The Door with Seven Locks 1940 N/R, 80 min. Genre: Horror / Thriller aka: Chamber of Horrors
Director: Norman Lee Cast: Leslie Banks, Lilli Palmer, Romilly Lunge, Gina Malo, David Horne, Richard Bird, Cathleen Nesbitt, J.H. Roberts, Aubrey Mallalieu, Harry Hutchinson, Ross Landon, Phil Ray
Mad Dr. Manetta (Leslie Banks) lures heirs to a fortune into his mansion and eliminates them through torture. But the latest heir, Judy (Lilli Palmer), might be a little harder to eliminate, and the doctor's days may be numbered.
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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street 1936 N/R, 68 min. Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: George King Cast: Tod Slaughter, Stella Rho, Graham Soutten, Bruce Seton, Eve Lister, D.J. Williams, John Singer, Davina Craig, Jerry Verno, Billy Holland, Norman Pierce, Aubrey Mallalieu, Ben Williams, Henry B. Longhurst
Later remade into the great musical, this is the early film adaptation of the George Dibden-Pitt play about a psychopathic killer–Sweeney Todd (Tod Slaughter)–who kills customers who come into his barbershop. The ex-customers become the main part of Mrs. Lovatt's (Stella Rho) meat pies.
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| 1. The Door with Seven Locks (1940) aka: Chamber of Horrors
2. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1936)
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