Dr. Tarr's Torture Dungeon

Name: La mansión de la locura
Genre: Horror
Duration: 1 h 22 min
Rating: 5.1
Cast: Claudio Brook, Arthur Hansel, Ellen Sherman

Original title: La mansión de la locura

1973
R
1h 22m

IMDb RATING

5.1/10

1.3K

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Dark Comedy Horror

The inmates of an insane asylum take over the institution, imprison the doctors and staff, then put into action their own ideas of how the place should be run.The inmates of an insane asylum take over the institution, imprison the doctors and staff, then put into action their own ideas of how the place should be run.The inmates of an insane asylum take over the institution, imprison the doctors and staff, then put into action their own ideas of how the place should be run.

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IMDb RATING

5.1/10

1.3K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Trivia
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.

Connections
Featured in Dusk to Dawn Drive-in Trash-o-Rama Show Vol. 3 (1996)

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7/10

More like mansion of weirdness!

"The Mansion of Madness" is a long forgotten surreal horror comedy from directer Juan Lopez Moctezuma. Most notorious for "Alucarda". "Mansion of Madness" contains a couple cast members from "El Topo" including cinematographer Rafiel Corkidi. The movie is loosely based on a short story from Edgar Allan Poe. The plot concerns a weird and deranged insane asylum where the patients take over and make up their own rules. Doctors out of the way! There's rooms full of crazy lunatics including people who act like chickens. Actor Claudio Brook is in charge of the madness. Fans of Jodorosky, Arrabal, Fellini and Ken Russel will definitely find this film enjoyable. It's also known as "Dr. Tarr's Torture Dungeon". Not to worry, there's more surreal art than torture in this flick. So why not check in, to the mansion of madness?