Black Zoo (1963)
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33% of users liked it
(59 ratings)
This violent, gore-filled, effective horror tale by director Robert Gordon is about a totally wacko private zoo keeper, Michael Conrad (Michael Gough) whose literal worship of the animals he tends -- especially the cat species -- starkly contrasts with his cold-blooded disregard for human life.… More This violent, gore-filled, effective horror tale by director Robert Gordon is about a totally wacko private zoo keeper, Michael Conrad (Michael Gough) whose literal worship of the animals he tends -- especially the cat species -- starkly contrasts with his cold-blooded disregard for human life. Conrad has a mute son Carl (Rod Lauren) with a simmering Oedipal hatred, and a wife who should have left him eons ago. Whenever Conrad gets miffed with anyone coming a little too close to his private affairs he simply feeds the hapless victim to the animals. It seems inevitable that if the animals do not get him, then the human species will. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi
- Directed By
- Robert Gordon
- Genres
- Drama, Horror
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- May 15, 1963 Wide
- Studio
- Warner Home Video
Critic Reviews
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John Beifuss, Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
Plays like a reactionary response to PETA and to laws that protect endangered species at the expense of development, and so probably seems more relevant today than it did in 1963.
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Cast
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Michael Gough
as Michael Conrad
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Jeanne Cooper
as Edna Conrad
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Rod Lauren
as Carl
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Virginia Grey
as Jenny
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Jerome Cowan
as Jeffrey Stengle
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Elisha Cook Jr.
as Joe
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Warrene Ott
as Mary Hogan
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Marianna Hill
as Audrey
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Eilene Janssen
as Bride
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Eric Stone
as Groom
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Dani Lynn
as Art Student
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Edward Platt
as Detective Rivers
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Douglas Henderson
as Lt. Duggan
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Jerry Douglas
as Lab Technician
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Claudia Brack
as Carl's Mother
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Byron Morrow
as Officer Donovan
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Oren Curtis
as Radu
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Susan Slavin
as Art Student
