Madhouse (1974 film)

Madhouse is a 1974 British horror film directed by Jim Clark for Amicus Productions in association with American International Pictures. It stars Vincent Price, Natasha Pyne, Peter Cushing, Robert Quarry, Adrienne Corri and Linda Hayden.

After his release, Toombes is called to London by his friend Herbert Flay Peter Cushing, the writer of the Dr. Death films, who has joined with Quayle to produce a Dr. Death television series for the BBC. While on the cruise ship en route to England, he encounters a persistent young actress Linda Hayden, who takes his watch from his cabin and follows him through London, and eventually to Flays house. In the spiderinfested basement, Toombes discovers Faye Carstairs Adrienne Corri, the female lead in one of the Dr. Death movies and now Flays reluctant wife, driven mad after being disfigured in a car accident. Outside Flays house, the young actress discovers the masked man walking the grounds believing it to be Toombes, she approaches him, only to be killed with a pitchfork. When her body is discovered, Scotland Yard suspects Toombes, as the killing resembles a scene from one of his films.Toombes experiences difficulties while working on set, publicly berating his female costar later that evening, she is found hanged by her own hair, another scene from a Dr. Death film. Scotland Yard questions him, but finds no conclusive evidence. While returning to Flays house on several occasions, Toombes is harassed by the parents of the young actress, who recovered his watch and threaten to deliver it to the police unless he pays them a ransom. But the masked man strikes again by luring them into the house and impaling them both with a broadsword. On the set, the director is crushed by a descending bed canopy, suspected to be the intended fate for Toombes himself Toombes is chased through the BBC studio later that evening by the masked man while on his way to an interview. Julia Wilson Natasha Pyne, Quayles public relations chief, discovers a contract in Quayles files, but is killed by the masked man Toombes discovers her lifeless body and suffers a nervous breakdown, reliving Ellens death and his own doubt as to his role in it. Taking Julias body onto the set, he locks himself i

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