Torture Garden (1967)
- Starring:
- Jack Palance, Burgess Meredith, (more)
- Director(s):
- Freddie Francis
- Format(s):
- DVD
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Synopsis of Torture Garden
The Torture Garden is an "omnibus" chiller, adapted from four short stories by Robert Bloch (Psycho). Each is introduced by Burgess Meredith, playing a sinister carnival barker by the name of Dr. Diabolo. The doctor's audience consists of five people, four of whom are apprised of their ultimate fates as Diabolo weaves his stories. In "Enoch," a young playboy falls under the spell of a cannibalistic cat. In "Terror Over Hollywood," a famous movie star is revealed to be an android. In "Mr. Steinway," the "villain" is a killer piano. And in "The Man Who Collected Poe," the title character murders another collector over a valuable Poe manuscript--only to receive retribution from ol' Edgar himself. If we told you anything about the fifth person in Meredith's audience, we'd be giving away the ending, wouldn't we now? The individual episodes tend to rise and fall depending upon the strength of their stars. Among those present in Torture Garden are horror-flick regulars Jack Palance, Peter Cushing, Robert Hutton, Michael Ripper and Niall McGinniss. No, this isn't a Hammer Production; it was put together by Hammer's principal British rival of the 1960s, Amicus Films. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Theatrical Feature Running Time:
- 100 mins
Complete Cast of Torture Garden
- Jack Palance - Ronald Wyatt
- Beverly Adams - Carla Hayes
- Michael Bryant - Colin
- Michael Ripper - Roberts
- Barry Lowe
- Geoffrey Wallace
- Catherine Finn - Nurse Parker
- Robert Hutton - Bruce Benton
- John Standing - Leo Winston
- John Phillips - Eddie Storm
- Niall MacGinnis - Doctor
- David Bauer - Mike Charles
- Ursula Howells - Miss Chambers
- Maurice Denham - Colin's Uncle
- Burgess Meredith - Dr. Diabolo
- Peter Cushing - Canning
- Barbara Ewing - Dorothy
- Timothy Bateson - Fairground Barker
- Norman Claridge
- Frank Forsyth - Tramp
- Clytie Jessop - Atropos
- Hedger Wallace - Edgar Allan Poe
- Nicole Shelby - Millie
- Roy Stephens
- Bernard Kay - Dr. Heim
- James Copeland
- Michael Hawkins - Constable
- Director(s):
- Freddie Francis
- Writer(s):
- Robert Bloch
- Producer(s):
- Max Rosenberg, Milton Subotsky
- Categories:
- Horror, Mystery & Suspense
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