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Chamber of Horrors

  • 19661966
  • UnratedUnrated
  • 1h 20m
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6.0/10
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Chamber of Horrors (1966)
A one-handed madman (he lost the hand while escaping a hanging) uses various detachable devices as murder weapons to gain revenge on those he believes have wronged him.
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A one-handed madman (he lost the hand while escaping a hanging) uses various detachable devices as murder weapons to gain revenge on those he believes have wronged him.A one-handed madman (he lost the hand while escaping a hanging) uses various detachable devices as murder weapons to gain revenge on those he believes have wronged him.A one-handed madman (he lost the hand while escaping a hanging) uses various detachable devices as murder weapons to gain revenge on those he believes have wronged him.
IMDb RATING
6.0/10
1.2K
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
48,687
5,478
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    • Director
      • Hy Averback
    • Writers
      • Stephen Kandel(screenplay)
      • Ray Russell(story)
    • Stars
      • Patrick O'Neal
      • Cesare Danova
      • Wilfrid Hyde-White
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    • Director
      • Hy Averback
    • Writers
      • Stephen Kandel(screenplay)
      • Ray Russell(story)
    • Stars
      • Patrick O'Neal
      • Cesare Danova
      • Wilfrid Hyde-White
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 32User reviews
    • 28Critic reviews

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    Photos26

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    Patrick O'Neal in Chamber of Horrors (1966)
    Suzy Parker in Chamber of Horrors (1966)
    Cesare Danova, Suzy Parker, and Fredd Wayne in Chamber of Horrors (1966)
    Cesare Danova, Laura Devon, and Wilfrid Hyde-White in Chamber of Horrors (1966)
    Patrick O'Neal in Chamber of Horrors (1966)
    Cesare Danova and Patrice Wymore in Chamber of Horrors (1966)
    Philip Bourneuf, Cesare Danova, Wilfrid Hyde-White, and Wayne Rogers in Chamber of Horrors (1966)
    Tony Curtis and Marie Windsor in Chamber of Horrors (1966)
    José René Ruiz and Marie Windsor in Chamber of Horrors (1966)
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    Patrick O'Neal
    Patrick O'Neal
    • Jason Cravatte aka Jason Caroll
    Cesare Danova
    Cesare Danova
    • Anthony Draco
    Wilfrid Hyde-White
    Wilfrid Hyde-White
    • Harold Blount
    Laura Devon
    Laura Devon
    • Marie Champlain
    Patrice Wymore
    Patrice Wymore
    • Vivian (Delano's hostess)
    Suzy Parker
    Suzy Parker
    • Barbara Dixon
    José René Ruiz
    • Senor Pepe De Reyes
    • (as Tun Tun)
    Philip Bourneuf
    Philip Bourneuf
    • Insp. Matthew Strudwick
    Jeanette Nolan
    Jeanette Nolan
    • Mrs. Ewing Perryman
    Marie Windsor
    Marie Windsor
    • Madame Corona
    Wayne Rogers
    Wayne Rogers
    • Police Sgt. Jim Albertson
    Vinton Hayworth
    Vinton Hayworth
    • Judge Walter Randolph
    Richard O'Brien
    • Dr. Romulus Cobb
    Inger Stratton
    Inger Stratton
    • Gloria (one of Corona's girls)
    Berry Kroeger
    Berry Kroeger
    • Chun Sing
    Charles Seel
    Charles Seel
    • Rev. Dr. Hopewell
    Ayllene Gibbons
    • Victoria the Barmaid
    Leon Alton
    Leon Alton
    • Tour Group Member
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Hy Averback
    • Writers
      • Stephen Kandel(screenplay) (story)
      • Ray Russell(story)
    • All cast & crew
    • Production, box office & more at IMDbPro

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    Storyline

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    • Trivia
      This was a pilot for a period detective television program from Warner Bros. entitled "House of Wax", based on the 1953 film of the same title, padded out with various gimmicks including the red "fear flash" and "horror horn", several added sequences and guest stars with a larger screen in mind because it was considered too intense at that time for television.
    • Goofs
      When Jason places the "bride" victim on the bed near the beginning of the film, in close-up her eyes are gazing straight up and her mouth is slightly open. But, in the next shot, her gaze is lower and her mouth is practically closed. Also, the pillows around her head change.
    • Quotes

      Harold Blount: His study?

      Anthony Draco: Yes, the judge studies women

      Anthony Draco: It's a Randolph family tradition

      Anthony Draco: High standards in low wenches

    • Crazy credits
      Although he played a major character in the film, Patrick O'Neal's name does not appear in the ending credits.
    • Alternate versions
      Produced as a TV series pilot, this film was determined to be too violent for the small screen and given theatrical distribution instead. Added for this release was an exploitation device called the "Fear Flasher/Horror Horn", ostensibly to warn the audience of the "Four Supreme Fright Points" (although it was not applied to the picture's most explicitly violent moment, the climactic fate of the villain). This device was explained in an introductory sequence narrated by William Conrad. Upon first showing on US network television, both the device and its explanation were deleted, but in subsequent syndication to local stations in the 1970s and '80s, some such prints were seen.
    • Connections
      Featured in Deadly Earnest's Spooky Colour Marathon (1975)
    • Soundtracks
      An der schönen, blauen Donau, Op. 314 (On the Beautiful Blue Danube)
      (uncredited)

      Music by Johann Strauss

      Played at the party

    User reviews32

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    Frightful fun for lovers of classic chills
    Borrowing a page from the playbook of producers like William Castle, Al Adamson, Nicholson and Arkoff at AIP and the like, this was a lot of fun for me as a kid with the hokey gimmicks of the "Fear Flasher" and the "Horror Horn" added to prevent the more squeamish members of the audience from dying of sheer fright, (the goosebump-inducing voice of the Narrator in the "Instructional" sequence was none other than CANNON himself, William Conrad, who actually directed one of these horror potboilers for Warner's, the Dean Jones/Connie Stevens starrer TWO ON A GUILLOTINE.)

    This rehash of the definitely superior HOUSE OF WAX with Vincent Price, gives us the grisly tale of serial strangler Jason Cravette (Patrick O'Neal in a bravura performance), who is finally caught literally red-handed as he ritualistically weds and beds his latest victim, ex mortis.

    His subsequent escape and its gory consequences, (he goes from being caught red-handed to losing one of them), becomes the fodder for a sensational museum of mass murderers run by suave local entrepreneur Anthony Draco (Cesare Danova, one of Warner's second-tier matinee idols.) Once worried about operating in the red, soon Draco and his associates, the marvelous Wilfrid Hyde-White and diminuitive sidekick Tun-Tun (the 'Mini-Me' of his day) are back in business, as the slippery Cravette gives our heroes and the local authorities more red than they know what to do with, cutting a vengeful swath through the ranks of all those responsible for his near-incarceration.

    Hy Averback keeps all the right balls in the air with a speedy and sure sense of direction, and there's much delightful interplay between the lead characters, especially Danova and Hyde-White. Look closely and not only will you see Tony Curtis in an uncredited cameo, but a baby-faced Wayne Rogers as well, as a very unlucky constable (whom Averback would direct years later in episodes of TV's M*A*S*H...talk about six-degree associations!)

    With the lush photography provided by master d.p. Richard Kline, and a score by William Lava that reminds us that he wasn't just at Warner's to provide soundtracks for Bugs Bunny and the Road Runner, this was about as classy as genre-B pics could get for the mid-'60's, not discounting the efforts of A.I.P. with the Price/Poe films. Not available in any medium that I'm aware of, you'll have to keep your eyes peeled on AMC or TNT late night to catch this worthy rarity.
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    • Release date
      • October 21, 1966 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Die Schreckenskammer
    • Filming locations
      • Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USA
    • Production company
      • Warner Bros.
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 20 minutes
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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