Starring Vincent Price and Peter Cushing, it's pretty fun stuff. To make it even more fun, it's an Amicus production. They put together a series of horror anthology movies that I watched awhile back (Dr. Terror's House of Horrors?) They're like Hammer, but tighter paced, and less gothic.
The actual story is pretty good. Price's lead is a bit mean, but it makes sense, since he's had a pretty rough time, with his girlfriend being killed, and him being the prime suspect. What's more fascinating is the way that the movie pads things out in a way that doesn't get annoying, but usually would. There are clips inserted into the movie from earlier productions, all involving Vincent Price, that are framed as being his earlier movies. This makes sense. And they use these clips carefully. They cut between the clip and original material briskly, which doesn't give the audience the sense that they're just trying to fill time.
There's a peculiar supporting character that is very into spiders. Something about the tone of these scenes didn't feel right. It played into the plot nicely, but I guess it just seemed a little outlandish for the way the rest of the movie was playing out.
The one complaint I would have is that the ending seemed obvious to me. I knew who the killer was almost immediately - or at least sooner than I think I was supposed to.
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