Madhouse (1974)

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- 1 nomination total

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Vincent Price

Paul Toombes

Peter Cushing

Herbert Flay

Robert Quarry

Oliver Quayle

Adrienne Corri

Faye Carstairs Flay

Natasha Pyne

Julia Wilson

Michael Parkinson

T.V. Interviewer

Linda Hayden

Elizabeth Peters

Barry Dennen

Gerry Blount

Ellis Dale

Alfred Peters

Catherine Willmer

Louise Peters

John Garrie

Inspector Harper

Ian Thompson

Bradshaw

Jenny Lee Wright

Carol Clayton

Julie Crosthwaite

Ellen Mason
(as Julie Crosthwait)

Peter Halliday

Psychiatrist

Luana Anders

Catherine Medina (Clip from 'The Pit and the Pendulum')
(archive footage)

John Dierkes

West (Clip from 'The Haunted Palace')
(archive footage)

Boris Karloff

Clip from 'The Raven'
(archive footage)

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Trivia
The film's opening credits include special participation by Basil Rathbone and Boris Karloff. Both of these actors were long since dead, having died in the late 1960s (Rathbone in 1967 and Karloff in 1969), but they appear in this film in clips from real films that they had each starred in with Vincent Price: Rathbone in L'empire de la terreur (1962) and Karloff in Le corbeau (1963).

Goofs
Julia's dead body is breathing heavily after Paul Toombes discovers her.

Quotes
Paul Toombes: Miss Peters, as they say in horror movies, you will come to a bad end.

Crazy credits
"With special participation by Boris Karloff (and) Basil Rathbone." At the time of this film's theatrical release in 1974, both of these actors had been dead since 1967 and 1969, respectively, and their "special participation" was actually limited to appearing in this film in clips from real films that they had each starred in with Vincent Price: Karloff in Le corbeau (1963) and Rathbone in L'empire de la terreur (1962).

Connections
Featured in The Horror Hall of Fame (1974)

Soundtracks
When Day Is Done
Performed by Vincent Price

After a mental breakdown following the murder of his bride to be, famed horror actor Paul Toombes (Vincent Price) is persuaded to return to the Dr Death role that made him famous. He is persuaded by a writer friend of his Herbert Flay (Peter Cushing) who is also the scriptwriter of all the Dr Death movies. Soon Toombes finds his mind is again being tested as the series of mysterious deaths that plagued him before, returns. The police soon suspect Toombes of the crimes, but who is the mysterious masked and caped killer that is disrupting filming? Lots of campy and cheesy fun with some horror greats, there's actually some nice visuals too that I hadn't remembered from previous viewings. Not price's best but still good fun.