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Title: A Classic of the Genre
Review: Showing a strong hommage to the silent "Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" and strangely anticipating "King Kong" in certain sequences, "Murders in the Rue Morgue" is an atmospheric thriller which remains surprisingly gruesome some sixty years after it was made. At the time of its release, the film was considered so grotesque that it ran into considerable censorship trouble in Europe, particularly in England. A very tight running running time (just over an hour) keeps the action flowing, and the laboratory scenes are particularly shuddery. A classic of the genre.
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