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  • Director: Jim Clark
  • AMG Rating: starstar
  • Genre: Horror
  • Movie Type: Psychological Thriller
  • Themes: Mind Games
  • Main Cast: Peter Cushing, Vincent Price
  • Release Year: 1974
  • Country: UK
  • Run Time: 89 minutes
  • MPAA Rating: PG

Plot

This semi-serious horror film represented the first on-screen pairing of icons Vincent Price and Peter Cushing, who play, respectively, aging former horror star Paul Toombes and actor-turned-writer Herbert Flay, who unite in an effort to revive the popularity of Toombes' screen character "Dr. Death" for a TV series. Having recently recovered from a nervous breakdown, Toombes comes under suspicion when several members of the show's cast and crew are murdered in grisly reenactments of Dr. Death's greatest movie moments (as depicted in numerous colorful clips from some of Price's AIP films for Roger Corman). Though it at times aspires to the level of Price's classic of macabre humor Theater of Blood, this film tends to stumble due to a middling script that dodges the opportunity to generate energy from the interaction of its two superb leads. Also known as The Revenge of Dr. Death. ~ Cavett Binion, All Movie Guide

Cast

Adrienne Corri - Faye; Peter Cushing - Herbert; Barry Dennen - Blount; Peter Halliday - Psychiatrist; Linda Hayden - Elizabeth; Vincent Price - Paul; Natasha Pyne - Julia; Robert Quarry - Quayle; Ian Thompson - Bradshaw; Jenny Wright - Carol; Michael Parkinson - TV Interviewer; John Garrie - Inspector Harper; Catherine Wilmer - Louise Peters

Credit

Tony Curtis - Art Director, Allan James - First Assistant Director, Jim Clark - Director, Clive Smith - Editor, Douglas Gamley - Composer (Music Score), George Blackler - Makeup, Ray Parslow - Cinematographer, Samuel Z. Arkoff - Producer, John Dark - Producer, Max Rosenberg - Producer, Milton Subotsky - Producer, Gerry Humphreys - Sound/Sound Designer, Danny Daniel - Sound/Sound Designer, Ken Levison - Screenwriter, Greg Morrison - Screenwriter, Angus Hall - Book Author

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Madhouse
Directed by Jim Clark
Produced by Samuel Z. Arkoff
John Dark
Max Rosenberg
Milton Subotsky
Written by Angus Hall
Ken Levison
Greg Morrison
Starring Vincent Price
Peter Cushing
Music by Douglas Gamley
Cinematography Ray Parslow
Editing by Clive Smith
Release date(s) 1974
Country United Kingdom

Madhouse is a 1974 British horror film directed by Jim Clark for Amicus Productions. It stars Vincent Price, Natasha Pyne, Peter Cushing, Robert Quarry, Adrienne Corri and Linda Hayden.

Plot

Price plays Paul Toombes, a horror actor whose trademark role is 'Dr. Death'. Years after a scandal ends his film career (his fiancee is murdered and Toombes ends up in an asylum, suspected but never convicted of the crime), the embittered Toombes revives his character for a television series. Cast and crew begin to die in ways that suggest scenes from Toombes's films (which are represented here by clips of Price's AIP efforts), and they all point to Toombes. Now, Toombes must find and confront the real killer, before he becomes the killer's next victim.

Premise

Based on a novel called Devilday (1969) by Angus Hall, the film is the last horror movie that Price made for American International Pictures, where he had worked consistently (mostly on Edgar Allan Poe adaptations) since 1960. Co-star Robert Quarry was being groomed to replace Price, but low-budget horror films fell out of fashion after the release of The Exorcist.

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