A Chamber of Horrors, with Profane Passages by Newton Mackintosh

After killing the judge, he chops off the judge's arms and head, obscuring his identity.ĭraco and Blount discover the crime scene and realize the judge has been murdered, and that the murderer toasted the crime with champagne after butchering him. There he sets Marie on a mission to seduce the judge who condemned him in order to trap and murder him. With a hook in place of his severed hand, and under an assumed name, he plots vengeance on all who 'betrayed' him.Īs part of his plan, he takes the prostitute Marie Champlain in his charge, turning her into a 'lady' and returning with her to Baltimore. Presumed dead by the police, Cravette flees to New Orleans. He escapes while being transported by chopping off his own hand. They help the police capture him, and he is convicted of murder and sentenced to hang. They are drawn into the investigation of Jason Cravette (O'Neal), an insane murderer who kills a woman and then 'marries' her. There are plot similarities between this and Dark Intruder, which was released the previous year.Īnthony Draco (Danova) and Harold Blount (Hyde-White) are proprietors of a wax museum in Baltimore who are also amateur sleuths.

The gimmicks were added (including a cameo appearance by Tony Curtis) to increase the running time. The film used the gimmicks of the Fear Flasher (the screen flashing red for several seconds) and the Horror Horn (an audible alert) to alert viewers to grisly moments. It was released theatrically because it was considered too intense for television at the time. The film was released to theatres but was originally shot as a television movie and a pilot film for a proposed series called House of Wax.

The screenplay is by Stephen Kandel, from a story by Kandel and Ray Russell. Chamber of Horrors is a 1966 American psychological horror film directed by Hy Averback and starring Patrick O'Neal, Cesare Danova, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Wayne Rogers and Laura Devon.

A Chamber of Horrors, with Profane Passages by Newton Mackintosh