Really Surprised!

This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.

Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

An Amicus Productions portmanteau film written by Milton Subotsky with five segments. Neil McCallum encounters a werewolf in the Hebrides, Roy Castle has trouble with voodoo music, Alan 'Fluff' Freeman finds a strange plant in his garden, Christopher Lee flees from a disembodied hand and Donald Sutherland discovers he is married to a vampire. Not particularly rich in terror or horror or that original but it moves along at a good pace and never bores. Cinematographer Alan Hume films well in widescreen and colour and Elisabeth Lutyens provides an apt music score.Peter Cushing in untidy goatee beard holds it all together as the eponymous Dr. Terror. It always amazed me that such a nice person in real life as Mr. Cushing was could suggest all kinds of fearful and unpleasant depths as he did. But then that is acting for you. The versatile British cast support admirably. Kenny Lynch, that under rated singer, pleasantly performs two self composed numbers.A good film for the late evenings with a glass of wine. Red of course.

yet another excellent British horror movie from the 1960's . I was pleasantly surprised with the special effects from such an old movie , each segment had it's own brand of humour and horror , perfectly combined . and if it wasn't for the fact they all died , that would have made for a fantastic train ride , with so much talent in one place . I recently watched this movie again , on horror channel , & in my opinion it has not lost any of it's charm , and is still very watchable today - a true testament to the actors , writer , and director . it is very skilfully filmed , written , and acted . a true must have for all collectors of horror classics .

The first of the many anthology horror films made by Amicus Studios in the UK (the main rival to their more successful counterparts Hammer), DR TERROR'S HOUSE OF HORRORS is a great, fast paced movie that holds up to this day. It's a pretty gentle film that favours atmosphere over shocks and terror, but that doesn't stop it from packing a punch in the tale of five train passengers having their fortunes read by the mysterious Dr Schreck. This is one of those films where the wraparound story is even better than the individual tales, mainly thanks to Peter Cushing who excels as the shabby, sinister fortune teller. The twist ending is no surprise but it was enough to send chills up my spine by the time the credits rolled.The stories are a mixed bunch but none are too poor. Ironically, the two average stories are those which plough the most familiar fields, the vampire and werewolf yarns which bookend the film. The werewolf section benefits from some good HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES-style atmosphere (think swirling mists, crumbling mansions, hidden vaults, lonely moors), an interesting werewolf and a good twist right at the end. The closing vampire story also has a twist, but by this time it's very predictable. Donald Sutherland doesn't register more than bug eyes and blond hair and the rubber bat stuff is quite tiring.The second story is of the so-bad-it's-good variety. It involves a household being taken over by a killer plant, and is just as silly as it sounds. Still, the straight-laced approach makes it work and nowhere else will you see Bernard Lee battling an evil vine! The bit where the guy is strangled by a branch is also pretty funny. The third story goes for out-and-out comedy as an unlucky Roy Castle falls foul of a voodoo cult – all because he's trying to steal their music! Castle mugs for all his worth in this outing and the voodoo elements are hilarious dated and non-PC, but for the most part the comedy works.The fourth story is the best and it's no coincidence that it stars Christopher Lee. He's not playing a villain here, but his art critic character is completely foul and watching him get his comeuppance is a joy. Michael Gough is also very good in a small part. This makes use of the classic crawling hand tale complete with a nice little special effect and it's quite brilliant, coming the closest out of all the stories to true horror. All in all a fine little film from Britain's golden age of horror.

The first horror movie i ever watched at the Drive-In on the big screen and to this day is the one movie that still makes me turn my head to look behind when i am alone and hear a noise, scary no, horrifying memories yes, the very night we returned home from the movie i went up stairs to my shared bedroom with my brothers, i was the first one to get in bed and was laying on my stomach not much later than maybe couple minutes later and felt a tap on my back shoulder, i turned to look and there was an old black winter glove, i scrambled out of bed and downstairs from the attic bedroom tripping down the stairs in sheer panic and horror, my brothers and everyone else was still down stairs and came rushing to find out what happened from the noise i made, it was a real haunting experience, we all went up stairs soon after and nobody could find that glove, many other things happened to other members of my family over time in this house we had only rented a short time before this period of things going on, we moved shortly there after, i don't know what this movie had to do with it if anything except for the glove and story in the movie about the guy who lost his hand, and everything i just wrote is 100% true, ask anyone in my family that was there.