Phantom of the Rue Morgue

This big-budget remake of 1932’s Murders in the Rue Morgue, which was based on an Edgar Allen Poe tale, this horror outing was originally shown in 3-D and tells the grim tale of how a mad zookeeper and his murderous, thieving monkey terrorized Parisians in the early 1900s. A young Merv Griffin plays a bit part as a college student., Adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s “Murders in the Rue Morgue,” about a crazed scientist who uses a trained gorilla to exact revenge on those who’ve wronged him, including three Frenchwomen who’ve spurned his advances.