- Torture Garden (film)
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director =Freddie Francis
producer =Max Rosenberg ,Milton Subotsky
writer =Robert Bloch
starring =Burgess Meredith ,Jack Palance Peter Cushing
music =Don Banks ,James Bernard
cinematography =Norman Warwick
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language = English
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imdb_id = 0062384"Torture Garden" is a
1967 horror film made in the UK byAmicus Productions . It was directed byFreddie Francis and scripted byRobert Bloch . It starsBurgess Meredith ,Jack Palance ,Michael Ripper ,Beverly Adams ,Peter Cushing ,Maurice Denham ,Ursula Howells ,Michael Bryant andBarbara Ewing . The score was a collaboration between Hammer horror regularsJames Bernard andDon Banks .It is one of producer
Milton Subotsky 's trademark "portmanteau" films, an omnibus of short stories linked by a single narrative.Plot
Five people visit a fairground sideshow run by the sinister Dr. Diabolo (Meredith). Having shown them a handful of haunted-house-style attractions, he promises them a genuinely scary experience if they will pay extra. Their curiosity gets the better of them, and the small crowd follows him behind a curtain, where they each view their fate through the shears of the female deity
Atropos (Clytie Jessop).In "Enoch", a greedy playboy (Bryant) takes advantage of his dying uncle (Denham), and falls under the spell of a man-eating cat. In "Terror Over Hollywood", a Hollywood starlet (Adams) discovers her co-stars are androids. In "Mr. Steinway", a grand piano by the name of
Euterpe becomes jealous of its owner's new lover (Ewing) and takes revenge. And in "The Man Who Collected Poe", a Poe-collector (Palance) murders another collector (Cushing) over a valuable Poe manuscript - only to be avenged byEdgar Allan Poe himself.External links
*imdb title|id=0062384|title=Torture Garden
* [http://hollywoodgothique.com/torturegarden1967.html Film Review]
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