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Actors: Vincent Price, Peter Cushing, Robert Quarry, Adrienne Corri
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Madhouse |
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Paul, an actor who played the famous character Dr. Death, has a party. At the party his fiance is killed by someone dressed as Dr. Death. Paul doesn't know if he did it or not as he's proned to blackouts. He's cleared of all charges, but after a breakdown he spends time in an asylum. When he's released his old manager, Herbert, talks him into coming to London and play Dr. Death on TV.
However, once Paul resumes acting people start dying again in ways that mimic the Dr. Death films.
Once again, Paul believes he's responsible. However, his publicist, Julia, discovers that due to his contract, Herbert and the producer, Oliver would benefit from Paul's death. But, before she can tell anyone she's killed.
After Julia's death Paul is distraught and decides to kill himself. He sets the room on fire and burns, but survives.
He realizes he's been framed and goes after Herbert. They struggle, but Herbert's wife, Faye, who hides in the basement due to being deformed in a fire, and who's always been in love with Paul, stabs Herbert and kills him.
Paul, now also deformed by the fire, joins Faye and they live in Herbert's secluded house hidden away from the world.
--Brandon Swenson, Resident Scholar
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Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 40%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 30%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 30%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1960's-1970's
Horror film?
Yes
Horror Plotlets:
- mad guy with knife likes to slice
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- actor
Age:
- 60's-90's
Eccentric:
Yes
- eccentric
Hair style
- short/standard wavy (man)
Body type
- average (man)
Events of movie makes character more...
- irritated
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Eastern European
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- white/grey
Hair style
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- very skinny (man)
How much in movie?
- 60%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Eastern European
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 60's-90's
Profession/status:
- actor
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 60%
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- skinny (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Eastern European
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Setting
Europe
Yes
European country:
- England/UK
Misc setting
- fancy mansion
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- non-gory references to death/punishment
Movie makes you feel...
- concerned
How many deaths in film?
- 4-8
How much use of techno gadgets?
- 1 ()
Unusual forms of death
- hanging
Any profanity?
- None
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