The Horrible Dr. Hichcock
- IMDb link: 0056315
- IMDb rating: 6.3 (2,341 votes) Search
- Genres: Horror
- Director: Riccardo Freda
- Cast: Barbara Steele, Robert Flemyng, Silvano Tranquilli, Maria Teresa Vianello and others
- Release date: 2 Dec 1964
- Release year: 1962
- Runtime: 76 minutes
- Country: Italy
- Keywords: necrophiliac, italian gothic, hospital, premature burial, second wife, necrophilia, gone insane, insane wife, mistaken for dead, sexual role play
Plot
Storyline
In 1897 London, a woman weds a necrophiliac doctor whose first wife died under mysterious circumstances - and who might be returning from the grave to torment her successor.
In the Nineteenth Century, in London, Prof. Bernard Hichcock is married with Margaretha Hichcock and they live in a house with their maid Martha. Out of the blue, Margaretha dies and Dr. Hichcock leaves his house with Martha and travels. Years later, he returns to London remarried with the young Cinzia Hichcock and meets Martha in the house. But soon Cinzia sees and hears strange things and feels uncomfortable at home. When Dr. Hichcock gives a glass of milk to Cinzia, she throws it off but keeps a sample in the glass. Then she asks her friend Dr. Kurt Lowe to analyze the milk, and he learns that there is a high quantity of poison. What will Cinzia and Dr. Lowe do?
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