It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

Doctor X is a early example of one genre mixing with this movie could originaly be a mystrey and then they had the horror and comedy elements into it and the story in which trying to find a serial killer who only kills in the moonlight a Doctor will be put up to questioning professors at his instistue to find out if they re the killer and they are followed by a newspaper reporter who falls in love with the story and the daughter of Dr X. Lionel Atwill,Fay Wray and Lee Tracy are Dr X ,Joanne Xavier and Lee Taylor are the main characters who really show that a movie released in 1932 has a good as acting as now. The Supporting cast is Preston Foster,John Wray,Harry Beresford,Arthur Edmund Carewe,Leila Bennett,Robert Warwick,George Rosener, Willard Robertson and Harry Holman. Originally I thought that this movie was going to be a horror but then i watched it and it grew on me with the comedy and the romance and the way that the movie really has that erire tone is still there and for a movie that was relesed in 1932 i was very impressed with this one.

Entertaining pre-code chiller that was the first color [2 strip technicolor], talking horror film. Eerie, atmospheric, with some well timed humor as well. Ray Rannahan was behind the camera and Fred Jackman Jr produced the special effects. Both were outstanding. Michael Curtiz was Warner's top director and he came through Lionel Atwill played Doctor X and was his sinister self. Fay Wray was the damsel in distress and invents the "scream queen" role. Its Lee Tracy who is the star. Playing the anything to get the story newspaper reporter he strikes the right cord , of brass, sarcastic humor, and quick witted bravery in his portrayal of Lee Taylor. He really foreshadows Bob Hope' Larry Lawrence in 1941's "Ghostbreakers". The scene where he wants to use the pay phone in the 'cat house" is a hoot.After Universal released Dracula and Frankenstein in 1931 and made a bundle and the other studio's jumped on the bandwagon. Doctor X was based on a play Howard W Comstock and was Warner Brother's first attempt to jump into the horror genera.

. . . in order to watch his daughter being strangled? Someone said "It takes all kinds," but the team of freaks assembled by DOCTOR X plays like a geriatric version of the X-MEN. Whenever the title character "Dr. Xavier" can tear himself away from the Wolverine's shenanigans with his daughter Joanne, he's beating the bushes for the INVISIBLE MAN. In the guise of Clark Kent, SUPERMAN saves KING KONG's mistress from a Fate Worse Than Death. DR. JEKYLL has smeared himself with Henrietta Lacks to become MR. HYDE, and FRANKENSTEIN's not far behind. Clark keeps on greeting JACK THE RIPPER with a joy buzzer before changing the channel from BEACH BLANKET BINGO to BONFIRE OF VANITIES. This DOCTOR X is an evocative trifle, suggesting much but fleshing out little. Though color movies may have done okay 83 years ago without any shades of blue, clunkers and groaners apparently never go out of fashion at the American Cinema.

This movie was the archetype for the dark old house films of this era, with classic horror actors Fay Wray and Lionel Atwill in the starring roles. (Atwill never really gets credit, he was much a feature of classic horror films as Lugosi and Karloff, but only film buffs really know who he is.) The film was also famous for one of the first attempts to use Technicolor in a commercial film, albeit not successfully.The plot is simple, a number of murders with cannibalism have been committed (absolutely shocking in 1932 before the Hayes Code)and the suspects are a group of doctors at Doctor Xaiver's academy. (Must avoid X-men joke.) IN a rather convoluted experiment, Dr. X attempts to trap the killer using some fancy machine. It really borders on science fiction.this was before Hollywood movies fully understood the concept of tone and put elements of horror and comedy into the same film. And some of the acting and dialog was pretty corny, but keep in mind, they were only used to doing movies with sound for less than a decade at that point. In many ways, actors still acted like they were on stage in a theater, because cinema hadn't entirely developed as an art form yet.