Experimental doctor Ray Milland takes serum which makes him see under the layers of things, but at the same time gives a sort of triple-coloured, triple-duplicated image of things, giving the film a trippy effect which was no doubt of interest to drug experimenters (thus one experiment leads to others). It's a bit crap really, though the story following his accidental murder of a colleague, leading him to becomes first a fairground act, then a faith healer, is not uninteresting. Shot with the director's usual economy, most of the budget going to Milland, photographed by Floyd Crosby, music by Les Baxter with lots of theremin. Has quite an ending when in a religious tent he claims to see a mystical centre of the Universe, then plucks his own eyes out. Corman posits that the film's theme was echoed in 2001!
Scripted by Ray Russell and Robert Dillon. Don Rickles is the con man, Diana Van Der Vlis, Harold Stone and John Hoyt as medical colleagues.
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