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Horrors of the Black Museum is a British film of genre Horror directed by Arthur Crabtree released in USA on 29 april 1959 with Michael Gough
Horrors of the Black Museum (1959)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 29 april 1959
Length 1h35
Directed by Arthur Crabtree
OriginUnited-kingdom
Genres Horror
Rating58%
Horrors of the Black Museum (1959) is a British horror film starring Michael Gough and directed by Arthur Crabtree.
It was the first film in what film critic David Pirie dubbed Anglo-Amalgamated's "Sadian trilogy" (the other two being Circus of Horrors and Peeping Tom), with an emphasis on sadism, cruelty and violence (with sexual undertones), in contrast to the supernatural horror of the Hammer films of the same era.
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Frustrated thriller writer Edmond Bancroft (Michael Gough) owns a private "black museum" of torture instruments. He hypnotises his assistant Rick (Graham Curnow) to commit increasingly horrific crimes for Bancroft to write about.Actors
Michael Gough
(Edmond Bancroft)
Shirley Anne Field
(Angela Banks)
Geoffrey Keen
(Supt. Graham)
Beatrice Varley
(Aggie)
Austin Trevor
(Commissioner Wayne)
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