Too much of everything

That was an excellent one.

Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

This is a Freddie Francis film. It is remindful of some of the anthology series from the sixties that were seen on television. There are five supernatural tales concerning five men, riding in a train compartment. Along with them is a weird man with a pack of Tarot cards. He explains that these cards will tell the future of any man who wishes to take a chance. Of course, each is going to "tap the deck three times." The stories are disparate, and, sadly, have no connection to each other. The first involves a man who does house renovation who finds a stone casket in the basement of a house where he grew up. The second is about a plant that grows outside a house and begins to feast on living tissue. The third involves a musician who steals the music from a group of voodoo worshippers in the East Indies and finds you shouldn't mess with this. The fourth, played by Peter Cushing, tells of a severe art critic who tries to destroy the careers of artists, one in particular, who humiliated him. It's the old dismembered hand bit. And, finally, a man played by a very young Donald Sutherland, marries a beautiful French woman and gets more than he bargained for. They are held together by a contrived denouement. Still, the stories were fun and engaging.

Five men enter a train carriage in London bound for Bradley, and are joined by a sixth, the mysterious Doctor Schreck whose name, he mentions, is German for "terror". During the journey, the doctor opens his pack of Tarot cards, which he calls his "House of Horrors", and proceeds to reveal the destinies of each of the travellers........Anthology films are always a mixed bag of nuts, but it doesn't matter if there is a poor segment of the anthology (there usually is), the fundamental part of the film, in order for it to work, is the wrap around story.Surprisingly, the wrap around story, involving the six in a train carriage, is the most sinister and haunting part of the film, and this is because of the wonderfully restrained performance from the titular doctor himself, Peter Cushing.Any other horror film made around this time would have the main 'villain' mugging and playing up to the camera, but the thing that makes Cushing's portrayal so eerie, is that he appears to be just as normal as the other five passengers.The stories, as I've already said, are something of a mixed bag, we have one about a werewolf and an old house with a curse, a wonderfully over the top story about Roy Castle stealing some Voodoo song, a woeful story about a killer plant, and another featuring Donald Sutherland who is tricked into killing his wife, whom is a vampire.But the stand out has to be the Christopher Lee story, about a dismembered hand following him, looking for revenge. It sounds silly, but the punchline is pretty grim, considering its a PG rated film.All the stories have something whimsical about them, one breaks the fourth wall, one features Kenny Lynch, and they all have that 'it was so much safer back then' feel to it.It's not for everybody, but for fans of Amicus and Hammer, this will really fit the bill.

Wonderful horror anthology movie from Amicus. During a train voyage, five men have their fates told to them by creepy tarot card-reading Dr. Shreck (Peter Cushing). He calls his tarot deck his "house of horrors." Cushing has a lot of fun as the devilish Shreck and it shows.The first story, "Werewolf," is about an architect (Neil McCallum) hired to make alterations to the house he grew up in. The new owner is a widow with some secrets to keep. The title's pretty much a dead giveaway as to what one of those secrets is. This is probably my favorite of the stories. But if you're a monster fan, don't expect to see anybody running around in werewolf makeup or a costume. The second story, "Creeping Vine," is about plants that have become intelligent and bloodthirsty. It's a cute little story but nothing exceptional. "Voodoo" is the third story. It's about a jazz musician (Roy Castle) who uses music from a voodoo ceremony in a song he composes after being warned not to. This one's okay but, like the vine story, no great shakes.The fourth story is "Disembodied Hand," about an art critic (Christopher Lee) attacked by the disembodied hand of a painter (Michael Gough) he wronged. If you've seen The Beast with Five Fingers, you've seen the killer hand story done as well as it could be done. This version is good, however, thanks mainly to great actors Lee and Gough. The final story, "Vampire," is about a newly-married doctor (Donald Sutherland) who thinks his wife might be a vampire. This is a good story that ends with a cool little twist. The wraparound story of the train ride with Cushing features a twist that would become commonplace in horror anthologies, in one variation or another. But this is the first instance of a film using it that I'm aware of.Excellent cast well-directed by Freddie Francis. The stories aren't particularly innovative but are still very entertaining. It reminds me of an old book I read at the library as a child. It was a collection of horror-themed short stories. The stories were pretty simple and straightforward, predictable even, but also a great deal of fun. Definitely check it out if you're a fan of Cushing, Lee, or just horror anthologies in general.

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.