Horrors of the Black Museum

New York: American International Pictures [AIP], 1959. Vintage studio still photograph of June Cunningham cutting a rug on the dance floor, from the US release of the 1959 British horror film.

A frustrated mystery writer and his assistant are caught up in a strange series of murders terrorizing the country, all of which utilize devious devices taken from Scotland Yard's "black museum." Anglo-Amalgamated's first entry in what critic David Pirie termed their "Sadian trilogy," due to their sadism, cruelty, and sexual violence (as opposed to the supernatural horror common in contemporary Hammer films), followed by Sidney Hayers' "Circus of Horrors" (1960) and Michael Powell's "Peeping Tom" (1960).

Set and shot on location in London.

10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus, with a horizontal crease affecting the bottom left corner.

[Book #167555]