Torture Garden

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  • Torture Garden -- Five visitors to a carnival fright show run by Dr. Diablo (Burgess Meredith) are given warning visions of the inner evil within each. Written by Robert Bloch and directed by Freddie Francis, the omnibus is more hokey than scary, though the episode about a collector (Jack Palance) of Edgar Allen Poe memorabilia has at least a suitably sinister atmosphere. Fanciful but unconvincing scenes of violence. (A-II) (br) ( 1967 )




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