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Edgar Allan Poe: Dr. Tarr's Torture Dungeon
| Rating: | No Rating |
| Genre: | Horror |
| Release Date: | January 1, 1972 |
| Running time: | 88 minutes |
| Cast: | Claude Brook, Ellen Sherman, Roberto Dumont, Arthur Hansel, Martin LaSalle |
| Director: | Juan López Moctezuma |
| Producer: | J.G. Elster, Roberto Viskin |
| Writer: | Carlos Illescas |
| Distributor: | Group 1 Film Distributors |
Description: This bizarre Mexican production is loosely based on The System of Dr. Tarr and Professor Feather by Edgar Allan Poe. The story involves a visit from a newspaper reporter (Claudio Brook) to a sanitarium in 19th century France, where he eventually comes to realize the asylum is being run by one of its own inmates, a megalomaniac, who allows the others to play out their basest fantasies and urges. More stylish and creative than its exploitative American-release title implies (the original Mexican title translates as Mansion of Madness), this is an interesting surrealist spin on the Poe tale from the producers of Jodorowsky's El Topo.~ Cavett Binion, All Movie Guide
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