It's got Vinnie The P - Yaaay! Peter Da Cush - Yaaay! AND THEY ACT TOGETHER!!! Yep, none of your Scream and Scream Again solo stuff here. Price and Cushing team up as fading horror star Paul Toombes and script writer Herbert Flay (nope it's not a Carry On Film) creators of a character by the name of Dr. Death, a big horror hit years ago but not so hot since the day Toombes discovered his fiancé's decapitated corpse at a party to celebrate the latest Dr. Death flick. Toombes has an understandable nervous break-down, being unable to remember if he "did it" (Yep, it's also one of those "Am I going Barmy?" films).
However an on-form Robert Quarry, sleazy film producer extraordinaire, invites Toombes to make a come back in England in a Dr. Death t.v. series, and of course it's not long before the killings start again...
The Madhouse of the title is presumably the house where ol Pricey stays during his visit, namely because Cushing's wife lives in the basement with a bunch of spiders and is really quite barking. She still seems to fancy Toombes, though.
This is a strange but agreeable little film. Price is not really suited to the part of the cracked-up hero, but maybe he and Cushing exchanged their usual parts. Uncle Cush is brilliant, though -and just wait till you see the end - Price as Cushing as Price (work that one out!)It can be viewed as a forerunner to all those terrible slasher pics and although it's certainly not as good as Theatre Of Blood it does have something unique in cinema history to my knowledge.
Where else would you see a murder on the Michael Parkinson Show?!!!
However an on-form Robert Quarry, sleazy film producer extraordinaire, invites Toombes to make a come back in England in a Dr. Death t.v. series, and of course it's not long before the killings start again...
The Madhouse of the title is presumably the house where ol Pricey stays during his visit, namely because Cushing's wife lives in the basement with a bunch of spiders and is really quite barking. She still seems to fancy Toombes, though.
This is a strange but agreeable little film. Price is not really suited to the part of the cracked-up hero, but maybe he and Cushing exchanged their usual parts. Uncle Cush is brilliant, though -and just wait till you see the end - Price as Cushing as Price (work that one out!)It can be viewed as a forerunner to all those terrible slasher pics and although it's certainly not as good as Theatre Of Blood it does have something unique in cinema history to my knowledge.
Where else would you see a murder on the Michael Parkinson Show?!!!