The Ape (1940)

Karloff plays a country doctor curing paralysis with spinal fluid he has to obtain personally, wearing a dead circus ape as a disguise. He is very kind to the patient. That is the awful part. Father Befouled play a hollowed-out, cave-lit strain of death metal that never once raises its voice above a moan. Two works about doing something monstrous out of what is technically compassion.

— PAH