That people have to die horribly to repair the damage they suffer only adds to the gloom that hangs over "Eyes" like a shroud. The doctor's actions, while monstrous, are motivated by care for his daughter, who drifts through the film like a ghost. Though "Eyes" features a brief and heart-stopping surgery sequence, the film's horror is filtered through an atmosphere of suffocating sadness and surreal imagery. Lorre, who spends much of the film giggling madly or fondling a wax statue of Drake, pushes "Mad Love" into nightmare territory in a scene where he attempts to convince Clive that he is the murderer from whom he obtained the killer hands: sheathed in a metal bodysuit and neck brace, Lorre's Gogol looks like a steampunk prototype for the body horror that David Cronenberg brought to life several decades later. When her pianist husband (Colin Clive of "Frankenstein") loses his hands in a train accident, Gogol seizes upon a deranged way to win her love: he transplants the hands of a murderer onto Clive, who immediately picks up the former owner's penchant for knives.
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A brilliant surgeon, Gogol is also a raving maniac with an unholy fixation on Frances Drake and especially her torture victim role in a Grand Guignol-style stage production. Lorre, who had risen to fame in Germany with a disturbing portrayal of a child murderer in Fritz Lang's "M," was the perfect choice to play the film's antagonist, Dr.