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''Doctor Blood's Coffin'' is a 1961 {{British|Films}} SciFiHorror film.

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'''''Doctor Blood's Coffin''''' is a 1961 {{British|Films}} SciFiHorror film.

Dr. Peter Blood is a medical professional studying resurrective heart transplants. Kicked out for violating experimental ethics, Peter moves back home with Dad. Soon, medical supplies start vanishing, then people do. Peter's got something cooking in his lab...
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!!This film contains examples of:

* AndIMustScream: Peter's victims are kept alive and conscious, but immobile, via curare poisoning.
* BigBad: Dr. Peter Blood, a MadDoctor who will do anything ForScience
* TheCoronerDothProtestTooMuch: Peter rules a local prospector's cause of death to be heart problems, despite curare being found in his system. This is because Peter killed the man, and doesn't want the death to look suspicious.
* EmptyShell: [[spoiler:It turns out the dead become this when resurrected, having no minds and becoming what amount to wild animals]]
* GoryDeadlyOverkillTitleOfFatalDeath
* KnightTemplar: Peter wants to kill anybody he seems morally worthless so he can resurrect those he respects. Thing is, he considers alcoholism a killable offence.
* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: {{Averted|Trope}}; Peter is encouraged to specialize instead of going general, and is explicitly stated to be a biochemist.
* {{Ubermensch}}: Peter considers himself a scientific version of this, willing to go where cowards bound by the Hippocratic Oath wouldn't dare.
* VillainOpeningScene: Peter being kicked out of Vienna for experimenting on a dying man.
* VillainProtagonist: We follow Dr. Peter Blood, a madman willing to break any ethical code ForScience
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