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* ArtisticLicenseBiology: In "Enoch", the evil cat is male, but the cat playing it is a tortoiseshell, which is nearly always female.
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* InNameOnly: The film has nothing to do with the apparent source of its name, the Decadent novel ''The Torture Garden'' (''Le Jardin des supplices'') by Octave Mirbeau.

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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 Creator/BurgessMeredith, Creator/JackPalance, Michael Ripper, Beverly Adams, Creator/PeterCushing, Maurice Denham, Ursula Howells, Michael Bryant and Barbara Ewing.

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.

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''Torture Garden'' is a 1967 British anthology horror film made by Creator/AmicusProductions and AnthologyFilm from Creator/AmicusProductions, directed by Freddie Francis, scripted by Creator/RobertBloch, and starring Creator/JackPalance, Creator/BurgessMeredith, Creator/JackPalance, Michael Ripper, Beverly Adams, Creator/PeterCushing, Maurice Denham, Ursula Howells, Michael Bryant and Barbara Ewing.

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Five people visit a fairground sideshow run by showman Dr. Diabolo (Burgess Meredith).(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. \n

* In "Enoch", a greedy playboy (Michael Bryant) takes advantage of his dying uncle (Maurice Denham), (Denham), and falls under the spell of a man-eating cat.
* In "Terror Over Hollywood", a Hollywood starlet (Beverly Adams) (Adams) discovers her co-stars are androids.



* 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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* In "The Man Who Collected Poe", a Poe collector (Jack Palance) (Palance) murders another collector (Peter Cushing) (Cushing) over a collectable he refuses to show him, only to find it is Creator/EdgarAllanPoe himself (Hedger Wallace).
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The Shill is being merged into The Con per TRS. I am not sure this is an example?


* 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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* 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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* 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 into robot bodies.
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* LouisCypher: At the end of the film, Dr. Diabolo turns around in a TheFouthWallWillNotProtectYou moment with his earlier horror makeup magically restored, revealing him to be the Devil.

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* LouisCypher: At the end of the film, Dr. Diabolo turns around in a TheFouthWallWillNotProtectYou TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou moment with his earlier horror makeup magically restored, revealing him to be the Devil.
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* LouisCypher: At the end of the film, Dr. Diabolo turns around in a TheFouthWallWillNotProtectYou moment with his earlier horror makeup magically restored, revealing him to be the Devil.
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* HerrDoktor: In "Terror Over Hollywood", Dr. Heim is refugee from Nazi Germany who has been secretly [[BrainUploading uploading the brains]] of the Hollywood into robot bodies since the 1940s.

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* HerrDoktor: In "Terror Over Hollywood", Dr. Heim is refugee from Nazi Germany who has been secretly [[BrainUploading uploading the brains]] of the Hollywood elite into robot bodies since the 1940s.

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* HorribleHollywood: Young starlet Carla Hayes deliberately ruins her housemate's dress so she can steal a date her housemate's date with a producer. She then dumps the producer to go out with a Hollywood leading man. As she climbs the ladder, she inadvertently discoveres that Hollywood is controlled by an elite that have had their [[BrainUploading brains uploaded]] into robot bodies.

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* HerrDoktor: In "Terror Over Hollywood", Dr. Heim is refugee from Nazi Germany who has been secretly [[BrainUploading uploading the brains]] of the Hollywood into robot bodies since the 1940s.
* HorribleHollywood: Young Ruthless young starlet Carla Hayes deliberately ruins her housemate's dress so she can steal a date her housemate's date with a producer. She then dumps the producer to go out with a Hollywood leading man. As she climbs the ladder, she inadvertently discoveres discovers that Hollywood is controlled by an elite that have had their [[BrainUploading brains uploaded]] into robot bodies.
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* HorribleHollywood: Young starlet Carla Hayes deliberately ruins her housemate's dress so she can steal a date her housemate's date with a producer. She then dumps the producer to go out with a Hollywood leading man. As she climbs the ladder, she inadvertently discoveres that Hollywood is controlled by an elite that have had their [[BrainUploading brains uploaded]] into robot bodies.

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