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* DealWithTheDevil: In "The Man Who Collected Poe", Poe tells Wyatt that freeing someone from a deal with the devil means that the person who freed them then becomes a slave to the devil: possibly a fraction too late to save Wyatt from the consequences of his action.
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* HypnoPendulum: Dr. Diabolo tells his customers to stare at the highly reflective shears of Atropos. He talks at them in a low, monotone and reflected light from the shears plays across their eyes; putting them into a trance.
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* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: At the end of the epilogue, Dr. Diabolo puts the shears back into the hand of Atropos, and then breaks the fourth wall by addressing three words to the audience, thereby revealing himself actually to be the Devil.
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* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: At the end of the epilogue, The epilogue ends with Dr. Diabolo puts the shears back into the hand Diabolo, a distinctly playful Satan, saying that it's only sporting to give his clients a chance of Atropos, and then breaks the fourth wall by addressing three words to the audience, thereby revealing himself actually to be the Devil.escaping his domain; "...but will YOU?"
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* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: At the end of the epilogue, Dr. Diabolo puts the shears back into the hand of Atropos, and then breaks the fourth wall by addressing three words to the audience, thereby revealing himself actually to be the Devil.
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* TheShill: In the epilogue, the fifth patron goes berserk and uses [[ShearMenace the shears of Atropos to "kill" Dr. Diabolo]] in front of the others, causing them to panic and flee. It is then shown that he is working for Diabolo, and [[FakingTheDead the whole thing was faked]].
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* DistinguishedGentlemansPipe: Edgar Allan Poe scholar and collector Ronald Wyatt smokes a pipe right through the film.
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* CatsAreMean: In "Enoch" Colin Williams frees a cat from a grave. Under the influence of this cat--which Colin believes to be an evil spirit and witch's familiar in the form of cat--he commits murder for the cat, who has a taste for human blood. In exchange, the cat provides him with riches.
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* CatsAreMean: In "Enoch" "Enoch", Colin Williams frees a cat from a grave. Under the influence of this cat--which Colin believes to be an evil spirit and witch's familiar in the form of cat--he commits murder for the cat, who has a taste for human blood. In exchange, the cat provides him with riches.
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* BrainUploading: In "Terror Over Hollywood", the Hollywood elite of actors, directors, and producers who seem to maintain their popularity and youth for decades have all had their brains uploaded in robot bodies.
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''Torture Garden'' is a 1967 British anthology horror film made by Creator/AmicusProductions and directed by Freddie Francis, scripted by Creator/RobertBloch, and starring Burgess Meredith, Creator/JackPalance, Michael Ripper, Beverly Adams, Creator/PeterCushing, Maurice Denham, Ursula Howells, Michael Bryant and Barbara Ewing.
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''Torture Garden'' is a 1967 British anthology horror film made by Creator/AmicusProductions and directed by Freddie Francis, scripted by Creator/RobertBloch, and starring Burgess Meredith, Creator/BurgessMeredith, Creator/JackPalance, Michael Ripper, Beverly Adams, Creator/PeterCushing, Maurice Denham, Ursula Howells, Michael Bryant and Barbara Ewing.
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* ThePlace: The Torture Garden is the name of Dr. Diabolo's carnival attaraction.
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* OffWithHisHead: The evil cat in "Enoch" demands that the heads of the victims his servants kill for him have their heads removed. When Colin can no longer kill people because he is imprisoned, the cat visits him in his cell. When the constable next checks on him, Colin headless corpse is lying on his bunk.
* ThePlace: The Torture Garden is the name of Dr. Diabolo's carnivalattaraction.attraction.
* ThePlace: The Torture Garden is the name of Dr. Diabolo's carnival
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* ItWasHereISwear: In "Enoch", the cat appears in Colin's cell. Panicked, he yells out for the constable. The constable arrives and asks what the problem is. Colin starts babbling about the cat and points at the window sill, but the cat is not there and cannot be seen anywhere in the empty cell. Later the constable returns to find Colin dead and his head missing.
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* TheCollector: "The Man Who Collected Poe" showcases the rivalry between two obsessive Creator/EdagrAllanPoe collectors. One of the the two, Lancelot Canning, is a third generation Poe collector and his rival, Ronald Wyatt, eventually discovers Canning's greatest secret: his grandfather was a [[GraveRobbing grave robber]] who stole Poe's remains from the cemetery and used black magic to resurrect him. Canning has the now immortal Poe a prisoner in his basement, where he is forced to scribe new tales for him.
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* TheCollector: "The Man Who Collected Poe" showcases the rivalry between two obsessive Creator/EdagrAllanPoe Edgar Allan Poe collectors. One of the the two, Lancelot Canning, is a third generation Poe collector and his rival, Ronald Wyatt, eventually discovers Canning's greatest secret: his grandfather was a [[GraveRobbing grave robber]] who stole Poe's remains from the cemetery and used black magic to resurrect him. Canning has the now immortal Poe a prisoner in his basement, where he is forced to scribe new tales for him.
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* DisposableVagrant: The first victim Colin murders at the behest of the cat in "Enoch" is a tramp he finds sleeping in the barn.
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* TheCollector: "The Man Who Collected Poe" showcases the rivalry between two obsessive Creator/EdagrAllanPoe collectors. One of the the two, Lancelot Canning, is a third generation Poe collector and his rival, Ronald Wyatt, eventually discovers Canning's greatest secret: his grandfather was a [[GraveRobbing grave robber]] who stole Poe's remains from the cemetery and used black magic to resurrect him. Canning has the now immortal Poe a prisoner in his basement, where he is forced to scribe new tales for him.
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* MoneyToBurn: After his customers pass into the private chamber, Dr. Diabolo tosses the five pound notes they gave him into the burning brazier. This is the first indication that Diabolo is not the simple huckster he appears to be.
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* KillItWithFire: In "The Man Who Collected Poe", Wyatt frees Poe from [[WhoWantsToLiveForever the burden of his unwanted immortal existence]] by setting fire to Poe's study with Poe inside it.
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* GraveRobbing: In "The Man Who Collected Poe", Lancelot Canning reveals that his grandfather was resurrection man who who stole bodies to supply medical schools. He also robbed Poe's grave and stole the dust of his mortal remains before using black magic to resurrect him.
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* WhoWantsToLiveForever: In "The Man Who Collected Poe", the resurrected Creator/EdgarAllenPoe finds his resurrected existence unbearable as he had welcomed the sweet embrace of death.
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* WhoWantsToLiveForever: In "The Man Who Collected Poe", the resurrected Creator/EdgarAllenPoe Creator/EdgarAllanPoe finds his resurrected existence unbearable as he had welcomed the sweet embrace of death.
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* WhoWantsToLiveForever: In "The Man Who Collected Poe", the resurrected Creator/EdgarAllenPoe finds his resurrected existence unbearable as he had welcomed the sweet embrace of death.
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* HereWeGoAgain: After Colin's death at the end of "Enoch", the cat enters the police station and starts using its mental influence on the local constable.
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* FakingTheDead: In the epilogue, the fifth patron goes berserk and uses [[ShearMenace the shears of Atropos to "kill" Dr. Diabolo]] in front of the others, causing them to panic and flee. It is then shown that he is working for Diabolo, and the whole thing was faked.
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* ShearMenace: In the epilogue, the fifth patron goes berserk and uses the shears of Atropos to "kill" Dr. Diabolo in front of the others, causing them to panic and flee.
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* MyBelovedSmother: Leo's mother is said to have been this in "Mr. Steinway": driving away all his girlfriends so they cannot disrupt his career. It is strongly implied that it is her spirit that is [[HauntedTechnology possessing his grand piano]].
* NeverSuicide: In "Terror Over Hollywood", Mike Charles threatens to spill the beans over the secret of the Top 10 who rule HorribleHollywood. A bartender in their employ knocks him out and leaves him locked inside his car inside his garage with the engine running.
* NeverSuicide: In "Terror Over Hollywood", Mike Charles threatens to spill the beans over the secret of the Top 10 who rule HorribleHollywood. A bartender in their employ knocks him out and leaves him locked inside his car inside his garage with the engine running.
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* AnachronisticClue: In "The Man Who Collected Poe", Ronald Wyatt realises that there is something wrong with Canning's story of undiscovered Poe manuscripts because they are written on paper with a modern watermark.
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* CatsAreMean: In "Enoch" Colin Williams frees a cat from a grave. Under the influence of this cat--which Colin believes to be an evil spirit and witch's familiar in the form of cat--he commits murder for the cat, who has a taste for human blood. In exchange, the cat provides him with riches.
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* HauntedTechnology: In "Mr. Steinway", a possessed Bechstein grand piano by [[ICakkItVera the name of Euterpe]] becomes jealous of its owner's new lover and takes revenge.
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* HauntedTechnology: In "Mr. Steinway", a possessed Bechstein grand piano by [[ICakkItVera [[ICallItVera the name of Euterpe]] becomes jealous of its owner's new lover and takes revenge.revenge.
* ICallItVera: In "Mr. Steinway", Leo's prized Bechstein grand piano is named Euterpe after the goddess of music.
* ICallItVera: In "Mr. Steinway", Leo's prized Bechstein grand piano is named Euterpe after the goddess of music.
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* HauntedTechnology: In "Mr. Steinway", a possessed Bechstein grand piano by [[ICakkItVera the name of Euterpe]] becomes jealous of its owner's new lover and takes revenge.
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* RoboticReveal: In "Terror Over Hollywood", Carla discovers the secret of the Hollywood Top 10 when when she scratches her co-star's face and discovers there is metal beneath the skin.
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* CouldntFindALighter: Dr. Diabolo uses a red hot poker from his torture exhibit to light his cigarette.
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* CouldntFindALighter: Dr. Diabolo uses a red hot poker from his torture exhibit to light his cigarette.cigarette.
* DeadMansChest: In "Enoch", Colin stuffs the bodies of the tramp and the nurse into a steamer trunk and is loading it into the boot of his car when the local bobby arrives to ask him some questions about the missing tramp. The helpful policeman offers to help Colin load the trunk and, as he is doing so, notices blood leaking from the corner of the trunk.
* GardeningVarietyWeapon: In "Enoch", Colin murders the DisposableVagrant sleeping in the barn with a pitchfork.
* ThePlace: The Torture Garden is the name of Dr. Diabolo's carnival attaraction.
* ShovelStrike: In "Enoch", the cat commands Colin to kill Nurse Parker. After she discovers the headless body of the tramp, Colin kills her with a shovel.
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* DeadMansChest: In "Enoch", Colin stuffs the bodies of the tramp and the nurse into a steamer trunk and is loading it into the boot of his car when the local bobby arrives to ask him some questions about the missing tramp. The helpful policeman offers to help Colin load the trunk and, as he is doing so, notices blood leaking from the corner of the trunk.
* GardeningVarietyWeapon: In "Enoch", Colin murders the DisposableVagrant sleeping in the barn with a pitchfork.
* ThePlace: The Torture Garden is the name of Dr. Diabolo's carnival attaraction.
* ShovelStrike: In "Enoch", the cat commands Colin to kill Nurse Parker. After she discovers the headless body of the tramp, Colin kills her with a shovel.
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Five people visit a fairground sideshow run by showman Dr. Diabolo (Burgess Meredith). Having shown them a handful of haunted house-style attractions, he promises them a genuinely scary experience if they will pay extra. Their curiosity gets the better of them, and the small crowd follows him behind a curtain, where they each view their fate through the shears of an effigy of the female deity Atropos.
* In "Enoch", a greedy playboy (Michael Bryant) takes advantage of his dying uncle (Maurice Denham), and falls under the spell of a man-eating cat.
* In "Terror Over Hollywood", a Hollywood starlet (Beverly Adams) discovers her co-stars are androids.
* In "Mr. Steinway", a possessed Bechstein grand piano by the name of Euterpe becomes jealous of its owner (John Standing)'s new lover (Barbara Ewing) and takes revenge.
* In "The Man Who Collected Poe", a Poe collector (Jack Palance) murders another collector (Peter Cushing) over a collectable he refuses to show him, only to find it is Creator/EdgarAllanPoe himself (Hedger Wallace).
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* ActorAllusion: In his showman persona, Dr. Diabolo wears a top hat and smokes cigarettes in a long holder, just as actor Burgess Meredith had done when playing the Penguin in ''Series/Batman1966''.
* AndStarring: Barbara Ewing gets an "And Introducing Barbara Ewing" at the end of the opening credits.
* CatScare: In "Enoch", Colin is startled when a cat jumps out of the coffin he opens. Perhaps a few moments consideration might have had him wondering what a live cat was doing inside a sealed, buried coffin...
* CouldntFindALighter: Dr. Diabolo uses a red hot poker from his torture exhibit to light his cigarette.
Five people visit a fairground sideshow run by showman Dr. Diabolo (Burgess Meredith). Having shown them a handful of haunted house-style attractions, he promises them a genuinely scary experience if they will pay extra. Their curiosity gets the better of them, and the small crowd follows him behind a curtain, where they each view their fate through the shears of an effigy of the female deity Atropos.
* In "Enoch", a greedy playboy (Michael Bryant) takes advantage of his dying uncle (Maurice Denham), and falls under the spell of a man-eating cat.
* In "Terror Over Hollywood", a Hollywood starlet (Beverly Adams) discovers her co-stars are androids.
* In "Mr. Steinway", a possessed Bechstein grand piano by the name of Euterpe becomes jealous of its owner (John Standing)'s new lover (Barbara Ewing) and takes revenge.
* In "The Man Who Collected Poe", a Poe collector (Jack Palance) murders another collector (Peter Cushing) over a collectable he refuses to show him, only to find it is Creator/EdgarAllanPoe himself (Hedger Wallace).
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* ActorAllusion: In his showman persona, Dr. Diabolo wears a top hat and smokes cigarettes in a long holder, just as actor Burgess Meredith had done when playing the Penguin in ''Series/Batman1966''.
* AndStarring: Barbara Ewing gets an "And Introducing Barbara Ewing" at the end of the opening credits.
* CatScare: In "Enoch", Colin is startled when a cat jumps out of the coffin he opens. Perhaps a few moments consideration might have had him wondering what a live cat was doing inside a sealed, buried coffin...
* CouldntFindALighter: Dr. Diabolo uses a red hot poker from his torture exhibit to light his cigarette.
