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Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

A lot of fun.

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

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.

A nice Cushing/Lee movie from Amicus with a young Donald Sutherland, this film would inspire the 70s Tales From The Crypt movie, which is one of the classic horror anthology films and somewhat inspired the success of 90s TV series. Maybe another older movie used this framing device, but I'm sure that TFTC's producers were looking at this British hit when they put their film together."Dr. Terror" is slow and clunky but the stories are short enough and each feature a nice bygone horror antagonist thats more charming than scary. The film is very well directed, just not written too well. The Voodoo tale is very zippy and has a timely message about cultural appropriation. Its all innocent and inoffensive and watchable. Its even kitschy enough to watch with friends and laugh at.

Five strangers board a train in England, and share a compartment. Joining them is a weird "doctor" named Schreck (Peter Cushing), who is in the business of telling fortunes. With him is a deck of cards, and he encourages his travelling companions to participate.This was the first of the horror anthology films to be made by Amicus, the studio best known for being a rival to fellow horror icon Hammer during this period. It's not necessarily their best, for the stories aren't that great (the favourite for this viewer is still "Tales from the Crypt"), but it's still solidly entertaining for any horror fan. It's certainly a very nice looking production, which comes from being directed by renowned cinematographer Freddie Francis ("The Innocents"), and photographed by Alan Hume ("Return of the Jedi").Neil McCallum plays Jim Dawson in "Werewolf". Jim is hired to oversee some renovations for a family home that he'd been forced to sell, and he discovers a long hidden crypt belonging to a vengeance crazed former owner.Alan Freeman is Bill Rogers in "Creeping Vine", the tale of a vine that seems to have developed a true intelligence as well as a sense of malevolence. This tale is cool, as there aren't really enough killer plant horror stories in this viewers' humble opinion.In "Voodoo", Roy Castle plays Biff Bailey, leader of a jazz band hired for a gig in the West Indies. He becomes enamoured of the music used by local voodoo practitioners, but learns that trying to incorporate the music into his bands' own performances is a very bad idea."Disembodied Hand" is good fun. Sir Christopher Lee has the role of pompous art critic Franklyn Marsh, who's humiliated by a painter named Eric Landor (Michael Gough). He ultimately strikes back, in a violent way, but who will really get the last laugh?Finally, a very young Donald Sutherland is featured in "Vampire" as a doctor, Bob Carroll, who's just married the beautiful Nicolle (Jennifer Jayne). He must confront an unfortunate reality regarding Nicolle.Screenwriter Milton Subotsky visits the old horror movie theme of just desserts in two of these stories, and his script is enjoyable if sometimes a little weak and predictable. He was inspired, appropriately enough, by the legendary and well-regarded "Dead of Night".The actors are all superb. In addition to those fine thespians already mentioned, Max Adrian, Bernard Lee, Peter Madden, Jeremy Kemp, Ursula Howells, Katy Wild, Edward Underdown, Isla Blair, and Judy Cornwell turn up. It's a treat as it always is to see Lee and Cushing spar with each other, as Dr. Schreck does his shtick and the grumpy, dismissive Marsh automatically writes him off as a phony.This is well worth viewing for any completist and fan of the entire horror omnibus format.Seven out of 10.

This was the first of several compendium Horror Films from 'Amicus' a close rival to 'Hammer' and it was one of the most uneven. The things that worked against it were the weakness of some of the stories, like for instance, the devouring plant, and the miscasting of Roy Castle and Alan Freeman, who were out of their depth in a horror film (whoever came up with that idea, are we hard up for actors or something??). The severed hand story with Christopher Lee was possibly the best in a film that bordered more on being silly than frightening. A pity, but it must have been considered as not that bad, because thankfully, it let to other compendiums from this studio, like 'Tales from the Crypt' and 'Asylum', both of which were superior to this film. In short, this one is for completists only!