Herbert Lom and Jason Robards star as a disfigured murderer and a duplicitous actor, locking horns over their love for the same woman in this sumptuous-looking arthouse horror that riffs on Poe's classic murder mystery. One of Gordon Hessler and Chris Wicking's acclaimed run of films for AIP UK, Murders in the Rue Morgue has been painstakingly restored by Hammer in 4K from the original film negatives. It is presented here as both Hessler's original director's cut and AIP's re-edited theatrical version.
Madeline, the leading lady of a Parisian "grand guignol" theatre troupe, is haunted by visions of an axe-wielding maniac. When a member of her acting company is horribly murdered, she fears that more will follow.
