Doctor of Horror story
Richard and Charlie are two bumbling security guards who work in a morgue. After discovering mad scientist Dr. Orloff attempting to steal a corpse, the doctor explains to the guards on how he believes, if done in just the right way, souls can be extracted from the recently deceased, having been stealing bodies in his quest to obtain one. After Orloff pays the two guards a large amount of money to steal and later dump corpses for him, Charlie begins having doubts about whether what they're doing is right or not, prompting Richard to decide that Charlie must have quite a soul himself. Directed by: Larry Wilson. Story by: Larry Wilson.
15 total · 12 major · 3 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| desire vs. conscience | major | Central to the story was the hapless Charlie's struggle with his conscience over assisting in depriving people of their souls for monetary gain. |
| greed for riches | major | Richard and Charlie turned to body snatching to make a quick buck without a second thought. Richard later greedily tried to intimidate his benefactor into giving him a raise. |
| living corpse | major | Charlie returned from the dead. The story is presented by the Crypt Keeper, a cackling, wisecracking cadaver. |
| obsession with a life-dedicated project | major | Dr. Orloff was convinced that the soul resided as a tiny gland within the human body. His maniacal dedication to validating his theory led him to serially purloin bodies for dissection. |
| partners in crime | major | The story follows two morgue security guards, Richard and Charlie, as they take on a side hustle of peddling corpses to a local mad scientist. |
| the human capacity for good and evil | major | The viewer is left to conclude that Charlie lost all morality once his soul was separated from his body. Charlie's soul shone with a blindly bright light as a sign of his virtuousness. He became evil after Dr. Orloff excised his soul. |
| the soul | major | The story turns on Dr. Orloff and his maniacal obsession with proving that, unbeknownst to medical science, the soul resided as a tiny gland within the human body. |
| the thirst for knowledge | major | Dr. Orloff was driven by a desire to discover the seat of the soul inside the human body. |
| vengeance from beyond the grave | major | Charlie returned from the dead to settle a score about his purloined soul. |
| wicked character vs. virtuous character | major | Richard was remorseless and greedy as he assisted in Dr. Orloff's unholy pursuits. Charlie, by marked contrast, had a strong conscience despite his lack of wits. This was pointedly made clear when we saw his extracted soul shine blindingly bright, and Dr. Orloff commented on it. |