Main Cast: Coleen Gray, Grant Williams, Phillip Terry, Gloria Talbott, John van Dreelen
Release Year: 1960
Country: US
Run Time: 77 minutes
Plot
An uninspired horror film by Edward Dein, this ragged story begins in darkest Africa and in the even darker psyche of a mentally deteriorating woman. June Talbot (Colleen Gray) goes on a trip to Africa with her husband Dr. Paul Talbot (Phillip Terry), only to discover that she is to be the trial balloon in one of his experiments on an anti-aging compound. Not willing to jump off into the unknown, the already unbalanced June kills her husband after she learns of a tribal ritual that will keep her youthful if she can obtain a hormone from the pineal gland of a human male. The problem is that she will revert back to a wrinkled woman unless she keeps replenishing her stock of the hormone. That, of course, leads to gruesome killings and ultimately, one disastrous mistake. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
Robert Clatworthy - Art Director, Alexander Golitzen - Art Director, Bill Thomas - Costume Designer, Edward Dein - Director, Miton Carruth - Editor, Irving Gertz - Composer (Music Score), Bud Westmore - Makeup, Ellis W. Carter - Cinematographer, Joseph E. Gershenson - Producer, Ben Pivar - Screen Story, Francis Rosenwald - Screen Story, David Duncan - Screenwriter
The Leech Woman is a 1960 Horror film directed by Edward Dein.
Plot
A mysterious old woman approaches Dr. Paul Talbot (Phillip Terry) and promises to reveal to him the secret of eternal youth. Following her to Africa, he and his wife June Talbot (Coleen Gray) witness the secret ceremony that utilizes orchidpollen and a victim's pineal gland secretions. June returns to the United States alone and proceeds to keep herself young by killing people for their pineal secretions. She becomes enamored with a man half her actual age, and kills his fiance to maintain her youthful appearance. Eventually the cops come to investigate the murders and June kills herself by leaping from a window.
