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Describes the intimate and external journey of a young man who struggles to confront his sadomasochistic obsessions. While on a remote Canadian island, he is violently haunted by dreamlike images from his childhood and an affair with a radiologist who he supposes is trying to peer inside. The origin of the complex psychic panorama of the protagonist is homosexual violence. X-Ray received a full grant from the American Film Institute.
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In 1840s London, Dr. Thomas Bolton [Boris Karloff] dares to dream the unthinkable: experimenting with anesthesia gases to make surgery pain-free. While doing so, his demonstration before a panel of his peers ends in a horrific mishap with his patient awakening under the knife; he is forced to leave his position in disgrace. To complicate matters, he becomes addicted to his own chemical experiments and gets involved with a criminal gang led by Black Ben [Francis de Wolff], and a ruthless killer Resurrection Joe [Christopher Lee]. Unfortunately, this shady partnership leads Dr. Bolton to further ruin, culminating in his unwitting participation in murder — for which he becomes the first victim of a blackmail scheme.