X - THE MAN WITH THE X-RAY EYES

X - THE MAN WITH THE X-RAY EYES
   Film (1963). Alta Vista/AIP. Dir Roger CORMAN, starring Ray Milland, Diana Van Der Vlis, John Hoyt, Don Rickles. Screenplay Robert Dillon, Ray Russell, based on a story by Russell. 88 mins cut to 80 mins. Colour.
   A surgeon, Dr Xavier, uses an experimental drug to develop X-ray vision and thus perform operations more skilfully, but the process affects his mind. He accidentally kills a colleague and hides in a carnival sideshow where he is exploited as a faith healer. His X-ray vision becomes a metaphor for insight into all the ugliness andsadness of life. A series of events bring appalling visions which alienate him progressively from ordinary, unseeing humanity. Finally he encounters an evangelist holding a religious meeting in the desert; when the man cries "If thine eye offend thee, pluck it out!", Xavier does just that. Though close to being a Poverty Row product (the special effects are notquite up to showing Dr Xavier's ability to "see through the centre of the Universe") this bleak film is sometimes considered Corman's masterpiece.
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   See also: CINEMA.

Science Fiction and Fantasy Encyclopedia. . 2011.

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