Rent Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1965)
3.4 of 5 from 83 ratings
1h 33min
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- Synopsis:
- Dr. Terror (Peter Cushing) is a mysterious fortune teller who boards a train and offers to tell fellow passengers (Christopher Lee, Roy Castle, 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.
- Actors:
- Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Max Adrian, Ann Bell, Michael Gough, Jennifer Jayne, Neil McCallum, Bernard Lee, Roy Castle, Alan Freeman, Peter Madden, Kenny Lynch, Jeremy Kemp, Donald Sutherland, Harold Lang, Ursula Howells, Christopher Carlos, Katy Wild, Edward Underdown, Phoebe Nicholls
- Directors:
- Freddie Francis
- Producers:
- Max Rosenberg, Milton Subotsky
- Writers:
- Milton Subotsky
- Aka:
- House of Horrors
- Studio:
- Anchor Bay
- Genres:
- Classics, Horror
- Collections:
- People of the Pictures, Cinema Paradiso's 2022 Centenary Club, Cinema Paradiso's 2024 Centenary Club: Part 3, Remembering Donald Sutherland, Roger Corman's Poe Cycle, A Brief History of Film...
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 27/06/2016
- Run Time:
- 98 minutes
- Languages:
- English LPCM Stereo
- Subtitles:
- None
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 2.35:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- (0) All
- Bonus:
- 60 Minute Feature by Nucleus Films
- Original Theatrical Trailer
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Reviews (1) of Dr. Terror's House of Horrors
Stacked Deck - Dr. Terror's House of Horrors review by Steve
The first of seven horror anthologies by Amicus intended to break into a UK production market utterly dominated by Hammer. The five original stories by studio boss Milton Subotsky are not on the level of later script ideas by Robert Bloch, and are extremely derivative of the old favourites.
So there are vampire and werewolf tales, and even one about a disembodied hand! Most memorable is the newer concept of a house invaded by a sentient killer vine... This stars radio dj Alan Freeman! Then Roy Castle turns up as a nonchalant jazz trumpeter menaced by Caribbean voodoo.
There are also the horror stars of the period, with Christopher Lee pursued by the severed body part. The standout is Peter Cushing as the mysteriously accented Doctor Terror who relates the malign fate of his fellow passengers on a steam train to hell via his well thumbed deck of Tarot cards.
A decade later, this would be made for tv, but in 1965, the Technicolor and Techniscope format made it worth leaving the house. Oscar winning cinematographer Freddie Francis directs with gusto. But the big shocker is how much Michael Gough resembles future horror star Nigel Farage- aargh!
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