Dr. Terror’s House of Horrors (1965)
Acclaimed as "THE FEAR OF THE YEAR."
Director: Freddie Francis · Writer: Milton Subotsky
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.
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Trailer
Director
Freddie Francis
Cast
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") 
Ursula Howells
Mrs. Deirdre Biddulph (segment 1 "Werewolf") 
Katy Wild
Valda (segment 1 "Werewolf") 
Edward Underdown
Tod (segment 1 "Werewolf")
Ann Bell
Ann Rogers (segment "Creeping Vine") User Reviews (2)
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 parents were out, I can even remember the time and channel it was shown on, in fact I can still remember now the feeling of dread that took over me as Christopher Lee is pursued by a severed hand, checking under my bed before turning the lights off. Now that's the beauty of horror films isn't it? …
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 been so much more effective in black and white, but it is still quite a fun watch with plenty to keep it interesting and it's nice to see Lee out of bandages!
