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 <[email protected]>
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
It's the early twentieth century in a small town in England. Twenty year old Doris Mann is the latest young woman to go missing from Hocombe Woods. Police Detective Sidney Bung, who along with his slightly dim sidekick Cst. Slobothom, get their first real leads in the case in that her companion, Albert Potter, who had been courting her for a year thus far without getting anywhere with her sexually, discovered a hairy finger in the spot where Doris went missing. To some extent, Albert's situation hits home with Bung as he has been married for fifteen years to cold-hearted Emily Bung, who not only harps on anything he does that is not focused on her, but in the process denies him any sexual favors. The leads take them to a house in the woods occupied by Dr. Orlando Watt and his seductive sister, Valeria Watt. What the collective of Bung, Potter and Slobothom are unaware of is that Dr. Watt is a mad scientist doing work on regeneration - he constantly regenerating himself from the dead - and that the Watts are getting their regenerated ogres, whose body parts easily fall off in the poor regeneration, to abduct the women to turn them into mannequins for sale. In Bung's own attraction to sexual charged Valeria, Bung, Potter and Slobothom could easily befall some dastardly fate at the hands of the Watts and their regenerated lackeys.—Huggo
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}
In Edwardian times in Hocombe Woods, Doris Mann (Angela Douglas) and Albert Potter (Jim Dale) are courting. Doris complains that she has an eerie feeling that they are being watched. Albert only wants to get intimate with Doris as they have been courting for over an year. Doris screams when she sees something in the woods and insists that Albert should go and look.When Albert searches the woods for a Peeping Tom, Doris is abducted by a monster named Oddbod (Tom Clegg), which leaves a finger behind. The finger is big and hairy and has a sharp nail attached to it, like that of an animal. Doris is 20 years old.
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. Doris is the 6th woman to disappear in this way.Sidney is married to Emily, who is a shrill and nagging wife. Emily laments that her mother did warn her never to marry a policeman, as Sidney is called away for duty at even odd times of the night.
The group travels to the woods, where Oddball was already looking for his missing finger. Slobotham remains at the car, while Potter and Bung go into the woods. Oddball appears next to the car, and Slobotham falls unconscious with fear. Oddball proceeds to eat the steel plates of the car, like it was food.
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 is a tall and weird looking man who says that the master of the house has been dead for 15 years.
Sockett informs the mistress of the house, Valeria (Fenella Fielding), of their presence. Valeria is in a relationship with Sockett. Valeria goes to a hidden room in the basement and awakens her electrically charged brother, Dr. Orlando Watt (Kenneth Williams). Dr Watt speaks to the three men as says that he is the master of the house.The men are frightened and run away from the house when Dr. Watt vanishes (and becomes faded and nearly invisible) when his electrical charge runs down and reappears when he is plugged in (Watt gave his charging plug to Potter before he passed out).
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 (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. Doris was abducted by Oddball and brought to the basement for this purpose.
Dr Watt's creations have the ability to re-generate themselves with only a body part, given sufficient electrical charge. Watt regenerates Oddball's missing finger by charging him with electricity.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 Doctor Fettle (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. Valeria sees that Oddbod junior is naked and figures out that somebody else has subjected Oddbod's body to an electrical current to regenerate his entire body from it.
Bung arrives at the house, investigating Dann's death but becomes infatuated with Valeria instead, when she kissed him right on the mouth in order to keep him distracted from his investigation. It is suggested that Bung ended up having sex with Valeria.
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. Potter claims that Doris had a birthmark on her behind, but Slobotham cannot find any signs of that when he is asked to check. Turns out Valeria is very careful in removing any birthmarks before they turn them into mannequins.Bung returns to the house and discovers evidence that links Valeria and Watt to the mannequin but remains oblivious due to his attraction to Valeria. He finds a "made in England" sticker box in Valeria's house, similar to the one he found on the Doris mannequin.
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 (Denis Blake), 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 sometime 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.
