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Release Date: 29 April, 2003 Retail Price: $14.99 OUR Price: $13.49 You SAVE: $1.50! Cast: Complete Cast (13 total) |
Horrors of the Black Museum Reviews
Shlock
Does anyone know the differences between this 2003 DVD release, and another a year later (2004), claiming to be a director's cut??? This one has more extras, but the 2004 release may not be cut. Just curious. Perhaps this film is now public domain.
Laughable, gimmicky, campy schlock "classic"
A gob-smacking camp classic with some great sensationalistic murders and plenty of bad acting. Michael Gough plays a misogynistic crippled author who has various women killed in order to boost sales of his lurid novels and newspaper articles. After each killing he hobbles over to Scotland Yard to gloat. One woman is impaled through the eyes by spikes that jump out of a pair of binoculars, another is decapitated by a guillotine in her bed, a blackmailer has her neck crushed by a pair of giant tongs and Gough's doctor is zapped by an electrical ray and then dunked in a vat of acid. Gough hams it up outrageously and often appears to be addressing an off-stage theatre audience rather than the other actors on screen. He keeps a waxworks chamber of horrors in his basement and has his weak, hypnotised assistant (whose face goes grey when in psycho mood) commit the killings. Poor old Shirley Ann Field plays the assistant's nice girlfriend whom the script mercilessly has stabbed to death in a carnival love-tunnel which no film-maker would have the guts to do today. For US audiences AIP presented this in "hypnovision" with a 12 minute introduction from a psychiatrist who explains about his craft and tries to hypnotise the audience. This introduction adds considerably to the campiness of what is an almost unbelievable experience.
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