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There's some ugly-as-hell masked killer roaming the town who abducts
pretty girls but never leaves a clue. And despite the police being
clue-less (in the original sense of the word), all the attention soon
focuses on a boarding house where three of the lodgers would fit the
profile of the killer to the T: There's Doctor Raúl (Julio Alemán), a
successful physician who in his spare time experiments on corpses he has
two gravediggers steal from the local cemetary, there's Luis (Joaquín
Cordero), once the greatest stage actor of them all, but since a terrible
accident that crippled him doomed to run a wax museum in a theatre he once
playedin, and there's professor Abramov (Carlos López Moctezuma), an
arrogant embalmer who as a sideline sells skeletons to schools and
universities. What makes this house even more suspicious is that a couple
of murders happen there, one a beautiful lodger (Olivia Michel), the other
a key witness (Armando Soto La Marina). There's an explosive situation
between Raúl and Luis as well, as Raúl and Marta (Patricia Conde),
daughter of the boarding house owner, were childhood sweethearts and
pretty much promised to one another, but now she has fallen in love with
Luis, driving Raúl mad with jealousy. Then though her mother finds out
who's the killer but is almost killed before she can tell ... but faints
without saying a word. And while she's transferred to the hospital, Marta
rushes to Luis for comfort ... to find out he plans to make her the latest
addition to his wax museum, as he - shocker - always takes real life
models to pretty much inhabit his figures. He almost succeeds in doing so,
too, but at the very last moment, Raúl rushes to the rescue, justice is
served, and he also gets the girl in the end. Now let's get one
thing straight, Museo del Horror has by no means re-invented the
horror genre, not even the wax museum subgenre ... but that said, it's
pretty good as what it does, this being telling a formulaic horror story.
Sure, you've seen it all before (even from 1964's point of view), and
probably better even, but this is a well-told shocker nevertheless, with
scary scenes in all the right places, plenty of suspense, and despite the
killer being seemingly obvious, the film succeeds in keeping one guessing
to the end. Again, no masterpiece, but good genre entertainment at least.
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