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Randallw201238
Since: Sep, 2012
JayTDawgzone
Since: Feb, 2016
2017-04-12 22:29:38
Murders in the Rue Morgue (1971)??? http://www.afi.com/members//catalog/AbbrView.aspx?s=&Movie=54182

Okay, so this film has been driving me crazy for years. Both my friend and I have tried to find it and have failed terribly. I can remember the plot and most scenes in the movie, but not the actual title. I don't know the year it came out, but it was older, because of the cheesy practical effects, such being the whole bright red paint for blood. I also saw it on the tv channel This Tv, if that helps anyone.
The basic plot of the movie is basically a man with a disfigured face (with a mask), due to acid being splashed onto his face during a scene in a play/musical, going on a roaring rampage of revenge in a theater, while stalking the young star of the theater. Hense why it seems so close to the (various) POTO films. However, I've looked at many, many POTO movies, and none of them are the same. The closest one that I could find was the 1962 film version, but it wasn't it. As the 'phantom.' in the movie I'm looking for, only had a half-mask and had long black hair which he put into a ponytail.
As it turns out the the young woman is the daughter of the woman the masked man loved, and she is married to the guy who was also in love with young woman's mother, and ended up killing the mother because he couldn't handle the woman loving the masked guy. The husband was also the person who switched up the water phial with a thing of acid to burn the guy's face, hoping to make the mother love him instead. Obviously it fails, and the mother ends up getting her head chopped off with an axe, the disfigured-man is blamed, and so he falls into a river and is swept away, but survives.
Flash foward a decade or two, and the young woman is doing quite nicely until she is stalked by the masked guy, who in the meantime has befriended a dwarf, and the masked-guy uses hypnosis on her to make her start sleepwalking.There is even a scene where the masked guy kills a woman by dousing her with acid. The woman eventurally gets to the masked guy's layer, which isn't in the sewer, and the husband follows, and is possibly hypnotised? I don't remember, but the masked guy ends up chopping the husband's head off with the same axe used in the mother's murder. The young woman is then chased by the masked guy up into the stage rafters, all the while the guy screaming that he loved her. She ends up choping a rope or two, which causes the guy to fall to his death. Then everyting goes back to normal, until it's revealed that the dwarf still lives and has an obsession with the young woman as well.
I would be very grateful for anyone's help to find this film.
Edited by SarcasticCharmer99