The Breaking Down the Door With An Axe Scene Was Done in an Earlier Film
One very interesting moment in the Vincent Price/Peter Lorre/Basil Rathbone film The Comedy of Terrors is a scene of two people hiding in a room while a third person breaks down the door with an axe. The only horror film with which I was familiar where this happens was The Shining. Of course this is a horror comedy film but I was surprised to see that the same thing was done years earlier. That scene is either not in the book of The Shining or is done differently as there is no axe in the book. The movie scene is one of the most famous in cinema.
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