- The sinister Dr Watt has an evil scheme going. He's kidnapping beautiful young women and turning them into mannequins to sell to local stores.
- The sinister Dr Watt has an evil scheme going. He's kidnapping beautiful young women and turning them into mannequins to sell to local stores. Fortunately for Dr Watt, Detective-Sergeant Bung is on the case, and he doesn't have a clue! In this send up of the Hammer Horror movies, there are send-ups of all the horror greats from Frankenstein to Dr Jekyl and Mr Hyde.—Simon N. McIntosh-Smith <Simon.N.Smith@cs.cf.ac.uk>
- The sinister Dr. Orlando Watt has an evil scheme going. He sends out his plug-in, Frankenstein-like henchman, Oddbod, to kidnap beautiful young women. Once he has them, he uses a petrifying liquid to turn them into mannequins which he can sell to local stores. Fortunately for Dr Watt, Detective-Sergeant Bung is on the case, and he isn't very perceptive. He has his own problems with his wife Emily throwing fits about all the phone calls at night that take him to the police station, interrupting her sleep. Albert Potter stirs things up when he reports that his girlfriend Doris has been snatched. When the police examine the site of the disappearance, they find that one of Oddbod's fingers has broken off. Back at the police lab, a scientist identifies it as from an ancient forerunner of humans. He applies an electric current to see if the finger was recently alive. This stimulates the finger to regenerate a whole new creature - an Oddbod Junior. The police dress one of their detectives as a woman, hoping to catch the snatcher.—Garon Smith
- Young ladies are being spirited away in the woods by Oddbod, creation of fiendish Dr Watt. Henpecked Sergeant Bung is on the case, but an early lead comes to nothing with the ghastly drowning while at work of lavatory attendant Dan Dann. Bung does seem to be having success with Valeria and her very obvious charms, but completely fails to realise her sinister country house holds the key to the unimaginable horrors going on.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
- The film opens in Edwardian times in Hocombe Woods, where Doris Mann (Angela Douglas) and Albert Potter (Jim Dale) are courting. When Albert searches the woods for a Peeping Tom, Doris is abducted by a monster named Oddbod (Tom Clegg), which leaves a finger behind. Albert, finding the finger, rushes to the police station and reports the matter to Detective Constable Slobotham (Peter Butterworth), who in turn tells his superior, the henpecked Detective Sergeant Sidney Bung (Harry H. Corbett), who has been investigating similar disappearances in the same woods.
After searching the woods for further clues, the group stumble across the eerie Bide-A-Wee Rest Home and are shown to the sitting-room by the butler, Sockett (Bernard Bresslaw). Sockett informs the mistress of the house, Valeria (Fenella Fielding), of their presence, and she awakens her electrically charged brother, Dr. Orlando Watt (Kenneth Williams). Dr Watt speaks to the three men, who are frightened from the house when Dr. Watt vanishes and re-appears when his electrical charge runs down.
Basically, Valeria and her brother Watt have perfected some sort of technique to regenerate humans after their death, using electrical charges. Oddbod is one of their creations / an experiment even (Oddbod is a Homo Gargantuan species extinct for 500 years & Dr Watt has brought him alive to learn his secrets), whom they are using to abduct young, nubile girls from the forest and turn them into mannequins.
Dr Watt's creations have the ability to re-generate themselves with only a body part, given sufficient electrical charge.
The next day, Bung, Slobotham and Potter interview Dan Dann, a lavatory man (Charles Hawtrey), who once worked at Bide-A-Wee as a gardener. Dan had sent a note to Potter to come and see him for information on the missing woman. Dan is silenced by Oddbod before he can reveal anything.
Meanwhile, the police scientist (Jon Pertwee) accidentally creates a second creature-Oddbod Junior (Billy Cornelius)-when subjecting Oddbod's finger to an electrical charge. After killing the scientist, Oddbod Junior makes his way to the mansion, where Valeria and Watt are turning people into mannequins in the manner of House of Wax to sell. Bung arrives at the house, investigating Dann's death but becomes infatuated with Valeria instead.
The next day, Potter discovers Doris-in mannequin form-in a milliner's shop but no proof can be found that it really is Doris. Bung returns to the house and discovers evidence that links Valeria and Watt to the mannequin but remains oblivious. Believing him to be on their scent, Valeria and Watt uses a potion to turn Bung into Mr. Hyde and order him to steal the mannequin for them. After recovering the next day, Bung and Slobotham decide to set a trap in Hocombe Woods, with Slobotham disguised as a woman for bait. Bung's sharp-tongued wife, Emily (Joan Sims), follows, thinking Bung to be having an affair and is captured by Oddbod Junior, whilst Slobotham is captured by Oddbod. Bung, now teamed up with Potter, makes his way to the house whilst following their footprints.
After failing to dispose of Bung and Potter with a snake, the Oddbods are dispatched to deal with them. Bung and Potter are re-united with Slobotham and manage to return Doris to human form but discover that Emily has been turned into a mannequin. A battle follows, in which Albert (in Mr. Hyde form) defeats the Oddbods. Dr. Watt menaces them with petrifying liquid but is threatened by the re-animated mummy of Rubatitti, which has come alive following a lightning strike. Rubatitti and Watt fall into a boiling vat in the cellar, killing them both. Albert and Doris marry some time later, only to discover that Bung, whose home lacks electricity, is unable to return his wife to human form, and is now living with Valeria.
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