Arriving too late to see Orlof himself, chauvinistic Tanner makes light of Wanda's claim. Well, she'll show him. She dresses up cheap and sexy to act as bait for Orlof in the local nightspots. Orlof is keeping busy. He and Morpho visit a caf after hours, where a chanteuse is staying late for extra practice.
Pressure builds to solve the case, and the public is seeing fiends lurking everywhere.
She manages to send a note to Tanner before she's taken captive, but the fool's too busy tracking down leads to read it. Borrowing heavily from Eyes Without A Face , The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari , and Edgar Wallace thrillers, Franco nevertheless managed to infuse the production with his own twisted style. Orlof, Morpho, and Tanner would appear again also in many more of his films, if in name only. Franco, whose work is eccentric and highly idiosyncratic, is definitely an acquired taste. But it's a taste that, once acquired, is hard to get rid of.