Wuchak
Victorian horror revolving around a wax museum in Baltimore
This was originally intended to be a pilot for a proposed TV series with the proprietors of the museum (Cesare Danova and Wilfrid Hyde-White) acting as amateur sleuths who assist the police with horrific cases. It was decided to release it theatrically because it was ostensibly too intense for television at the time. The gimmick of a Fear Flasher and corresponding Horror Horn were added to increase the runtime, along with a cameo by Tony Curtis.
It comes in the tradition of Poe's "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," which started the genre in 1841 and influenced Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, amongst others. The best film version of "Rue Morgue" is arguably the 1986 ...