The Murder Clinic
- Year: 1966
- Country of origin: Italy, France
- Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
- Director: Elio Scardamaglia, Lionello De Felice
- Length: 86 min
Bone-chilling! The thing is subhuman and it has a knife!
Film Synopsis
The Murder Clinic (1966) follows a secluded asylum where patients and staff are terrorized by a series of brutal murders. As paranoia spreads, dark experiments and hidden obsessions point toward a sinister truth lurking within its walls. This gothic horror thriller blends eerie atmosphere, psychological suspense, and macabre violence in a tale of madness, secrecy, and death.
Critical Perspective
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The film straddles the boundary between Gothic horror and the giallo. In this respect, it calls to mind Mario Bava’s The Whip and the Body (1963), but while the Bava film only flirted with giallo trappings and spent much of its time on the inner turmoil of its protaganist, this film is much more in line with the giallo proper, with its wide array of shifty red herrings and razor-wielding maniac dressed in black.
Troy Howarth, So Deadly, So Perverse: 50 Years of Italian Giallo Films, Volume 1, 1963-1973 (Midnight Marquee Press, 2015)
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Edition and Packaging Notes
- FilmArt’s Blu-ray is also available as a “Limited Edition” containing a 44-page booklet. Trailers included: La coda dello scorpione (1971), Lo strano vizio della Signora Wardh (1971), Amore e morte nel giardino degli dei (1972), Das Auge des Bösen (1972) and Il mostro di Firenze (1986).
- Code Red’s DVD contains no extras. It is included in the “Six Pack Volume Two” box set with The Swingin’ Stewardesses (1971), The Loners (1972), Swap Meet at the Love Shack (1973), Swingin’ Swappers (1973) and Naughty School Girls (1975).
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Collector’s guide
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FilmArt BD 2015
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| Extras | Alternate Scenes FilmArt BD |
| German Theatrical Trailer FilmArt BD |