Blu-ray Review – The Mansion of Madness

1973’s “The Mansion of Madness” is an adaptation of the Edgar Allan Poe short story, “The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether.” Director Juan Lopez Moctezuma is tasked with taking a small amount of pages and turning it into a feature film, and the stretchmarks of this labor are visible throughout the viewing experience. Taking a surreal route to cinematic puzzling, Moctezuma goes the Jodorowsky way with the endeavor, which isn’t interested in the storytelling strengths of Poe’s work. The picture is more attracted to the theatricality of insanity, supplying an episodic journey into a special kind of Hell that’s not always interesting to watch, while some parts need to be endured. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com