Chamber of Horrors (film)

Chamber of Horrors
Directed by	Hy Averback
Produced by	Hy Averback
Written by	Stephen Kandel
Narrated by	William Conrad
Music by	William Lava
Cinematography	Richard H. Kline
Editing by	David Wages
Distributed by	Warner Bros.
Running time	99 min.
Country	United States
Language	English

Chamber of Horrors is a 1966 horror film directed by Hy Averback and starring Patrick O'Neal, Cesare Danova, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Wayne Rogers and Laura Devon.

The film was released to theatres but was originally shot as a television movie^[1] and a pilot film for a proposed series called House of Wax.^[2] Danova and Hyde-White are proprietors of a wax museum in Baltimore who along with Tun Tun aka José René Ruiz are also amateur sleuths. They are drawn into the investigation of Jason Cravette (O'Neal), an insane murderer who kills a woman and then "marries' her. They help the police capture him but he escapes and vows vengeance on all who "betrayed" him.

The film used the gimmicks of the Fear Flasher and the Horror Horn to alert viewers to grisly moments in the film.^[1] Although made for television, the film was released theatrically because it was too intense for television.^[2] The gimmicks were added (along with a few star cameos like Tony Curtis, Suzy Parker, and Marie Windsor) to increase the running time. There are plot similarities between this film and Dark Intruder which released the previous year.

The film was narrated by William Conrad.

Chamber of Horrors was released on DVD by Warner Home Video in September, 2008 with a co-feature, The Brides of Fu Manchu.^[3]

Notes

1. ^ ^{a b} Allmovie, via NYTimes.com, accessed 29 September 2008.
2. ^ ^{a b} Horror-Wood.com
3. ^ BestBuy.com, accessed 29 September 2008.

External links

• Chamber of Horrors at the Internet Movie Database
• Chamber of Horrors at AllRovi
• The Bad Movie Report(http://www.stomptokyo.com/badmoviereport/reviews/C/ChamberHorrors.html)