Actuakers One of my all time favorites.

Pluskylang Great Film overall

Numerootno A story that's too fascinating to pass by...

Arianna Moses Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

Korbin Schwertl Measured by modern technical standards, this film is a blast from the past in every way.Watch this film in expectation of seeing a relaxing entertaining film. It's a bad film done very good. The story doesn't need much or lets better say any brain at all. It's a classic monster horror flick.It's bad acting at it's best. Even the almighty Boris Karloff doesn't seam to care about his performance. The set design is so trashy, it blows your mind.But all of that makes this film so mind blowing good. It's part of the Boris Karloff DVD Box Set, Limited Edition together with "Alien Terror", "Dance of death" and "Cult of the dead". I recommend this film as well as the limited steelbox edition.To all you classic horror movie and trash freaks out there, GET IT. It's a film like they don't make them anymore. Just don't expect to get creeped out.

JoeB131 Thankfully, he didn't live to see this turkey released.The plot is simple. A scientist (Boris) finds a living rock from the center of the Earth that promises the secrets to the universe, but requires the adrenaline of terrified women to live. He realizes that the rock is a murdering creature, and suffers an episode (excusing him from having to appear in the rest of the movie until the very end.) The rest of the film is filled by bad Mexican actors and strippers wearing granny panties. Which just goes to prove, illegal aliens are just doing JObs Americans won't do, because I couldn't imagine any American wanting to appear in this tripe.This movie would have been lost to history had it not had Karloff's scenes in it. It's too bad the Karloff estate, which jealously guards his image today, can't get this and other dubious works pulled from distribution.

JasparLamarCrabb Pretty bad, even for a Mexican horror film. Boris Karloff plays a scientist trying to keep a mysterious life form alive by feeding it a brain chemical released by humans when they're terrified. A promising idea, but a woefully put together patchwork of a film. Jack Hill wrote the screenplay and directed Karloff's scenes and they're spliced together with scenes shot in Mexico. Hill's direction of Karloff is pretty bland stuff and the Mexican scenes hold no interest at all, certainly not the few decidedly out of place shots of women being tortured. Isela Vega (electrifying in Peckinpah's "...Alfredo Garcia") appears as "Helga" and shows absolutely zero charisma. This is one US/Mexican tapestry that's shy of quite a few threads.

Witchfinder General 666 I recently bought a Boris Karloff DVD collection, containing four of Karloff's infamous last movies on two DVDs: "La Muerte Viviente" aka. "Snake People", "House Of Evil" aka. "Dance Of Death", "The Incredible Invasion" aka. "Alien Terror" and "The Fear Chamber" aka. "The Torture Zone", all of them directed by Juan Ibánez and Jack Hill.I was prepared for extremely trashy stuff, but after watching the extremely crappy, but extremely hilarious "Snake Peolple" I was sure I had found the epitome of a 'so bad it's good' kind of movie (I already wrote a review). Then I watched "The Fear Chamber", just to find out it is even a better example for how great awfulness can really be.Horror icon Boris Karloff's very last movie, "The Fear Chamber" was released in 1972, three years after Karloff's death. Not only am I a big Boris Karloff fan, but I also have utmost respect for Director Jack Hill for his great exploitation classics (like "Coffy" with Pam Grier for example). If you are a fan of unintentional comedies, "The Fear Chamber" should be your kind of movie.Near the earth's core, scientists discover a rock that is obviously alive! Hoping that the rock will reveal "all secrets of the universe", they bring it to a laboratory to examine it. But since the living rock feeds on human fear, they have to torture young women in a special fear chamber, in order to gain fear hormones and keep the rock alive."The Fear Chamber" is an extremely poorly produced flick and apart from Karloff and Isela Vega (who played Warren Oates' girlfriend in Sam Peckinpah's surreal masterpiece "Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia"), the acting is pretty bad too. The lab and the attached fear chamber look extremely ridiculous and resemble of the Ufo in Ed Wood's "Plan 9 From Outer Space". The movie's crappiest (and most hilarious) aspect, however is its script, especially the dialogue. The head scientist Dr. Carl Mendel (Karloff) assumes, for example, that the living rock could reveal "all secrets of the universe" and "the secret of our very existence", although none of the scientists seems to have the slightest reason to make such an assumption.This may be one of the crappiest Sci-Fi Horror flicks ever, but it is also one of the most hilarious unintentional comedies I have ever seen. The great Boris Karloff makes anything worth watching, this, however, also has a big value for it is probably one of the most absurd movies ever, and for its (unintentional) fun factor. If you had fun watching "Plan 9 From Outer Space", I can guarantee that you will laugh your ass of watching this. Very bad, But I loved it!