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* MadArtist: Edmond Bancroft is a blocked mystery writer who decides to hypnotize his assistant into becoming a deformed killer so that he can witness the deaths first-hand for inspiration.
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* AcidBath: Bancroft keeps a vat of HollywoodAcid in his laboratory for disposing of the bodies of pesky snoopers who get too close to learning his secrets.
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* AcidBath: AcidPool: Bancroft keeps a vat of HollywoodAcid in his laboratory for disposing of the bodies of pesky snoopers who get too close to learning his secrets.
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* AcidBath: Bancroft keeps a vat of HollywoodAcid in his laboratory for disposing of the bodies of pesky snoopers who get too close to learning his secrets.
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* EyeScream: The film opens with a scene in which a woman is shown with blood running between the fingers pressed to her face, followed by a shot of binoculars with ''spikes at the eye-pieces''. It is allegedly based on a real case.
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* EyeScream: The film opens with a scene in which a woman is shown with blood running between the fingers pressed to her face, followed by a shot of binoculars with ''spikes at the eye-pieces''. It is allegedly based on a real case.[[note]]Mercifully, the real-life case caused no injury or death, as the booby-trapped binoculars were triggered before someone put them up to their face.[[/note]]
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* StrippedToTheBone: Bancroft disposes of Dr. Ballan's body dunking it in a HollywoodAcid that dissolves all of the flesh and muscle within seconds: leaving behind a spotless and undamaged skeleton.
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* SerialKiller: Horror writer Edmond Bancroft gains new inspiration by using antiques rigged as torture devices to commit murder so he can write about it in the tabloids.
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* ShoePhone: Bancroft uses several booby-trapped antiques to commit his murders. The most infamous is probably the binoculars that shoot spikes into the eyes of whoever looks into them.
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* LadyInRed: Bancroft's [[TheMistress mistress]] Joan combines this with PrettyInMink. It is especially noticeable when she is dancing solo to the jukebox and drawing the eye of every male in the room.
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* HeKnowsTooMuch: After Rick shows his girlfriend Angela Bancroft's secret museum in, Bancroft decides that Angela knows too much and hypnotizes Rick into murdering her.
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* HeKnowsTooMuch: After Rick shows his girlfriend Angela Bancroft's secret museum in, museum, Bancroft decides that Angela knows too much and hypnotizes Rick into murdering her.
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* BadBoss: Edmond Bancroft brainwashes his assistant Rick, then uses him as a test subject for a PsychoSerum and sending him out to commit murders on his behalf. This culminates in Rick being ordered to kill his own fiancée, Angela. And when Rick isn't been mind controlled, Bancroft is using him as general dogsbody and castigating him for the slightest slip.
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* FalseConfession: The police arrest a man named Tom Rivers who confesses to all four murders, with enough detail to make him convincing. However, he later starts confessing to additional murders, and talks about a death ray he is inventing, and the police realise that he is a serial fantasist. He is ultimately confined to a mental institution.
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* HeKnowsTooMuch: After Rick shows his girlfriend Angela Bancroft's secret museum in, Bancroft decides that Angela knows too much and hypnotizes Rick into murdering her.
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* TheMistress: Joan Berkley is Edmond Bancroft's mistress. The dialogue during their argument indicates that is a kept woman, living entirely off Bancroft's largess. When she gets sick of Bancroft and breaks off their arrangement, Bancroft sends Rick to murder her.
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* TunnelOfLove: Rick and Angela take a ride on the Tunnel of Love at the funfair. While they are in the tunnel, Rick tranforms into the killer and stabs Angela just as the boat emerges.
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* TakingYouWithMe: Rick's final act is to take Bancroft with him. He leaps off the Ferris wheel, being shot by the police in the process, but landing on top of Bancroft and plunging his knife into heart as he dies.
* TunnelOfLove: Rick and Angela take a ride on the Tunnel of Love at the funfair. While they are in the tunnel, Ricktranforms transforms into the killer Monster Killer and stabs Angela just as the boat emerges.
* TunnelOfLove: Rick and Angela take a ride on the Tunnel of Love at the funfair. While they are in the tunnel, Rick
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* ClimbingClimax: During the climax, Rick attempts to escape from the police at the funfair by climbing up a Ferris wheel.
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* PsychoSerum: Bancroft creates a serum that uses on his assistant Rick, that grants Rick the 'gift' of absolute obedience. It also grants him superhuman strength, drives him into a berserk fury, and distorts his face into a hideous mask.
* TunnelOfLove: Rick and Angela take a ride on the Tunnel of Love at the funfair. While they are in the tunnel, Rick tranforms into the killer and stabs Angela just as the boat emerges.
* TunnelOfLove: Rick and Angela take a ride on the Tunnel of Love at the funfair. While they are in the tunnel, Rick tranforms into the killer and stabs Angela just as the boat emerges.
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* PsychoSerum: Bancroft creates a serum that he uses on his assistant Rick, that grants Rick the 'gift' of absolute obedience. It also grants him superhuman strength, drives him into a berserk fury, and distorts his face into a hideous mask.
* TunnelOfLove: Rick and Angela take a ride on the Tunnel of Love at the funfair. While they are in the tunnel, Rick tranforms into the killer and stabs Angela just as the boatemerges.emerges.
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* PsychoSerum: Bancroft creates a serum that uses on his assistant Rick, that grants Rick the 'gift' of absolute obedience. It also grants him superhuman strength, drives him into a berserk fury, and distorts his face into a hideous mask.
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* EvilCripple: Bancroft is the mastermind behind the reign of terror of the 'Monster Killer'. He has a crippled leg and cannot walk without the aid of a cane.
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* PrettyInMink: Bancroft's mistress Joan dons a mink stole when she goes out for a night of fun following her argument with Bancroft.
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* PrettyInMink: Bancroft's mistress Joan dons a mink stole when she goes out for a night of fun following her argument with Bancroft.Bancroft.
* TunnelOfLove: Rick and Angela take a ride on the Tunnel of Love at the funfair. While they are in the tunnel, Rick tranforms into the killer and stabs Angela just as the boat emerges.
* TunnelOfLove: Rick and Angela take a ride on the Tunnel of Love at the funfair. While they are in the tunnel, Rick tranforms into the killer and stabs Angela just as the boat emerges.
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* HighVoltageDeath: When Dr. Ballan gets too close to figuring out Bancroft's secret, Bancroft murders him tricking him into standing between the two ends of an electrical arc, and then activating the arc.
* HollywoodAcid: Bancroft disposes of Dr. Ballan's body by lowering it into a vat of acid that strips the flesh from the bones in a matter of seconds.
* HollywoodAcid: Bancroft disposes of Dr. Ballan's body by lowering it into a vat of acid that strips the flesh from the bones in a matter of seconds.
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* OffWithHerHead: The killer uses a portable guillotine to decapitate Joan in her bed.
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''Horrors of the Black Museum'' is a 1959 British-American horror film starring Creator/MichaelGough and directed by Arthur Crabtree.
Seeking the right note of verisimilitude for his upcoming novel, a blocked mystery writer decides to hypnotize his assistant into becoming a deformed killer so that he can witness the deaths first-hand. A number of creative deaths follow.
!!Tropes in ''Horrors of the Black Museum'' include:
* CaneFu: In a fury, Bancroft attempts to strike his mistress with his cane, only to have her snatch it off him, leaving him helpless.
* EyeScream: The film opens with a scene in which a woman is shown with blood running between the fingers pressed to her face, followed by a shot of binoculars with ''spikes at the eye-pieces''. It is allegedly based on a real case.
* PrettyInMink: Bancroft's mistress Joan dons a mink stole when she goes out for a night of fun following her argument with Bancroft.
Seeking the right note of verisimilitude for his upcoming novel, a blocked mystery writer decides to hypnotize his assistant into becoming a deformed killer so that he can witness the deaths first-hand. A number of creative deaths follow.
!!Tropes in ''Horrors of the Black Museum'' include:
* CaneFu: In a fury, Bancroft attempts to strike his mistress with his cane, only to have her snatch it off him, leaving him helpless.
* EyeScream: The film opens with a scene in which a woman is shown with blood running between the fingers pressed to her face, followed by a shot of binoculars with ''spikes at the eye-pieces''. It is allegedly based on a real case.
* PrettyInMink: Bancroft's mistress Joan dons a mink stole when she goes out for a night of fun following her argument with Bancroft.
