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Overview
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Director:
Writers:
Angus Hall (novel)
Ken Levison (screenplay)
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Release Date:
March 1974 (USA) more
Tagline:
If Stark Terror Were Ecstasy... living here would be sheer bliss!
Plot:
A horror movie star returns to his famous role after years in a mental institution. But the character seems to be committing murders independent of his will. full summary | add synopsis
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User Comments:
I give it a 6 only for the stars more (29 total)
Cast
(Credited cast) | Vincent Price | ... | Paul Toombes |
 | Peter Cushing | ... | Herbert Flay |
 | Robert Quarry | ... | Oliver Quayle |
| Adrienne Corri | ... | Faye |
| Linda Hayden | ... | Elizabeth Peters |
| Natasha Pyne | ... | Julia |
| Barry Dennen | ... | Blount |
| Catherine Willmer | ... | Louise |
| Ellis Dayle | ... | Alfred |
| Jenny Lee Wright | ... | Carol |
| John Garrie | ... | Harper |
| Ian Thompson | ... | Bradshaw |
| Julie Crosthwaite | ... | Ellen |
| Peter Halliday | ... | Psychiatrist |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
 | Boris Karloff | ... | Clip from 'The Raven' (archive footage) |
| Michael Parkinson | ... | TV Interviewer |
| Basil Rathbone | ... | Clip from 'Tales of Terror' (archive footage) |
Additional Details
Also Known As:
Deathday
The Madhouse of Dr. Fear
The Revenge of Dr. Death
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Runtime:
92 min | USA:89 min
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Color (Eastmancolor)
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1.85 : 1 more
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Certification:
UK:18 (video rating) | UK:X (original rating) | Iceland:16 | Finland:(Banned) | USA:PG
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Trivia:
The Dr. Death movie clip played at the beginning of Madhouse is from the end of The Haunted Palace (1963). The voices have been dubbed to fit with Dr. Death. more
Goofs:
Revealing mistakes: When Paul is searching the house at night, the light of his candle is actually a spotlight, and it is does not keep very good pace with his movements. more
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[first lines]
Villager in Movie:
Dr. Death, where are you? Let's smoke him out!
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Movie Connections:
Features The Haunted Palace (1963) more
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Vincent Price plays Paul Toombes (sigh) who plays a character called Dr. Death in a series of horror movies written by a friend (Peter Cushing). His fiancée is murdered and he has a nervous breakdown. Years later, he's (supposedly) recovered and starts redoing Dr. Death...and a bunch of murders start up.
The teaming of two horror greats (Price & Cushing) and a semi-great (Robert Quarry) is a great idea. Sadly it doesn't work. Since it's an AIP pic it was made cheaply--and it shows. It's dully directed and it has an obvious, boring plot and a totally stupid twist at the end. Also I've never seen such boring murders in my life (it looks like a few of them were cut down to get a PG). And there's WAY too much footage from Price's earlier horror films.
Still, it's great to see Cushing, Price and Quarry all together. They give everything they have to the script. Price is great (as always); Quarry is amusing as a slimy producer; Cushing is criminally underused. There's also a very funny joke in a costume party segment--Quarry (who played Count Yorga, Vampire twice) and Cushing (always fighting vampires in Hammer films) come dressed as vampires!
So, it's almost worth seeing for those three. Almost.