“Poe would never recognise it, but in it’s own way, aided by 3-D cinematography, the movie is good fun.” Alan Frank, The Horror Film Handbook Director Roy Del Ruth shoves numerous pop-up 3D effects out into the audience’s face with crude abandon – women screaming into the camera, a knife thrower throwing knives, a snarling ape, a dead body, a trampolinist and even one of the Flying Zacchinis trapeze artists. Charles Gemora, the makeup artist who became famous for playing apes during this era (and indeed also played the ape in the 1932 film) lurks about in a gorilla suit.” Moria However, it’s difficult not to see both this and House of Wax as stylistic antecedents to the garish productions from AIP and Hammer a decade later.” Brett Gallman, Oh, the Horror! “ Phantom of the Rue Morgue is wedged between two eras it’s a leftover from the previous decade’s gothic murder mysteries and arrived just as theaters were beginning to be overrun by atomic age monsters and aliens. Soon a set of suspects are found, including a sailor named Jacques and a professor named Marais, who is involved in unauthorized (and bizarre) animal experiments… When Dupin is approached by the police to help, he agrees. The authorities are baffled, but they do have one man who may have the answers, Professor Dupin. Karl Malden ( The Cat O’Nine Tails), Claude Dauphin, Patricia Medina, Steve Forrest ( Night Gallery Maneaters Are Loose!).įrance, 1870s: A string of strange murders occur in the Rue Morgue. were attempting to repeat the success they had with House of Wax the previous year. Producer Henry Blanke previously oversaw Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933, uncredited). Webb ( Cape Fear), a very loose adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe‘s short story The Murders in the Rue Morgue. Phantom of the Rue Morgue is a 1954 American 3D horror film directed by Roy Del Ruth ( The Terror The Alligator People) from a screenplay by Harold Medford and James R.
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