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YouTube reviews:
Trailer:
Free to watch online on YouTube [360p]:
Choice dialogue:
Lancelot Canning [Peter Cushing]: “No, no. I’ve had enough. If I go on drinking like this you’ll think I’m Poe himself.”
Theatrical release:
Columbia Pictures released the film on a double bill with Berserk. Free ‘Fright-Seeds’ were given out to American movie patrons with the instruction to plant them at midnight.
Blu-ray release:
On 23 October 2017, Torture Garden was released as a limited edition region-free Blu-ray in the UK by Powerhouse Films via their Indicator label.
Buy Blu-ray: Amazon.co.uk
High Definition remaster
Original mono audio
Ramsey Campbell on Robert Bloch (2017)
Interview with Fiona Subotsky (2017)
Interview with actress Barbara Ewing (2017)
Original theatrical trailer
Image gallery: on-set and promotional photography
New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
Limited edition exclusive booklet with a new essay by Laura Mayne, an overview of contemporary critical responses, and historic articles on the film
Limited Edition of 3,000 copies
Cast and characters:
Jack Palance … Ronald Wyatt (segment 4 “The Man Who Collected Poe”)
Burgess Meredith … Doctor Diabolo (Framework Story)
Beverly Adams … Carla Hayes (segment 2 “Terror Over Hollywood”)
Peter Cushing … Lancelot Canning (segment 4 “The Man Who Collected Poe”)
Michael Bryant … Colin Williams (segment 1 “Enoch”)
John Standing … Leo Winston (segment 3 “Mr Steinway”)
Robert Hutton … Bruce Benton (segment 2 “Terror Over Hollywood”)
John Phillips … Eddie Storm (segment 2 “Terror Over Hollywood”)
Michael Ripper … Gordon Roberts (Framework Story)
Bernard Kay … Dr Heim (segment 2 “Terror Over Hollywood”)
Catherine Finn … Nurse Parker (segment 1 “Enoch”)
Maurice Denham … Uncle Roger (segment 1 “Enoch”)
Ursula Howells … Miss Maxine Chambers (segment 3 “Mr Steinway”)
David Bauer … Mike Charles (segment 2 “Terror Over Hollywood”)
Niall MacGinnis … Dr Silversmith (segment 1 “Enoch”)
Nicole Shelby … Millie (segment 2 “Terror Over Hollywood”)
Roy Stevens … Constable (segment 1 “Enoch”)
Norman Claridge … Police Sergeant (segment 1 “Enoch”)
Hedger Wallace … Edgar Allan Poe (segment 4 “The Man Who Collected Poe”) (as Geoffrey Wallace)
Clytie Jessop … Atropos – Goddess of Destiny
Timothy Bateson … Fairground Barker (Framework Story)
Roy Godfrey … Collector (segment 4 “The Man Who Collected Poe”)
James Copeland … Fred (segment 2 “Terror Over Hollywood”)
Barry Low … Tramp (segment 1 “Enoch”)
Barbara Ewing … Dorothy Endicott (segment 3 “Mr Steinway”)
Filming locations:
Shepperton Studios, Shepperton, Surrey, England
Working title:
Horrorscope
Technical specs:
1 hour 33 minutes | 1 hour 40 minutes (2017 Mill Creek Blu-ray)
Audio: Mono (RCA Sound Recording)
Technicolor
Aspect ratio: 1.85: 1
