The Man With Nine Lives (Behind the Door)

The Man with Nine Lives (1940)

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Man with Nine Lives (released in England as Behind the Door) is the second of Columbia's unofficial "Mad Doctor" series starring Boris Karloff. This time, Boris is obsessed with the notion that he can come up with a cure for cancer. To do this, it is necessary for Karloff to freeze his… More

Unrated,
Directed By
Genres
Horror, Mystery & Suspense, Classics, Science Fiction & Fantasy
In Theaters
Apr 18, 1940 Wide
Sony Pictures Entertainment

Critic Reviews

  • Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews

    It stars Boris Karloff at his deliciously insane best as a mad scientist.

  • Christopher Null, Filmcritic.com

    At first curiously intriguing, The Man with Nine Lives eventually becomes so silly that it's hard to take much of it -- if any of it -- seriously.

  • Tony Whitt, Now Playing Magazine

    The last 15 minutes, in which people finally start dying and Karloff finally gets really menacing, can't make up for the rest...

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