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The Horrible Dr. Hichcock (1962)

The Horrible Dr. Hichcock poster
Original title
L'orribile segreto del Dr. Hichcock
Directed by
Riccardo Freda
Genre
horror film
Country
Italy
Runtime
1h 28m
Rated
NR
Rating
5.9 of 10 from 72 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A doctor with a dark secret returns home with his new bride. The house holds shadows of his first wife.

gothicluridatmosphericmelodramaticcreepyeeriesuspensefulmacabre

What happens

The Horrible Dr. Hichcock (Italian: L'orribile segreto del Dr. Hichcock, lit. 'The horrible secret of Dr. Hichcock'; released in the United Kingdom as The Terror of Dr. Hichcock) is a 1962 Italian gothic horror film directed by Riccardo Freda, written by Ernesto Gastaldi, and starring Barbara Steele, Robert Flemyng, Silvano Tranquilli, and Harriet White Medin. The film was released in Italy by Warner Bros. on June 30, 1962. Freda's The Ghost, the following year, features the same leads and the surname Hichcock, but is not connected in terms of plot. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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