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Release Date: 1973

Cast: Peter McEnery, Donald Houston, Georgia Brown, Michael Jayston, Suzy Kendall, Donald Pleasence, Michael Petrovitch, Zohra Sehgal, Jack Hawkins, Kim Novak, Joan Collins

Categories: Movies, Natural Horror Films, Horror Comedy, Horror, Comedy

Tales That Witness Madness is a 1973 British horror film produced by Norman Priggen, directed by veteran horror director Freddie Francis, and written by actress Jennifer Jayne. It was one of several in a series of portmanteau films made during the 1960s and 1970s which included Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1965), Torture Garden (1967), The House That Dripped Blood (1970), Asylum (1972), Tales from the Crypt (1972), The Vault of Horror (film) (1973), and From Beyond the Grave (1973). This is similar to the Amicus portmanteau horror films of the time, but was not an Amicus production. It... MORE

Tales That Witness Madness is a 1973 British horror film produced by Norman Priggen, directed by veteran horror director Freddie Francis, and written by actress Jennifer Jayne. It was one of several in a series of portmanteau films made during the 1960s and 1970s which included Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1965), Torture Garden (1967), The House That Dripped Blood (1970), Asylum (1972), Tales from the Crypt (1972), The Vault of Horror (film) (1973), and From Beyond the Grave (1973). This is similar to the Amicus portmanteau horror films of the time, but was not an Amicus production. It was produced by World Film Services. The Encyclopedia of Horror says the film "avoids farce and develops a nicely deadpan style of humour which is ably sustained by the excellent cast in which only Novak appears unable to hit the right note." In the Framing Story, a psychiatrist in a high tech modern mental asylum, Dr. Tremayne (Donald Pleasence), discusses a bold new psychiatric theory with colleague Dr. Nicholas (Jack Hawkins). Tremayne uses four patients who went insane - Paul, Timothy, Brian and Auriol - to illustrate the theory, presenting each in turn to Nicholas: In Mr. Tiger, Paul (Russell LESS