Rondo Hatton's demise didn't stop director Jean Yarbrough re-cycling the Creeper bname for a completely unrelated film about scary cats a couple of years later.
Nora Cavigny is part of a team working on experiments with cats although due to a death on a field expedition in the West Indies her father wants to discontinue the work and Nora herself is traumatised at the sight of a cat. Nevertheless she is courted by the young doctor in the lab next door ( John Baragrey ) who wants to save her when people start dying around her.
The story has potential but the film is badly paced , badly lit and badly acted. There are too many red herrings for a sub-hour film and the special effects are risible.
Julie Vincent ( as Gwen )
Sex : No
Death : Clawed to death by the killer ( offscreen )
June was originally Dorothy Smith , a minister's daughter from Ohio. She had a film and then TV career that lasted into the mid-seventies often playing villainous roles. She died in 2008 aged 88.
Janis Wilson ( as Nora )
Sex : No
Death : Survives
Janis was from Santa Barbara. She was only 18 but this was the last of her seven films ( and to be honest her inexperience shows ). She later worked as a pianist and choirmaster. She died in 2004 after a stroke aged 77.
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