Jun 20 2010
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Throughout the mid 60s and early 70s, Hammer Studios counterpart, Amicus Productions, also known as the Studio That Dripped Blood, formed through a partnership with producers Max Rosenberg and Milton Subotsky, churned out a series of unbelievable shrimp dread anthologies including Dr. Terror’s House of Horrors (1965), The House That Dripped Blood (1970), Asylum (1972), Tales From The Crypt (1972), The Vault Of Terror (1973), From Beyond The Grave (1973), and this feature, titled Torture Garden (1967) . Written by Robert Bloch (Psycho, The House That Dripped Blood, Asylum), and directed by Freddie Francis (The Bad of Frankenstein, Dr. Terror’s House of Horrors, Tales from the Crypt), the film features Burgess Meredith (Rocky, Clash of the Titans), Jack Palance (Hawk the Slayer, Alone in the Sunless), Beverly Adams (How to Stuff a Wild Bikini, The Silencers), and Peter Cushing (The Awful Snowman, Dracula, The Revenge of Frankenstein) . Also appearing is Michael Bryant (Bikini Summer II), John Standing (Au Pair Girls), John Phillips (Village of the Damned, The Mummy’s Veil), Barbara Ewing (Dracula Has Risen from the Grave), Robert Hutton (The Colossus of Unique York), and character actor Michael Ripper, whose appeared in over some thirty Hammer films over the years, including such features as X the Unknown (1956), The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958), The Mummy (1959), and The Brides of Dracula (1960), to name a few.
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As the film begins, we’re at the carnival, an English one, to be steady…it’s ever so grand fun with the rides and attractions…would you care for some for some blood pudding? No? How about a creamery scone? Doesn’t that sound smashing? Maybe later…oh, witness…Dr. Diabolo’s Torture Garden…that’s an queer attraction. Eye, it’s Burgess Meredith dressed up like a creepy transvestite, and he’s promising the `thrill of a lifetime’ to those willing to stick around, and pay a tiny more after the regular reveal…I don’t like the sound of that…a handful stick around, and soon we’re knee deep into the first narrative about a man named Colin (Bryant) . Seems Colin’s in debt up to his neck, but a magnificent bit of luck comes his intention after his seemingly well to do uncle kicks the bucket (with a slight abet from Colin…nothing substandard with making your possess luck, is there? ), and Colin is the sole beneficiary. Colin does accept on his inheritance, but it comes with a few strings attached, one being a cat with an new diet and psychic powers. The second yarn features a gorgeous woman named Carla (Adams) who will do anything to effect it in the movie biz, including betraying her flat mate (which she does) . She soon learns of a group within the business, a prefer few who never seem to age (can you say Dick Clark? ), and will do anything to protect their secret. The third legend involves a woman named Dorothy Endicott (Ewing) as a musical journalist doing a allotment on a renowned pianist, played by John Standing. The two hit it off quite well, and a romance ensues, but problems arise due to a weird relationship the man has with his piano, one that his mother gave him before she passed. The forth anecdote features both Palance and Cushing as Ronald Wyatt and Lancelot Canning, respectively, both extremely avid Edgar Allan Poe collectors. Turns out this `Poe’ passion runs in Canning’s family, as his grandfather started the accumulating of Poe memorabilia, his father followed, and now Canning himself maintains that which has grown over the years into what some might call the penultimate Poe collection. Wyatt is envious, especially during a visit to Canning’s house, which is basically a shrine to Poe, and discovers there’s more to this collection that meets the explore.
This is an anthology, comprised of four stories plus a wraparound (the wraparound is the `in-between’ legend that ties the rest together) . My general belief of these dismay anthology type films is that some of the stories work, and some don’t, a pleasant ratio being somewhere around 50/50…this applies here, but for me, it wasn’t that some of the stories didn’t work, but objective that they didn’t work as well as the ones that did…probably sounds like I’m splitting hairs here, but I have seen an anthology or two where one epic was so completely lacking it drew the rest down. Amicus did effect a number of different type films including fear (The Psychopath, Bawl And Bawl Again), and science fiction (They Came From Beyond State, The Terrornauts), but their strength was the dread anthology (1972’s Asylum is probably one of my favorites, of the ones I’ve seen so far) . The strongest stories, in my plan, are the first, being a fairly straight up scare sage, and the last, featuring Palance and Cushing, playing off glowing well against each other. You can eye Palance’s tendencies towards going overboard with a bit here, but it works given the nature of the character, particularly in that of an obsessed collector certain to accept what he wants. The second myth is more of a science fiction story, while the third, featuring the man and his recent relationship with his piano, was kinda goofy, but ended fairly well. The wraparound legend, usually the weakest link in these films, is no different here, as Meredith’s character comes across as an naughty character from the 60s Batman television series, which he actually appeared on as the character The Penguin. Overall the stories aren’t very horrific, generally not very ghastly, but they do possess some cultivated creepiness, and there’s a lot of fun to be had here.
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The record, presented in widescreen (1.85:1) anamorphic, looks very interesting, and the Dolby Digital mono audio comes through elegant and certain. There’s not worthy in terms of special features except for some unrelated previews of other Columbia Tristar Home Video releases like Frankenfish (2004), Appreciate (2005), Vampires: The Turning (2005), and a television mini-series titles Kingdom Hospital (2004) . I’m hoping this release is a signal that more of the as yet unreleased Amicus anthologies are making their contrivance to DVD, if only to illustrate to those who have the misconception that the apprehension anthology film genre originated with the release of Creepshow (1982), which is a grand film, by the procedure (Creepshow 3 is scheduled to be released in 2006) .
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From Britain’s Amicus Studio’s anthology series is 1967’s “Torture Garden”, a quartet of ironic fright tales featuring a large cast, directed by terror pro Feddie Francis and written by Robert Bloch-no plod in the dismay genre himself. Burgess Meredith is Dr. Diablo, a carnival operator of a “Torture Garden”-a sideshow of used to recent torture devices. He lures a group of people into seeking their future from a Sybil he has on present…the Goddess of Fortune. They learn they each have an base desire and look what happens should they pursue their greedy urge: a greedy nephew falls prey to a demonic cat owned by the uncle he murders; an ambitious starlet, willing to do anything for eternal fame, learns how those enormous stars last forever; a girl finds she has an novel rival for her pianist boyfriend’s affection….his piano; and there’s Jack Palance and Peter Cushing in a yarn about a fanatic Poe collector who gets remarkable more than he bargained for. Satisfactory fun and a profitable DVD print form this a collector’s item for those who appreciate the conventional Amicus anthology films like “Asylum”, the fresh “Tales From the Crypt” and “The House That Dripped Blood”—also written by Bloch. Appreciate.
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