Escapement

Mar 4, 1958

1h 20m

★ 4.1

SWEET-FLESHED BEAUTY BECOMES DOCILE OF DEMONIACAL MONSTER!

Overview

An insurance investigator tumbles onto a series of similar deaths, by brain hemorrhage, of patients of a psychiatric clinic in France where therapy involves a device which can implant visual imagery in the minds of patients, ostensibly to help them relax.

Genres

Mystery

Crime

Science Fiction

Production Companies

Merton Park Studios

Escapement Trailers

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Cast

Jeff Keenan

Rod Cameron

Ruth Vance

Mary Murphy

Doctor Maxwell

Meredith Edwards

Paul Zakon

Peter Illing

Doctor Hoff

Carl Jaffe

Laura Maxwell

Kay Callard

Blore

Carl Duering

Verna Berteaux

Roberta Huby

Commissaire

Felix Felton

Brad Somers

Larry Cross

Signore Kallini

Carlo Borelli

Clark Denver

John McCarthy

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