
Mister Frost
1990


“The Newest Edgar Allan Poe Horror Thriller!”
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The inmates of an insane asylum take over the institution, imprison the doctors and staff, and then put into play their own ideas of how the place should be run.
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Juan López MoctezumaStreaming availability for India
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**_Surrealistic sanatorium of lunacy_** In southern France, 1845, a journalist returns to his home country (Arthur Hansel) to visit an asylum that, reportedly, uses revolutionary techniques to treat the mentally ill. The head doctor (Claudio Brook) gives him a tour of his vast institution, but will he make it out alive and sane? A Mexican production shot in the summer of 1971, “The Mansion of Madness” is also known as “Dr. Tarr’s Torture Dungeon,” based on a short story by Edgar Allan Poe. It combines the Star Trek episode “Whom God’s Destroy”—which was also no doubt inspired by the same…
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