Dr. Terror's House of Horrors

1965 98 min ★ 6.5 Horror

Five train passengers are joined by a mysterious fortuneteller who offers to read Tarot. A quintet of stories unfold: an architect returns to his ancestral home to find a vengeful werewolf; a doctor suspects his new wife is a vampire; an intelligent vine takes over a house; a jazz musician plagiarises music from a voodoo ceremony; and a pompous art critic is pursued by a disembodied hand.

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Cast

Peter Cushing

Dr. Sandor Schreck aka "Dr. Terror"

Christopher Lee

Franklyn Marsh

Roy Castle

Biff Bailey

Alan Freeman

Bill Rogers

Donald Sutherland

Bob Carroll

Neil McCallum

Jim Dawson

Bernard Lee

Hopkins (segment 2 "Creeping Vine")

Peter Madden

Caleb (segment 1 "Werewolf")

Ursula Howells

Mrs. Deirdre Biddulph (segment 1 "Werewolf")

Katy Wild

Valda (segment 1 "Werewolf")

Details

Director

Freddie Francis

Screenplay

Milton Subotsky

Tagline

"Acclaimed as "THE FEAR OF THE YEAR.""

Status

Released

Original Language

EN

Production

Amicus Productions

Reviews

J

John Chard

September 25, 2014

★ 8/10

Five characters in search of a station. Five strangers on board a train and are joined by the mysterious Dr Shreck, he's a fortune teller and offers to read their Tarot cards. Five men, five stories, Werewolf, The Creeping Vine, Voodoo, Disembodied Hand & Vampire. Dr. Terror's House Of Horrors is one of those films that had a big impact on me as a child. When it was shown on British TV, the ...

C

CinemaSerf

September 5, 2024

★ 6/10

Peter Cushing is spookily menacing here as "Dr. Schreck" who joins a group of passengers on a late night train journey where he offers to read their tarot cards. Despite the sceptical objections of fellow traveller Christopher Lee ("Marsh") he proceeds to read to each fellow passenger a future full of, well, terror... The film acts out each scenario as depicted by the doctor's tales in graphic, go...