Murders in the Rue Morgue
“LOVE and MURDER are the two consuming passions of the Rue Morgue!”
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In Paris, in the beginning of the Twentieth Century, Cesar Charron owns a theater at the Rue Morgue where he performs the play "Murders in the Rue Morgue" with his wife Madeleine Charron, who has dreadful nightmares. When there are several murders by acid of people connected to Cesar, the prime suspect of Inspector Vidocq would be Cesar's former partner Rene Marot. But Marot murdered Madeleine's mother many years ago and committed suicide immediately after.
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A blood-soaked, theatrical descent into madness. This film feels like a fever dream staged in a Parisian opera house, where the line between performance and reality blurs into a gruesome spectacle.
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