Dr. Terror's House of Horrors

Name: Dr. Terror's House of Horrors
Genre: Horror
Released: 1965-02-23
Duration: 98 min
Rating: 6.482

★ 6,5 /10 (195 Votes)

1965 EN 98 min

Overview

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.

Stream

Rent

Release date

23/02/1965

Votes

195

Popularity

2.6

Acclaimed as "THE FEAR OF THE YEAR."

Genres

Horror

Status

Released

Language

Runtime

98 min

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")

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Ursula Howells

Mrs. Deirdre Biddulph (segment 1 "Werewolf")

Katy Wild

Valda (segment 1 "Werewolf")

Edward Underdown

Tod (segment 1 "Werewolf")

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Ann Bell

Ann Rogers (segment "Creeping Vine")

Jeremy Kemp

Jerry Drake (segment 2 "Creeping Vine")

Phoebe Nicholls

Carol Rogers (segment 2 "Creeping Vine")

Kenny Lynch

Sammy Coin (segment 3 "Voodoo")

Harold Lang

Roy Shine (segment 3 "Voodoo")

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Christopher Carlos

Vrim (segment 3 "Voodoo")

Max Adrian

Dr. Blake (segment 5 "Vampire")

Jennifer Jayne

Nicolle (segment 5 "Vampire")

Michael Gough

Eric Landor (segment 4 "Disembodied Hand")

Isla Blair

Pretty Girl (segment 4 "Disembodied Hand")

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Frank Barry

Dambala (segment 3 "Voodoo")

Judy Cornwell

Nurse (segment 4 "Disembodied Hand")

Frank Forsyth

Toastmaster (segment 4 "Disembodied Hand")

Caron Gardner

Joo Joo Club Patron (segment 3 "Voodoo")

Kenneth Kove

Third Male Friend (segment 4 "Disembodied Hand")

Thomas Baptiste

Dambala (Segment 3 "Voodoo")

Al Mulock

Detective (segment 5 "Vampire")

Walter Sparrow

Second Ambulance Man (segment 4 "Disembodied Hand")

Hedger Wallace

Surgeon (segment 4 "Disembodied Hand")

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Brian Hankins

George (segment 4 "Disembodied Hand")

Faith Kent

Lady in Art Gallery (segment 4 "Disembodied Hand")

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Laurie Leigh

Nurse (segment 5 "Vampire")

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Irene Richmond

Mrs Ellis (segment 5 "Vampire")

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Valerie St. Clair

Cigarette Girl (segment 3 "Voodoo")

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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 next day in the play ground would be kids talking about it, well those kids (un)lucky enough to have parents who would let them watch it that is! I finally got to see it one night in the 70s when my p…

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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, gory - though, it has to be said not very scary, detail. The supporting cast deliver these well - especially Phoebe Nicholls and Bernard Lee; Roy Castle not so much. I can't help but think it would have…

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