| The Horrible Dr. Hichcock | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Riccardo Freda |
| Produced by | Luigi Carpentieri Ermanno Donati Louis Mann |
| Written by | Ernesto Gastaldi Perry Julyan |
| Starring | Robert Flemyng Barbara Steele |
| Music by | Roman Vlad |
| Cinematography | Donald Green Raffaele Masciocchi |
| Editing by | Donna Christie Ornella Micheli |
| Release date(s) | 1962 |
| Running time | 76 min. |
| Country | Italy |
The Horrible Dr. Hichcock (Italian title: L'Orribile segreto del Dr. Hichcock) is a 1962 Italian horror film directed by Riccardo Freda and written by Ernesto Gastaldi. The film stars Barbara Steele and Robert Flemyng.
The story is set in 1885 and concerns a Dr. Hichcock, a necrophiliac whose horrible secret of the title involves drugging his wife for sexual funeral games. One day he accidentally administers an overdose and kills her. Several years later he remarries, with the intention of using the blood of his new bride (Steele) to bring his first wife's rotting corpse back to life.
Glenn Erickson has written, is his essay "The Horrible Dr. Hichcock: Women on the Verge of a Gothic Breakdown," about how "The outrageous central concern of The Horrible Dr. Hichcock has never been considered appropriate for any film openly advertised and exhibited to the public, horror or otherwise. That a film about the frustrated passions of a necrophiliac could even be released in 1962 is a censorial mystery in its own right -- or, perhaps, a clear testament to the way horror films were officially ignored on every cultural level back then."[1]
References
External links
- The Horrible Dr. Hichcock:Women on the Verge of a Gothic Breakdown
- Horrible Secret of Dr. Hichcock at the Internet Movie Database
- The Horrible Dr. Hichcock at Allmovie
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