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)
The framing story is set in a train car, where five passengers have their fortunes told by the all-seeing Dr. Schreck (Peter Cushing), who refers to his ominous tarot deck as his "House of Horrors." Their respective stories involve all manner of occult happenings: a jazz musician's involvement with a voodoo curse; an estate haunted by a werewolf; a doctor (Donald Sutherland) who suspects that his wife has become a vampire; a cottage besieged by a monster kudzu vine; and segment, in which arrogant art critic Christopher Lee is avidly pursued by a snubbed artist's severed hand. (official distributor synopsis)
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Dr. Terror's House of Horrors is a rather nice example of classic 1960s horror that still tries to capture the dark atmosphere of gothic horror, but it falls a bit short in various aspects, and it can be quite boring. The stories don't have the necessary drive and in the end, the atmosphere doesn't really hold up. Well, not always, which is the main problem. Some of the short stories would work great on their own.
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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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