This Amicus anthology features Peter Cushing on a train with five other passengers including Christopher Lee and a young Donald Sutherland. He ends up telling them all their futures using a deck of tarot cards. Spoiler alert: none of them has a very bright future since this is a horror film with "horror" right there in the title. The 5 tales include a werewolf one, a vampire one, a killer plant one( which is sort-of a short version of DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS, which had come out 2 years prior), a voodoo curse one featuring a jazz band and lots of music and what's probably my fav, a killer disembodied hand(yes just like Thing from THE ADDAMS FAMILY) that stalks snobby art critic Christopher Lee. Pretty simple yarns but they're all effective enough and the acting is top-notch throughout. AKA THE BLOOD SEEKERS and THE HOUSE OF HORRORS
This is a really chilling film, especially to my younger self. The creeping vine story is the one I was most frightened by, but all of them are well told. Acting was superb, and I have to ask: Is this Amicus' best film?
ReplyDeleteOut of all the Amicus films I've seen it's definitely up there. Either TALES FROM THE CRYPT or VAULT OF HORROR might get my vote for best though.
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