Amicus Films

Dr Terror’s House of Horrors – 1965

An Amicus Production
Copyright MCMLXV
Produced at Shepperton Studios
98 Mins

Storyline

Five strangers board a train and are joined by a mysterious fortune teller who offers to read their Tarot cards. Five separate stories unfold: An architect returns to his ancestral home to find a werewolf out for revenge; a doctor suspects his new wife is a vampire; an intelligent vine takes over a house; a jazz musician plagiarizes music from a voodoo ceremony; a pompous art critic is pursued by a disembodied hand.

Hammer Connections – 31


Role	Credited	Age at Release	Birth		Death	Age	Amicus Credits	Hammer Credits
CREW- 13
Assistant Director	Bert Batt	34	25 Apr 1930		6 Nov 2011	81	1	2
Camera Operator	Godfrey A. Godar	40	30 Nov 1924		2 Nov 2007	82	1	2
Composer: Jazz Music	Tubby Hayes	30	30 Jan 1935		8 Jun 1973	38	1	2
Conductor	Philip Martell	57	6 Oct 1907		11 Aug 1993	85	9	103
Continuity	Pauline Harlow	27	1 Jan 1938	1.01.1938		85	1	11
Director	Freddie Francis	47	22 Dec 1917		17 Mar 2007	89	8	6
Director of Photography	Alan Hume	40	16 Oct 1924		13 Jul 2010	85	6	1
Director of Sound	John Cox	56	7 May 1908		1 Sep 1972	64	5	1
Dubbing Editor	Roy Hyde	45	15 Feb 1920		28 Jun 1985	65	2	30
Hairdresser	Frieda Steiger						1	28
Make-Up Artist	Roy Ashton	55	16 Apr 1909		10 Jan 1995	85	4	36
Music	Elisabeth Lutyens	58	9 Jul 1906		14 Apr 1983	76	4	1
Sound Recordist	Buster Ambler	59	7 Jul 1905		1 Jan 1979	73	5	1
CAST - 18
Ann Rogers	Ann Bell	15	1 Jan 1950	01.01.1950		73	1	2
Caleb	Peter Madden	60	9 Aug 1904		24 Feb 1976	71	1	6
Dr. Bob Carroll	Donald Sutherland	29	17 Jul 1935	17.07.1935		87	1	1
Dr. Terror	Peter Cushing	51	26 May 1913		11 Aug 1994	81	15	24
Eric Landor	Michael Gough	48	23 Nov 1916		17 Mar 2011	94	3	3
Franklyn Marsh	Christopher Lee	42	27 May 1922		7 Jun 2015	93	5	22
Hopkins	Bernard Lee	37	23 Feb 1928		25 Dec 2014	86	1	2
Jim Dawson	Neil McCallum	35	20 May 1929		26 Apr 1976	46	1	2
Mrs. Ellis	Irene Richmond	53	15 Nov 1911		24 May 2009	97	1	2
Nicolle Carroll	Jennifer Jayne	33	14 Nov 1931		23 Apr 2006	74	2	2
Nurse	Laurie Leigh	32	16 Sep 1932	16.09.1932		90	1	1
Pretty Girl	Isla Blair	20	29 Sep 1944	29.09.1944		78	1	2
Roy Shine	Harold Lang	42	1 Jan 1923		16 Nov 1970	47	2	8
Saxophone	Tubby Hayes	30	30 Jan 1935		8 Jun 1973	38	1	2
Third Male Friend	Kenneth Kove	72	30 Apr 1892		1 Dec 1984	92	1	2
Toastmaster	Frank Forsyth	59	19 Dec 1905		2 May 1984	78	10	3
Tod	Edward Underdown	56	3 Dec 1908		15 Dec 1989	81	1	1
Valda	Katy Wild	24	23 Apr 1940	23.04.1940		83	3	1

Footnotes

The first of the “anthology” horror movies to be made by Amicus. Co-Producer Milton Subotsky is quoted as saying he was inspired to write a multi-story horror movie by his admiration for “Dead of Night (1945),” which used a similar format.

Actor Donald Sutherland also appeared in Hammer’s 1965 thriller “Fanatic”.

Original Film Poster
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Details were complied viewing the actual film.
Source of viewing copy – The Hammer Graveyard Collection