to slow it down. It has all the essentials a mad doctor movie needs to have, and the sympathetic feeling for the doctor is there as you know he just wants to do what is right.
I give it 3.5 stars.
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