Torture Garden (1967) on Netflix
Five curious patrons pay for the extra attraction at Dr. Diabolo's fairground sideshow. He leads them behind a curtain to the shears of Atropos, which show each of them the evil ahead.
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Plot summary
Dr. Diabolo runs a fairground sideshow where visitors first see haunted house style attractions. He offers a genuinely scary experience to anyone who pays extra, and five of them follow him behind a curtain. There an effigy of Atropos holds shears that, he says, warn of foreseeable evil. Looking into the shears, each visitor sees the greed and violence that lies behind respectable façades. The group includes Colin Williams, a greedy playboy, Carla Hayes, a Hollywood starlet, Ronald Wyatt, a collector, and Gordon Roberts.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Torture Garden (1967)
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- Torture Garden was meant to star Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee, but Columbia, which put up the budget, wanted two American names, so Jack Palance and Burgess Meredith were cast instead, with Cushing taking a smaller role.
- Freddie Francis said Martin Scorsese wanted him to direct a film about the life of Edgar Allan Poe because Scorsese admired Torture Garden so much.
