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Torture Ship (1939)

Torture Ship poster
Directed by
Victor Hugo Halperin
Genre
horror film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 04m
Rated
NR
Rating
3.8 of 10 from 13 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A mad scientist captures criminals to perform psychological experiments on his private ship. The crew must deal with the dangerous consequences as the experiments escalate.

tensesuspensefuldarkclaustrophobicgrimsci-fi-horrorlow-budget

What happens

Torture Ship is a 1939 American science fiction horror film directed by Victor Halperin, based on Jack London's 1899 short story "A Thousand Deaths". The film stars Lyle Talbot as a mad scientist who performs experiments regarding "the criminal mind" on captured criminals onboard his private ship. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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