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Horrors Of The Black Museum details

Format:	15 DVD
Starring:	Michael Gough, Shirley Ann Field, Geoffrey Keen
Director:	Arthur Crabtree
Genres:	Horror, Thriller - Crime

DVD 1 disc

Name	Discs
Horrors Of The Black Museum	15 Feature

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Run time:	1 hour 18 minutes
Rental release:	Not currently released
Main languages:	English

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Fifties Frightener ?

By Neville Kelley from Abergele, North Wales , 20 May 2005

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When it was released this was one of the British horror films that people talked about, now it seems so tame and pointless - never mind though, it's all over in 117 minutes
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A chilling start but don't hold your hopes up

By a customer from Winchester , 17 Sep 2009

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I thought the start of this film was a real shocker and a bit difficult to watch (given it's age) and I settled down to a good old fashioned atmospheric scare, but it very quickly slid into manic over-acting, and master/servant laboratory cliches. Warning: contains some of the worst acting known to cinema-goers (Shirley Anne Field must have had a great agent, she's even more wooden and jerky here than usual). What tickled me was the jaunty way that flatmates/neighbours of murdered girls trotted totally untraumatised back to their homes after some truly vile things had just happened there. Ditto the fairground customers. I wanted to know what the connection was between the 'mad professor' and his modern-day Igor, who did his best to look moody and troubled but unfortunately just looked constipated. By the end I had stopped caring. Disappointing.
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Tetris

By a customer from Abingdon , 07 Dec 2008

Inexplicable cheescake moments, rampant misogyny, some of the most wooden acting I've ever seen and some very inventive and grisly deaths along with a truly bonkers closing shot: quite the little curiosity.

Most interesting of all: watch the screen in the mad scientist's lab and tell me if this movie wasn't the inspiration for Alexey Pajitnov in designing Tetris: all the shapes are there.
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expected more chills

By a customer from cornwal , 05 Jan 2007

I usually like old horror films but film did not match the title it wasn't scarey enough and the acting was poor.
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Some poor acting but quite charming

By a customer from Bristol , 02 Jul 2006

Quite an odd little film. Having watched a fair few British 60s & 70s horror films, particularly the Amicus 4-parters, I was not prepared for the almost complete lack of gore and the terrible acting. The 60s and 70s ones at least usually have more shocks and some decent performances. I am also still puzzled as to why there was a character doing a 3rd rate Marilyn Monroe impression and dancing badly in a pub. Shirley Anne Field's acting is some of the worst I can remember.

The plot was decent enough though, even if it ends very suddenly. Michael Gough is supremely arrogant if a bit OTT. There's also Geoffrey Keen, who was in some Bond films as a minister.
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Fifties Frightener ?

By Neville Kelley from Abergele, North Wales , 20 May 2005

When it was released this was one of the British horror films that people talked about, now it seems so tame and pointless - never mind though, it's all over in 117 minutes
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