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Horrors of the Black Museum
Horrors of the Black Museum (1959) is a British-American 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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was very popular and earned over $1 million in profits. Cohen estimated 72% of the audience for this sort of film was aged between 12 and 26.
Cohen says when the movie was released on television they had to take off the hypnotism prologue "because it does hypnotize some people."
The film was later inducted into the Museum of Modern Art at the behest of Martin Scorsese.
External links.
- "Horrors of the Black Museum" at TCMDB
- "Horrors of the Black Museum