The Mansion of Madness

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05/26/2016 An uneven film with more than a few outrageously memorable moments. The film is an adaptation of Poe's story "The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether", and the plot will be familiar to folks who have seen any number of other "inmates running the asylum" films like "Don't Look in the Basement". A journalist travels to a remote asylum to interview the director Dr. Maillard and learn about his unconventional methods, only to learn that there has been a coup of sorts and the inmates are literally running this asylum. This is an extremely talky film, and it's not even that it's dialogue heavy, it's monologue heavy. Claudio Brook, who stars as the fake Dr. Maillard, talks and talks and talks, and there are long stretches that are less than interesting. Yet in it's best moments, this film has imagery reminiscent of Jodorowsky in it's sheer bizarreness (the dancing chicken man is a highlight). See more 11/29/2014 Extremely strange,sometimes surrealistic film; has a cult following. See more 05/23/2014 The inmates have taken over the asylum. It starts slow but picks up though even if you are paying attention it does become a bit incoherent at times. You really have to love bad movies to make it through this. That or like boobies, lots of boobies. Oh and there is an interpretive bird dance towards the end. There is not enough interpretive dance in horror movies. See more 04/14/2014 It's crazy, perhaps a little too crazy as the plot is barely understandable and the characters are too annoying. There are decent moments and entertaining bits, but the slow pacing and stupidity make it a hard watch. See more 04/12/2014 If you like FANDO Y LIS, EL TOPO or Juan Moctezuma, you'll enjoy this film. A rambling, surreal KING OF HEARTS. See more 03/18/2014 This movie is loosely based on The System of Dr. Tarr and Professor Feather by Edgar Allan Poe. It is AKA Dr. Tarr's Torture Dungeon. This movie is so bad it was torture to sit through the whole thing. I don't think that MST3K could save it. See more Read all reviews

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