
Devil Doll is a 1964 British film about a crazy ventriloquist and his dummy Hugo. It's directed by Lindsay Shonteff, he directed a few movies but the only other one I've seen is The Million Eyes Of Sumuru. The story for DD is by Frederick E Smith and the screenplay is by Ronald Kinnoch writing under the name George Barclay, and Charles F Vetter writing under the name Lance Z Hargreaves. The film was selected, and heavily edited, as a later Mystery Science Theater 3000 selection.

We watched the Double Feature Special Edition DVD with two versions of the movie. We watched the newly discovered "hot" continental version. The regular version is just under 81 mins and the "hot" version is just over 83 minutes. There's some nudity in the later. The IMDb has this to say.
The international version is different from the original British version.
- The opening and closing credits are different.
- The international version replaces two scenes with topless women with alternate takes, featuring them clothed or covered.
- The international version contains a scene which explains the motivation for Magda's murder, while the British version replaces this with a stage performance in which a woman is hypnotized and strips, ending up topless.
So what Gordon Films and Image are calling the "hot" international version the IMDb is calling the British version. No matter, there's not too much difference. Check out both versions and their differences in the links above.

That's The Great Vorelli and Hugo on stage, Bryant Haliday plays Vorelli, a midget woman plays the puppet when it walks. Vorelli does an ventriloquist act with a side of hypnotism. I didn't think much of Vorelli's act, he wouldn't be able to get away with hypnotizing the volunteer and making them strip down like that one lady.

William Sylvester and Yvonne Romain get involved, he's a reporter and she's his gal. William gets Yvonne to volunteer to go onstage at the show and get hypnotized. The Great Vorelli makes her dance wildly on stage but keeps her clothes on. William has a fascination with Hugo, who did he walk, that sort of thing. He gets Yvonne to invite TGV to her aunt's big society due. He comes and stays the night at aunties big mansion. That gives William some time to check out the dummy, all word, no boy. Hugo comes to visit William in the night, leaving him a clue to Vorelli's past.

It gets a bit crazier as the rest of the story plays out but it never makes me think it's much above average. It was still entertaining enough to get to the end. I bought the DVD and I'll keep it. I'd watch it again.

Unmasked Part 25 is a 1989 British film about a hideous serial killer that's also called The Hand Of Death. The Vinegar Syndrome Blu-ray we watched has that title on the actual film but not the box. The last scene in the movie ties in with the THOD title, the scene makes less sense with the UP25 title. Mark Cutforth wrote the screenplay and Anders Palm is the director. It was Anders first film, he directed two more that I haven't seen, then then he switched to producing stuff that I haven't seen. I'm not thinking, based on UP25 that I'll go looking for them
It's supposed to be a comedy but it fails to deliver on the jokes. The hideous murderer winds up getting involved with a blind woman and the movie spends the middle 40 minutes of the movie getting to know them better. It kind of takes the wind out of the movie's sails. It picks up near the end but it doesn't have that much to bring it above average. I didn't think I needed a copy of my own.