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Friday night at the home drive-in: Chamber of Horrors AKA The Door with Seven Locks (1940)

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I don’t think I ever saw Chamber of Horrors AKA The Door with Seven Locks (1940) on late night TV – although I could have. It has all of the elements that I recognize from classic “Old Dark House” movies of the 1930s and ’40s. Eyes watching a character through the eyes of painting on the wall, dead bodies that disappear when a character tries to point them out, a mad villain with a collection of torture devices (well, maybe that one is a little less common, but…), etc. Continue reading →