[3] It stars Howard Vernon as the mad Dr. Orloff (sometimes spelled Orlof) who wants to repair his disfigured daughter's face with skin grafts from other women with the aid of a slavish, blind henchman named Morpho.

Franco would reuse the Orloff and Morpho characters in many of his later horror films, such as Vampyros Lesbos, Revenge in the House of Usher, and Faceless.

The perpetrator is Dr. Orloff, a mad scientist who wants to repair his disfigured daughter's face with skin grafts from other women with the aid of a slavish, blind henchman named Morpho.

[4][10] It premiered in Paris on 1 October 1962[1] under the title L'horrible Dr. Orloff and was released in the United Kingdom as The Demon Doctor in late 1963, with a "X" certificate.

[4] A 1964 review in The New York Times for a double feature of Orloff and The Horrible Dr. Hichcock stated "For once, the adjectives in the titles were not only descriptive but also accurate.

"[12] From retrospective reviews, Donald C. Willis described the film as one of many "mainly trivial variations on Eyes Without a Face", while praising the "lighting of the castle and the night exteriors".