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FRIGHTFEST GUIDE: MAD DOCTOR MOVIES

DR JOHN LLEWELLYN PROBERT FAB PRESS

Sporting a), this lively compendium runs from 1908's to 2022's and features all the usual suspects: Frankenstein, Moreau, Orloff. The USP is that it's written by an actual clinician, who knows his stuff. A consultant urologist surgeon, Probert seems as happy discussing the unconvincing innards in 2009's as he does taking the, ahem, piss.

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