Wuchak
Surrealistic sanatorium of lunacy
In southern France, 1845, a journalist returns to his home country (Arthur Hansel) to visit an asylum that, reportedly, uses revolutionary techniques to treat the mentally ill. The head doctor (Claudio Brook) gives him a tour of his vast institution, but will he make it out alive and sane?
A Mexican production shot in the summer of 1971, The Mansion of Madness is also known as Dr. Tarrs Torture Dungeon, based on a short story by Edgar Allan Poe. It combines the Star Trek episode Whom Gods Destroywhich was also no doubt inspired by the same Poe yarn (albeit unofficially)and mixes it with a standard story set-up of Hammer and AIP horror flicks (a visitor arrives at a remote mansion or castle and l...