KRIMI! The Magazine

  This is such an odd movie. But let's start with the headline. Marianne Koch (A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS) is clearly the star of the movie and gives a stellar performance, making this strange hodgepodge somehow work. What is it? Is it an SF thriller, a marriage drama, a crime movie, a medical suspense thriller, the first movie about applied cryosleep, or a blunt criticism on how science works? Well, I surely don't know, and neither did, obviously, cameraman-turned-director Bernhard Knowles (MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR), who had worked for Alfred Hitchcock before and provides Anglo-American expertise together with scriptwriter Evelyn Frazer and co-star Mark Stevens, who was dragged out of his Spanish retirement for this movie.  So what is it about? Professor Stevens and Co-Professor Koch develop a cryo-longevity procedure that is ripe to be tested on humans. The head of the institute is all for it, but the head of the university is all against it. To prevent them from illegally conducting ...