Murders in the Rue Morgue (1971)
Recommended to mature audiences
| Director: | Gordon Hessler |
| Actors: | Jason Robards, Herbert Lom, Christine Kaufmann, Adolfo Celi |
Horrible fantasy mingles with horrifying fact in the story of a theatre of the macabre on the Rue Morgue in Paris. Madeleine (Christine Kaufmann), the wife of the theatre owner who also appears in the company's horror plays is plagued by a recurrent dream which re-enacts the current stage play. She dreams she is attacked by an unknown axe-man and is rescued by a near-human ape. In the real play her husband, Cesar Charron (Jason Robards) is 'beheaded' in a struggle with an ape as a gory conclusion to each performance. But then the company is beset by a brutal reality as one of the performers is found murdered...
| Status: | Normal |
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| Run time: | 87mins |
| Origin: | UNITED STATES |
| Aspect Ratio: | 16:9 |
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Lloyd
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For those expecting this to be the story of the locked room murder you in for a bad disapointment as this film is closer to Phantom of the Opera. A director wife has bad dreams of murder and then members of her horror show start turning up dead with an acid facial. The police led by an detective str8 out of the French version of the avengers(He wears a Steed like bowler in the same style as Mac-nee) tries to solve the murders. The acting is strong by all but the direction has way too many dreams interweaving thu the plot. Its true Nightmare on elm street had dreams but nothing as dull as these with the exact thing played over and over like someones bad loop dream. The effects must had been shocking for 1971 but they are tame by todays standards with fake effects and paint blood. The ending makes very little sense and is laughable. Horror fans must see this as a mild interest but there's way better films released around that time and they could do much better then this.