Vincent Price and Peter Cushing’s 1974 horror flick Madhouse (aka The Revenge of Dr Death) is coming to Blu-ray on June 22nd as part of the Eureka Classics range .
Produced by Amicus Productions and released by American International Pictures, the film was directed by Jim Clark, better known for his work as an editor on films such as Marathon Man, The Killing Fields and The Mission.
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Paul Toombes (Price) is an actor whose trademark role is the enigmatic and terrifying Dr Death, a skull-faced serial killer and the central antagonist of a long-running series of horror films.
When Toombes’ fiancée Ellen (Julie Crosthwait) is murdered in mysterious circumstances by an assailant dressed as Dr Death, the actor wonders if he has succumbed to madness – a question he will be forced to reckon with again when, years later, people begin dying on the set of a new television series based on his most famous character.
Features include:
- 1080p HD presentation on Blu-ray
- Original English mono audio
- New introduction to Madhouse by horror novelist Stephen Laws
- Lights, Camera, Murder! – new video essay on Madhouse by horror and gothic scholar Mary Going
- Audio commentary by film historian David Del Valle
- Archival making-of featurette
- Stills Gallery
- Original theatrical trailer