Torture Garden

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Torture Garden

1967

1h 33m

Horror

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Sideshow psychic Dr. Diabolo (Burgess Meredith) predicts the horrific futures of some curious fairground visitors. Wealthy Colin (Michael Bryant) finds himself compelled to murder. Ruthless actress Carla (Beverly Adams) discovers that movie stars have a shocking secret. Lovestruck reporter Dorothy (Barbara Ewing) does battle with the spirit of her beloved's dead mother. And greedy Edgar Allan Poe collector Ronald (Jack Palance) finds out a horrifying truth about his idol after murdering a rival.

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Tim Brayton

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A film made up of flashes of goodness interspersed with a whole lot of half-hearted mediocrity.

Rated: 2.5/5

Oct 19, 2020

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Dennis Schwartz

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An uneven but overall effective horror portmanteau that is ably directed by the London-born Freddie Francis.

Rated: B-

Oct 31, 2008

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Horror fan 4

I absolutely enjoyed these four short horror stories. Burgess Meredith Jack palance and Peter Cushing were great!!! Tim Treakle

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

12/01/24

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Audience Member

Really fun Amicus horror anthology. Feels like it's right in line with those original Tales from the Crypt and Vault of Horror films. A lost cousin perhaps? I especially dug the Jack Palace/Peter Cushing segment. The old Hollywood one was pretty fun too.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

08/28/19

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delysid d

This movie is nowhere near as Cool as the title would suggest

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

03/14/19

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robert p

Ugh, what a horrible show this was, know I know why its called Torture Garden.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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A really fun effort from Amicus that once more follows their anthology model. Our host is a devilishly fun Burgess Meredith, also featuring genre regulars Jack Palance, Peter Cushing, Barbara Ewing and Michael Ripper. Direction by Freddie Francis and stories written by Robert Bloch (Psycho) lend this a consistent tone of horror and irony. While not as great as their later effort Tales from the Crypt, it's still a very entertaining and atmospheric, early 70s English horror flick none the less.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

01/31/23

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No está mal, hay historias similares en películas de la época.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

01/31/23

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Beverly Sassoon

Carla Hayes

Peter Cushing

Lancelot Canning

Barbara Ewing

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Sideshow psychic Dr. Diabolo (Burgess Meredith) predicts the horrific futures of some curious fairground visitors. Wealthy Colin (Michael Bryant) finds himself compelled to murder. Ruthless actress Carla (Beverly Adams) discovers that movie stars have a shocking secret. Lovestruck reporter Dorothy (Barbara Ewing) does battle with the spirit of her beloved's dead mother. And greedy Edgar Allan Poe collector Ronald (Jack Palance) finds out a horrifying truth about his idol after murdering a rival.

Director: Fred Francis
Producer: Max Rosenberg, Milton Subotsky
Production Co: Columbia Pictures
Genre: Horror
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 1, 2011
Runtime: 1h 33m

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