Michael Gough gives a gloriously overwrought performance in this notorious 1959 horror feature. A box-office triumph, it was shot at Merton Park Studios in the relatively new CinemaScope format and presented with the additional gimmick of 'HypnoVista'. Horrors of the Black Museum was the first in what has been dubbed Anglo-Amalgamated's 'Sadian trilogy' (with Circus of Horrors and Peeping Tom), in which the keynote is sensationalistic, sexually charged violence. It is … mehrfeatured here in a brand-new transfer from original film elements in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio.

When a series of grisly, macabre and seemingly motiveless murders leaves Scotland Yard baffled, leading crime writer and journalist Edward Bancroft is following events with particular interest. But Bancroft is not what he seems, and woe betide anyone who gets in his way...

Extras:
Audio commentary by music composer Gerard Schurmann, moderated by film critic David Del Valle (2003)
Audio commentary by producer Herman Cohen (1997)
"Herman Cohen: Cohen My Way by Didier Chatelain & Tom Weaver" 2003 interview (19:49)
Audio interview with producer Herman Cohen by Scarlet Street's Jessie Lilly (10:56)
Hypno-Vista Opening featuring psychologist Emile Franchel (11:47)
Animated Photo Gallery (3:23)
Trailers:
- American Theatrical Trailer (3:15)
- European Theatrical Trailer (2:55)
- Bonus Trailers:
-- "Target Earth" (2:09)
-- "Headless Ghost" (1:53)
-- "Blood & Black Lace" (1:03)
-- "The Whip and the Body" (3:22)
-- "The City of the Dead" (1:33)
-- "Ruby" (2:26)
-- "The Bird with the Crystal Plumage" (2:44)
Biographies of Cast (moving text):
- Michael Gough (2:50)
- June Cunningham (0:59)
- Graham Curnow (1:57)
- Shirley Ann Field (1:59)
- Arthur Crabtree (1:53) weniger