Horrors Of The Black Museum (DVD)

Description: Genre: Horror / Theatrical Release: 1959 / Suitable for 15 years and over / Director: Arthur Crabtree / Actors: Michael ... more

Horrors Of The Black Museum (DVD) ... Gough, June Cunningham, Graham Curnow, Shirley Anne Field, Geoffrey Keen ... / DVD released 2004-07-19 at Cinema Club / Features of the DVD: PAL

Newest Review: ... into her eyes. All the murders correspond to crimes in Scotland Yard's infamous Black Museum. The police investigate, but ... more

... there's general panic. A sarcastic crime journalist, Bancroft, castigates the police for their failure to catch the killer; but is there more to him than meets the eye? (Yes. We find out *very* early on that Bancroft is behind the killings.) This might well be the first horror film which just uses its flimsy plot as a framework from which to hang the set-piece killings. Although none are terribly gory by modern standards, with the real action taking place just out of frame, they are at least inventive, and most of the v...more

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	Horrors Of The Black Museum [DVD] [1959] Release Date: 2004 - 07 - 19, Rating Suitable for 15 years and over, Last Update 23.12.2009 05:48	£ 16.94

Horrors Of The Black Museum [DVD] [1959]
Release Date: 2004 - 07 - 19, Rating Suitable for 15 years and over,

Last Update 23.12.2009 05:48

£ 16.94

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Horrors Of The Black Museum (DVD): "Some day, you will go deep into the black soul of man, deep ... (861 words)
by - written on 11/12/08 (Very useful, 144 readings)
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A review of just the film. A DVD is only £3 from amazon. This is a British horror movie made in 1959. This was at the height of Hammer's initial success, and this is one of the first films made by a competitor to cash in on that. Hammer had introduced lurid colour and more explicit violence to the genre; Anglo-Amalgamated (this film's producer) decided to try and go one better. Horrors of the Black Museum was hated by critics (who, generally, weren't sympathetic to horror anyway). It's probably the first gimmicky bodycount horror, the kind of film in which the killer uses an inventive variety of ways to murder his victims. It looks forward to the ... Read the complete review

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