Murders in the Rue Morgue
HorrorMysteryCrime
6.1/10
|US
|en
|61 min
Release Date: 1932-01-27
Overview - 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.
Production Companies
Universal Pictures
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CinemaSerf
7/10
Bela Lugosi is at his most rigid best in this eerily spooky adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's story. It's 1800s Paris and amidst the fog and the cobblestones streets, young women are being kidnapped and disappearing without trace. What's this to do with "Mirakle" (Lugosi)? Well we quite quickly discover that he is working on a Darwin-esque plan to prove the relationship between human beings and apes...
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