| Horrors of the Black Museum | |
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 Theatrical release poster | |
| Directed by | Arthur Crabtree |
| Written by | Herman Cohen Aben Kandel |
| Produced by | Jack Greenwood Executive Herman Cohen |
| Starring | Michael Gough June Cunningham Graham Curnow Shirley Anne Field |
| Cinematography | Desmond Dickinson |
| Edited by | Geoffrey Muller |
| Music by | Gerard Schurmann |
Production companies | Anglo-Amalgamated Carmel Productions |
| Distributed by | American International Pictures (US) Anglo-Amalgamated (UK) |
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Running time | 95 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $164,000 (est.)[1] or £40,000[2] |
| Box office | over $1 million[1] or over £1 million[2] |
Horrors of the Black Museum is a 1959 British horror film directed by Arthur Crabtree and starring Michael Gough, June Cunningham, Graham Curnow and Shirley Anne Field.[3][4]
It was the first film in what film critic David Pirie dubbed Anglo-Amalgamated's "Sadian trilogy" (the other two being Circus of Horrors (1960) and Peeping Tom (1960)), with an emphasis on sadism, cruelty and violence (with sexual undertones), in contrast to the supernatural horror of the Hammer films of the same era.
- ^ a b Mark McGee, Faster and Furiouser: The Revised and Fattened Fable of American International Pictures, McFarland, 1996 p100
- ^ a b Harper, Sue; Porter, Vincent (2003). British Cinema of The 1950s The Decline of Deference. Oxford University Press USA. p. 193.
- ^ "Horrors of the Black Museum". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 14 February 2024.
- ^ "BFI.org". Archived from the original on 14 January 2009. Retrieved 14 January 2009.