Atom Age Vampire

Atom Age Vampire Italian Seddok lerede di Satana is a 1960 blackandwhite Italian horror film directed by Anton Giulio Majano and starring Alberto Lupo.

Despite the implication of its American title, the film does not feature an actual vampire. The titular Seddok is actually the brilliant but deranged scientist Dr. Levin, mutated by a chemical formula created using radiation. Dr. Levin studied the effects of radiation on living tissue in postHiroshima Japan, and created an imperfect and teratogenic serum, Derma 25, which he later refined into the miraculous healing agent Dermawhich he uses to treat the heroine. When his supply of Dermaruns out, he realizes he must kill to obtain more, and injects himself with Dermain order to become monstrous and remorseless, so that he may seek these victims without hesitation. Because many of the murders take place near the docks where shiploads of Japanese refugees are arriving, and leave behind the victims bodies with holes in the neck where Dr. Levin has extracted the glands, the refugees claim that a vampire whom they call Seddok, though this is not a Japanese name is responsible for the attacks. During a meeting with police, a restoredtohumanity Dr. Levin speculates that the Hiroshima survivors tales of a mutated killer are due to psychological strain from the radiation damage to their bodies...but also wonders aloud whether the vampire these witnesses describe might simply be a disturbed man wishing to be normal again.Several reference books state the film was produced by Mario Bava, which is incorrect. The producer is Elio Ippolito Mellino under the alias of Mario Fava. The script for the film recalls Georges Franjus Eyes Without a Face, which had been released in Italy several months before Atom Age Vampire. The film was shot at Pisorno Studio in Tirrenia. ........

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