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MovieMail's Review
With a leaping of electrical sparks in its crazed scientist's laboratory, Boris Karloff's second British feature after The Ghoul, The Man who Changed His Mind (it had other titles - The Man Who Lived Again, The Brainsnatcher - but it's very soon apparent why this is the best) finally makes its British DVD debut. A brisk and enjoyable 1936 B-movie horror, it has all that you might reasonably require from such a thing - though you get a feeling that the plumed Gainsborough lady at the start of the picture wouldn't be nodding quite so sweetly if she knew of the mind-altering experiments to follow.
Karloff plays the brain specialist working on 'a new conception of the relation of mind and body' - which is bad news for anyone who treats his research with less than the respect he feels it deserves, especially the newspaper owner who has provided him with a lab. Suffice to say that most of the lead actors are required to play more than one part, until Laurience's assistant - a strong female lead in the form of director's wife Anna Lee, restores order.
Catching the ear in our own times is the point the film makes about the danger of selling yourself to a press baron. Along the same lines, it has a wonderful one-liner too, when Clayton, Dr Laurience's bitter, chauvinist assistant is accused by Laurience of speaking of his experiments to the press: 'I don't mind dying' says Clayton, as he wheels his chair out of the room in high dudgeon, 'but to be accused of journalism...'.
A first ever UK DVD release for this rare 1936 British Boris Karloff film.
Karloff plays Dr. Laurience, a once-respectable scientist whose research has led him to research the origin of the mind and the soul. The scientific community has rejected him, and he risks losing everything for which he has worked - but then he is offered a lifeline - and the use of a laboratory - by the owner of a newspaper looking for a good story. But just whose brains is Dr. Laurience going to experiment on?
