Friday, January 13, 2012

13 - Dr. Terror's House of Horrors

    This silly name is actually an older Amicus production.  A horror anthology from 1965, it's very tame by modern standards.  No nudity, a minimum of blood.  A small amount of off-screen violence.

There are a few things that are noteworthy.  The cast includes Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Donald Sutherland, as well as Michael Gough, the guy who played Alfred in the Tim Burton Batman movies.  The stories vary in quality.  I lean toward the second story, the Creeping Vine, and the fourth story, Disembodied Hand.  The rest of them are pleasant enough, but not noteworthy.  It's nice to have an anthology movie that moves as fast as this one does.  With five stories, plus a framing device, the whole thing moves very quickly.

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