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)
Release date
29 April 1959 (1959-04-29) (US)
Running time
95 minutes
Countries
United Kingdom United States
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 (1959) is a British-American 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.
^ abMark McGee, Faster and Furiouser: The Revised and Fattened Fable of American International Pictures, McFarland, 1996 p100
^ abHarper, 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.
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