A horror movie star returns to his famous role after spending years in a mental institution, but the character seems to be committing murders independent of his will.
Acting
Price's layered fragility—mocking and mourning his own image.
Direction
Clark blurs film-within-film until reality itself unravels.
Costume
Dr. Death's rotting theatrical garb—gloriously grotesque.
Director
Jim Clark
Vincent Price
Paul Toombes
Peter Cushing
Herbert Flay
Robert Quarry
Oliver Quayle
Adrienne Corri
Faye
Linda Hayden
Elizabeth Peters
Natasha Pyne
Julia Wilson
Michael Parkinson
TV Interviewer
Barry Dennen
Gerry Blount
Catherine Willmer
Louise Peters
Julie Crosthwaite
Ellen
John Garrie
Inspector Harper
Peter Halliday
Psychiatrist
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Price and Cushing were real-life friends; their easy rapport here masks genuine affection beneath the Gothic gloom.
The film borrows footage from Price's actual AIP films, making Paul's 'past' literally Price's own—cinema eating itself alive.
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