Directed by:
Freddie FrancisScreenplay:
Milton SubotskyCinematography:
Alan HumeComposer:
Elisabeth LutyensCast:
Christopher Lee, Ann Bell, Michael Gough, Bernard Lee, Peter Cushing, Donald Sutherland, Al Mulock, Walter Sparrow, Judy Cornwell, Katy Wild, Thomas Baptiste (more)Plots(1)
Dr. Terror (Peter Cushing) is a mysterious fortune teller who boards a train to tell fellow passengers (Christopher Lee, Roy Castle and Donald Sutherland) their fortune with tarot cards. Five possible futures unfold: an architect returns to his ancestral home to find a werewolf out for revenge; a huge flesh-eating vine takes over a house; a musician gets involved with voodoo; an art critic is pursued by a disembodied hand and a doctor discovers his new wife is a vampire. But they all end in the same result... Death! A fascinating and fast paced example of portmanteau filmmaking with a deadly twist in the tale. (Fabulous Films)
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The opening scene, in which Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Donald Sutherland and three other passengers successively enter the train compartment, exchanging glances and examining each other’s reactions to define their social commonality, is a treat. It is thus unfortunate that the future life events that Cushing begins to divine from his cards make for six rather ridiculous “horror” stories. Only one of them has any thought to it (Lee) and one has a surprising point (Sutherland). That, coincidentally, is the last one, which is followed by the overall point of the story. And taken together, these offer a nice conclusion.
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"Dr. Terror's House of Horrors" is a rather nice example of a classic horror film from the 1960s, a horror film that still tries to capture that dark atmosphere of gothic horror, but falls a bit short in various aspects, and let's be honest, it can be quite boring. The stories lack the necessary impact and in the end, even that atmosphere is not very well maintained. Well, not always, which is the main issue. Some stories would work great on their own.
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