Dr Terror's House of Horrors on tonight

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Dr Terror's House of Horrors Sunday 07 June
1:35am - 3:10am BBC2

Vampires, werewolves, crawling hanRAB, voodoo curses and creeping vines - they're all present and enjoyably correct in the first, and best, fun fright anthology from the Amicus horror factory, Hammer's only real 1960s rival.

Peter Cushing is the tarot card reader telling five men on a train (including Christopher Lee, Donald Sutherland and Roy Castle) their grim fortunes. Veteran horror director Freddie Francis delivers a fair quota of entertaining shocks with his trademark visual flair, and it's always a joy to see DJ turned rather wooden actor Alan Freeman at the mercy of that peculiar writhing plant. :D
 
Might be worth recording if the BBC decide to show it in its correct ratio beyond the credits.

The dvd has end credits lifted from a sub standard source but it is in the correct ratio

Unfortunately the tried and tested setup of visitors in deaths waiting room was overused by Amicus so the later Asylum is my fave.

Even though they both also used the aforementioned wraparound I enjoy Tales From the Crypt and Vault of Horror a lot more.

Check out a R1 dvd for a superb version of TFTC.

Look out for the uncut VOH on Film 4
 
Just watched this. I thought the ending was a cop-out.

Peter Cushing tells their fortunes but then we find out they were all kiiled in a train crash instead. So what was the point of the tarot reading if none of those things were going to happen to them?

I preferred the other Amicus film that was on tv over christmas, which included Tom Baker as an artist. It had a similar ending but it made sense in that context.
 
The BBC's broadcast of Dr Terror was a waste.
Not even the credits were in the correct ratio.

The Tom Baker story appears in Vault of Horror.
If you watched it on Film4 then you were watching the recently restored version from the BFI.

For many years the tv broadcasts of the film were the heavily cut tv version and this was shown by Sky Movies and on both C4 and Film 4.

Even the current US dvd is the butchered version but its a beautiful print.
The disc is double billed with the Amicus classic Tales From the Crypt and the disc is worth buying for that film alone which is presented in a quality never seen before and it makes the BBC print look like VHS.

The Film 4 version of VOH is 4:3 and a bit ropey but its better than the only other source for the uncut version which is a deleted VIPCO dvd -the quality on that was bad too
 
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