Madhouse (also known as The Revenge of Dr. Death) is a 1974 horror film directed by Jim Clark for Amicus Productions in association with American International Pictures.

[1][2] The film, which is a British-American co-production, stars Vincent Price, Natasha Pyne, Peter Cushing, Robert Quarry, Adrienne Corri, and Linda Hayden.

Distraught at Paul's angry reaction, Ellen returns to her room, where a masked man in a Dr. Death's costume approaches her with a knife.

Twelve years later, Paul is called to London by his friend, screenwriter Herbert Flay, who has partnered with Quayle to produce a Dr. Death television series for the BBC.

While on the cruise en route to England, Paul encounters a persistent young actress, Elizabeth Peters, who steals his watch and follows him through London and eventually to Flay's house.

In the spider-infested basement, Paul discovers Faye Carstairs, Flay's wife and a former Dr. Death co-star, who was driven mad after being disfigured in a car accident.

Outside Flay's house, Elizabeth sees the costumed figure stalking the grounds; believing it to be Paul, she approaches him and is killed with a pitchfork.

It was the last film to feature Price for American International, as his contract was not renewed (the feeling was mutual, as he once referred to Arkoff and his colleagues as "those cocksuckers!

[11] The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "The tale of an actor's revenge, exacted by Hammer veteran Peter Cushing on AIP stalwart Vincent Price, Madhouse borrows a trick from last year's Theatre of Blood – allowing Price's baroque, hypersensitive acting style to become the subject of the film – and pusillanimously fritters it away.

Michael Parkinson gets to chair a chat-show with 'Doctor Death', and AIP get to run through clips from just about all the Corman-Poe movies as highlights from the Doctor's own screen canon.

Madhouse finds that particular joke rather hard to cap; its equivalent scene – a quite fitting final conceit in which Price, having stolen Cushing's thunder, sets about stealing his appearance in order to return to the screen – is carried out with little invention or panache.