Paralyzed Melissa (Monserrat Prous, SINNER: DIARY OF A NYMPHOMANIAC) has been haunted by nightmares in which she sees her dying father (director Jess Franco himself, uncredited). She lives with her half-sister Martha (Loreta Tovar, NIGHT OF THE SORCERERS), her uncle Sir Henry (Jaime Picas), and her aunt Lady Flora (Kali Hansa, PERVERSE COUNTESS) at Fisque Manor. Psychiatrist Dr. Orloff (William Berger, LOVE LETTERS OF A PORTUGUESE NUN) confirms her suspicions that her family think she is crazy and offers to treat her. One night, she dreams that she has murdered her uncle. When he turns up dead in an abandoned car on the side of a road, she thinks she has indeed murdered him. Is her family plotting against her? Is Dr. Orloff trying to help or harm her? Produced by Jess Franco's own Manocoa Film company, THE SINISTER EYES OF DR. ORLOFF is a rather ordinary inheritance thriller (not unlike some of Hammer's PSYCHO cash-in thrillers of the sixties). Recurring "in name only" Franco character Dr. Orloff couldn't be farther removed from his usual haunts (stalking beautiful women to use various tissues and fluids to revive an ailing daughter or wife, usually named Melissa) but the theme of hypnotic control is shared by this film with some of Franco's other works like DIABOLICAL DR. Z, NIGHTMARES COME AT NIGHT, VOODOO PASSION, and MIL SEXOS TIENE LA NOCHE. The cast is made up of familiar Franco actors including Prous, Hansa, Berger, and Robert Wood, who plays a musician neighbor trying to convince Inspector Crosby (Edmund Purdom, a long way from THE EGYPTIAN) that there are weird things going on at the neighboring Fisque Manor. Later Franco muse, Lina Romay has a small role as Wood's jealous girlfriend. There's no nudity and the violence is tame, but it is entertaining to see these familiar, usually disrobed, actors going through the familiar scenario (more so than Franco's "The Cat and the Canary" adaptation NIGHT OF THE SKULL). Franco later remade the film with Romay as ALONE AGAINST TERROR.