professor blake have a new toy . it seem that his university have just purchase a coelacanthe a primordial fish specie that be discover to still be alive in the 20th century . unfortunately for the doc and he doesn not realize that the fish be preserve use gamma ray . this combination cause the fish to have horrible property if anyone touch the blood of this dead creature and they and too and become primordial and dangerous . first and a dog lick the water that the fish come in when it arrive on campus . because there be blood in it and the dog become vicious and it teeth elongate almost like sabre teeth . later and the professor scrap his hand on the teeth of this dead fish and he become . well and we really do not see exactly what he become until later in the film but we do know he mean and look a bit like lancelot the miss link . oddly and while this professor be suppose to be super smart and it take him a long time to figure out what be happen . you see and after become a monkey man and he would later turn back to himself with no memory of his bestial transformation . later and when he do seem to understand what be happen and he actually deliberately inject himself to see if it be true without really provide much in the way of safety of others . sure and he go to a lonely mountain cabin to conduct this experiment and but sure enough and someone be nearby and ready to be kill . and and by the way and the killing be a dandy ( pretty cool stuff ) but sadly the makeup job wasn not . the monster we would be wait so long to actually see consisted of a cheap rubber mask and rubber glove and lot of hair . it be very disappointing and show that the budget for makeup must have be about $ 9 . 99 which be sad because the basic story idea and much of the acting be actually very good . oddly and while the mask be cheap and crappy and the transformation process at the very end of the film be excellent who would have figure . overall and a decent story idea as far a 50 horror film go . it very creative and unusual . it just too bad the creature look so stupid and the professor behave and well and like an idiot on multiple occasion . by the way and in a clever bit of writing and the professor make a phone call to a dr. moreau who live on an island . this be obviously a reference to the h. g. well story about a crazy doctor who dabble in make primitive creates very human like ( and vice versa ) .