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Release Date:
March 1976 (USA) more
Tagline:
The Newest Edgar Allan Poe Horror Thriller! more
Plot:
The inmates of an insane asylum take over the institution, imprison the doctors and staff, and then put into play their own ideas of how the place should be run. full summary | add synopsis
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Cast

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Claudio Brook ... Dr. Maillard / Raoul Fragonard (as Claude Brook)
Arthur Hansel ... Gaston LeBlanc
Ellen Sherman ... Eugénie
Martin LaSalle ... Julien Couvier
David Silva ... Cult Priest
Mónica Serna ... Blanche
Max Kerlow ... Dr. Maillard
Susana Kamini ... Cult Priestess
Pancho Córdova ... Pseudo-Marshal (as Francisco Córdova)
Roberto Dumont
Henry West
Jorge Bekris ... Henri, the Coachman
René Alís
Mario Castillón Bracho
Oscar Saro
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Dr. Goudron's System
Dr. Tarr's Pit of Horrors
Dr. Tarr's Torture Dungeon
Edgar Allan Poe: Dr. Tarr's Torture Dungeon (USA)
House of Madness
La mansión de la locura (Mexico) (dubbed version)
The System of Dr. Tarr and Professor Feather
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Runtime:
99 min | USA:88 min
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Color:
Color (Eastmancolor)
Sound Mix:
Mono (Klangfilm)
Certification:
USA:R | UK:15 (DVD rating)

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Despite being a Mexican production and having a mostly Mexican cast and crew, this movie was filmed in English, then dubbed into Spanish for Mexican cinemas. The version released in USA, retitled "Dr. Tarr's Torture Dungeon", is actually the original version (not a dub), but in a cut form. more
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6 out of 14 people found the following comment useful.
Mexican Mayhem, 1 November 2005
2/10
Author: spasmo dunson (kzintichmee@lycos.com) from WestVirginia, USA

All the other comments already said what I was going to say, here goes anyway. I thought this was Italian at first, sorry about that, Italy. I wasn't bored because I kept waiting for something to happen. Who did that song about Dr. Tarr and Professor Feather way back when? Was it Alan Parsons? Saw this on a Brentwood 10 pack and the quality was as expected, terrible. Full of streaks and stuff. The movie was an incoherent mess. Goofy music and clueless characters. The main guy should have known in the first minute that the doctor was nuttier than the patients. I thought the "doctor" directing the "battle" scene was never going to end. Had some good looking babes though. It seems these dumb ass movies always throw in a naked chick or two and that gets you hooked. I gave it a 2 for the nekkid women. That bird people dance made me want to pull out my own eyeballs. Poe probably did about 3,000 rpms in his grave when this thing came out because it was loosely based on a story of his.

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