Maciste_Brother I purchased this movie on DVD just for the heck of it. At the time, the DVD was pricey and I bought just because I like Something Weird DVDs and thought the title sounded awful enough to be one of those "it's so bad it's good" movies. Wrong. The movie (or I should say the "movies"), is just plain bad. Some trash distributors found this very cheesy Argentinian horror film, then inserted extremely unsexy sex scenes to the first said movie and the result is pitiful. The two separate productions are completely incongruous. For instance, the B&W cinematography are different and clash. The final result is not entertaining on any level.There are a couple of moments that do live up the "curious" part of the title but they're so brief and, in the end, forgettable that those scenes do not overcome the crappyness of the rest of the "film". If those scenes ever end up on Youtube, they'd be fun for a few laughs but they're not worth going through the trouble of purchasing this or even renting it, if you can find a place to rent it, of course.Check out THE GIRL AND THE GEEK (aka PASSION IN THE SUN) instead, which is provided by Something Weird as well, and is everything DR HUMP is not: totally zany nudie that's unforgettable.

EVOL666 Maybe I was in the wrong frame of mind when I watched THE CURIOUS DR. HUMPP. I really expected to like it more, cuz I can usually get into most anything that has a weird premise, a decent amount of nudity, some retarded looking "monsters", and a talking brain in a jar - but I found myself barely staying awake through most of this one...So there's a mad "Doctor" who's trying to capture the sexual "essence", a horde of his weird "monsters", and a talking brain that wants to rule the world. Yup, that sums it up...Seems that there's two camps when it comes to this film - those that love it for it's relatively racy and goofy themes from a film made in '67, and those that just don't get it. I'm with the latter camp. It's not a total waste of time and definitely worth a view to hardcore cult-film fans, and the women are quite luscious to look upon - but I just found most of it dull despite decent acting and a bugged-out storyline. Even such novel dialogue as - "I'm doing it to her - I can't stop screwing her" - didn't save this one from being barely more than watchable to me...6/10

MARIO GAUCI This is the kind of film which is more entertaining to read about than to actually experience: while reviews I've read mention several irresistibly bad moments, the actual feature is a bit of a chore to sit through! Its endless scenes of experiments (of a sexual nature) performed on a variety of young people (of all persuasions - given that here we find junkies, lesbians, strippers and nymphomaniacs) reminded me of Jose' Mojica-Marins' (that's Coffin Joe to you!) equally delirious if slightly more earnest AWAKENING OF THE BEAST (1969). The film was originally much shorter, as the U.S. version was spiced up with 17 more minutes of nudity - though this only served to render the whole even more boring! The reviews had actually described it as being a well-made film, but I didn't see anything special about its look or the techniques used. As a matter of fact, it practically quashed what interest I had in Vieyra's (apparently equally goofy) vampire flick, BLOOD OF THE VIRGINS (1967), released on DVD by Mondo Macabro! That said, some of the film's more bizarre images - the perpetually irritated talking brain(!) of the titular doctor's mentor (which he keeps in a jar in his lab), his rubber-faced monster assistant turning up at a nightclub (with the intention of procuring yet another girl for his master's experiments) and at a pharmacy (carrying a prescription by the doctor) as if it were the most natural thing in the world and is later even seen strumming on an unusually-shaped guitar(!!) - not to mention the howlers found in the script (Dr. Humpp spouting his crackpot credo or the orgasmic moans of the drugged but impatient maidens) yield some undeniable pleasures...even if only of the guilty kind!

Mark Carver The word 'weird' doesn't begin to come close to describing this bizarre Argentinian exploitation movie.Much of its content consists of couples (and groups) in softcore shenanigans, the monotonous nature of these scenes quickly sending the viewer into a comaThe intricate plotting, and bad American dubbing, do keep you awake long enough to see the fantastically bad makeup of the 'automatons', and lots of unintentional laughs ensue.Worth seeing for the banjo scene.