One of the god awful Mexican horror films that Boris Karloff made in his final years and which were released after his death. Karloff was paid to shoot sequences for four films in Hollywood because Karloff was too ill to travel. These sequences were written and directed by Jack Hill who then handed the film over to a Mexican producer. The footage was then cut in with stories with actors who were filmed in Mexico and had nothing to do with the English footage. The result was pretty much truly awful films with Karloff seeming to have come in from a different planet because his performance was so much better then everything else. Here the plot has to do with some living rock found in a volcano deep that needs the hormones secreted by frightened women in order to stay alive. So the scientists make a chamber and scare unsuspecting women. Add in some other soap opera type stuff and you have a really bad movie.This is one of those turkeys that even bad film lovers like me stare at with slack jawed wonder and ponder if its worth continued viewing or if we should just hang it up. (not to mention its another of those films that makes you ponder why Ed Wood is the king of bad movies) For masochists or Karloff completeists only.1 out of 10
Review of Fear Chamber
