''The Leech Woman'' (1960)

By Crusader1307

 American Universal Studios refused to let it's title of ''Monster Maker'' (earned in the 1930s and 1940s). ''The Leech Woman'' was a 1960 attempt to keep that idea alive. It tried and equally failed in that attempt. Some cite the film as an ''awful example'' of over campy and cheap Monster Movie making and a worth inhabitant of ''Schlock Horror'' Lists. The tale deals with a Young'' Woman who approaches a Doctor – stating that ''She'' has found the secret of Eternal Youth. This secret deal with injecting the secretions of a strange plant into a Male (Human) only pineal gland. The ''victim'' is then killed (when the gland is removed naturally). The (it is revealed the Woman is 140 years old later) – consumption of which will give temporary youth and beauty. Seeing a chance to get World honored, The Doctor agrees to help commit murder in the ''name of Science'' to aid the ''Leech Woman'.

In an accidental dose taken from a woman (who ingested the plant), The ''Leech Woman'' mistakenly consumes the gland fluid of this victim. She immediately begins to show Her ''true age'', shrinking into a horribly disfigured human-like creature (and now able to be arrested by Police investigating the many murders in Town).