The Door with Seven Locks (1940)

Directed by

Norman Lee

Genre

horror film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 29m

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 22 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A detective investigates a strange house with a locked room. He uncovers a plot involving a hidden inheritance and a secret society.

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What happens

The Door with Seven Locks is a 1940 British horror film directed by Norman Lee and starring Leslie Banks and Lili Palmer. The screenplay was by John Argyle, Gilbert Gunn and Norman Lee based on the 1926 novel The Door with Seven Locks by Edgar Wallace. Released in the United States by Monogram Pictures under the title Chamber of Horrors, it was the second Wallace film adaptation to arrive in the United States, the first being The Dark Eyes of London (called The Human Monster in the US), starring Béla Lugosi, which had been released the year before. It was released shortly after the British Board of Film Censors lifted its mid-1930s ban on supernatural-themed and horror genre films. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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