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Murders in the Rue Morgue
Crime, Horror, Mystery
In 19th century Paris, a maniac abducts young women and injects them with ape blood in an attempt to prove ape-human kinship but constantly meets failure as the abducted women die.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who enjoy atmospheric pre-Code horror, grotesque mad-scientist premises, and theatrical black-and-white menace.
- Tone
- eerie, dread, campy
- Payoff
- scares, unease
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- intense
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- scientific obsession, forbidden experimentation, prejudice, violence against women
- Setting
- nineteenth-century, shadowy Parisian streets, laboratories, and carnival spaces
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