Horrors of the Black Museum/Fun Facts
From The Grindhouse Cinema Database
< Horrors of the Black Museum
- Actor Graham Curnow was the lover of Victor Spinetti and used his salary from this film to buy a flat on Manchester Street in London, where they set up housekeeping.
- This was the first American International release to be in both color and Cinemascope.
- The VCI Entertainment DVD release promises a "European Remastered Version" running 94 minutes. The disc contains only the standard British release running 78 minutes.
- Final film of director Arthur Crabtree.
- Last full length feature of Beatrice Varley.
- The film was given a wide release in the US on a double bill with The Headless Ghost. It was very popular and earned over $1 million in profits.
- When the movie was released on television they had to take off the hypnotism prologue "because it does hypnotize some people."
- The film was inducted into the Museum of Modern Art at the behest of Martin Scorsese.
