Call it Mansion of the Doomed. Or The Terror of Dr. Chaney. You may also refer to it as Eyes, Eyes of Dr. Chaney, House of Blood or Massacre Mansion. But whatever name you choose to refer to this Charles Band-produced, Michael Pataki-directed movie, you will probably enjoy it. Seriously, it’s packed with sleaze, eyeball-removal, and plenty of your genre favorites.

Dr. Leonard Chaney (Richard Basehart) isn’t your typical megalomaniac; he is a man hollowed out by a singular, obsessive guilt. After causing a car accident that blinded his daughter Nancy (Trish Stewart), he transforms his basement into a makeshift surgical theater and starts cutting up eyeballs so that he can get his girl to see again, starting with her fiancé, Lance Henriksen and moving on to Marilyn Joi, who played Cleopatra Schwartz in The Kentucky Fried Movie.

Gloria Grahame — as Chaney’s wife — and Vic Tayback — playing a cop — are both in this, meaning that this is a Blood and Lace reunion. Pop the cork on that sparkling cider! Celebrate!

Frank Ray Perilli wrote this. He worked with Pataki on the softcore film Cinderella, plus he wrote the movies Dracula’s Dog, Laserblast, End of the World and Alligator.

Come for the stars, stick around for the Stan Winston effects and enjoy the craziness of Basehart as he goes from loving father to kidnapper of children to a man who has an entire group of eyeless victims just meandering around his basement.

This movie is pure scum. It’s even a category 3 video nasty, which means I had to watch it at midnight when I really needed to go to sleep. You can do the same and watch it for free on Tubi.