The Mansion of Madness (1973)

Original title

La mansión de la locura

Directed by

Max Kerlow, David Silva, Martin LaSalle, Juan López Moctezuma

Genre

horror film

Country

Mexico

Runtime

1h 39m

Rated

R

Rating

4.8 of 10 from 46 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A journalist visits a remote insane asylum in 1800s France. He soon discovers the patients have taken control and are forcing brutal experiments on the doctors.

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What happens

The Mansion of Madness (Spanish: La mansión de la locura, also released as Dr. Tarr's Torture Dungeon [US] and House of Madness [UK]) is a 1973 Mexican horror film co-written and directed by Juan López Moctezuma, in his feature directorial debut, and starring Claudio Brook, Arthur Hansel, Ellen Sherman, and Martin LaSalle. It is loosely based on Edgar Allan Poe's 1845 short story "The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether". Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington supervised sets and costumes. Set in 19th-century France, the film follows a journalist visiting a rural insane asylum in which he uncovers that the inmates have taken over the doctors and staff, and implemented a series of gruesome treatments. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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