Movie
Dr. Terror's House of Horrors
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.
Details
- Release date
- 1965-02-23
- Runtime
- 98 min
- Genres
- Horror
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Amicus Productions
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Peter Cushing as Dr. Sandor Schreck aka "Dr. Terror"
- Christopher Lee as Franklyn Marsh
- Roy Castle as Biff Bailey
- Alan Freeman as Bill Rogers
- Donald Sutherland as Bob Carroll
- Neil McCallum as Jim Dawson
- Bernard Lee as Hopkins (segment 2 "Creeping Vine")
- Peter Madden as Caleb (segment 1 "Werewolf")
- Ursula Howells as Mrs. Deirdre Biddulph (segment 1 "Werewolf")
- Katy Wild as Valda (segment 1 "Werewolf")
- Edward Underdown as Tod (segment 1 "Werewolf")
- Ann Bell as Ann Rogers (segment "Creeping Vine")
Crew
- Freddie Francis - Director
- Milton Subotsky - Screenplay
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