Dr Terror's House of Horrors

Feb 23, 1965

1h 38m

★ 6.5

Acclaimed as "THE FEAR OF THE YEAR."

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.

Genres

Horror

Production Companies

Amicus Productions

Dr Terror's House of Horrors Trailers

Cast

Dr. Sandor Schreck aka "Dr. Terror"

Peter Cushing

Franklyn Marsh

Christopher Lee

Biff Bailey

Roy Castle

Bill Rogers

Alan Freeman

Bob Carroll

Donald Sutherland

Jim Dawson

Neil McCallum

Hopkins (segment 2 "Creeping Vine")

Bernard Lee

Caleb (segment 1 "Werewolf")

Peter Madden

Mrs. Deirdre Biddulph (segment 1 "Werewolf")

Ursula Howells

Valda (segment 1 "Werewolf")

Katy Wild

Tod (segment 1 "Werewolf")

Edward Underdown

Ann Rogers (segment "Creeping Vine")

Ann Bell

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