Theatre Macabre — Season 1, Episode 8: The System of Dr Tarr and Professor Fether
Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery, Drama • 25 min • 1 season, 24 episodes • ★ 3.0/10
Episode synopsis
A narrator visits a French mental asylum where the 'soothing system' of patient-led care has been overthrown by a new, more severe method, only for the narrator to discover the 'doctors' are actually the patients, and the 'keepers' are those locked away, tarred and feathered.
About Theatre Macabre
Horror legend Christopher Lee hosts this anthology in the tradition of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, each half-hour episode adapting a story from a classic author, with tales by Edgar Allen Poe, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Ambrose Bierce, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Oscar Wilde.