Dr Terror’s House of Horrors

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.

Production Details

An Amicus Production
Copyright MCMLXV
Produced at Shepperton Studios
98 Mins

Stills from film

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Hammer Connections


Crew	Name	Age at Release	Birth	Hidden	Death	Age	Hammer Productions
Assistant Director	Bert Batt	20	12 Mar 1944		6 Nov 2011	67	13
Camera Operator	Godfrey A. Godar	40	29 Nov 1924		1 Nov 2007	82	2
Composer: Jazz Music	Tubby Hayes	30	29 Jan 1935		7 Jun 1973	38	2
Conductor	Philip Martell	57	5 Oct 1907		11 Aug 1993	85	105
Continuity	Pauline Harlow	27	1 Jan 1938	01.01.1938		86	14
Director	Freddie Francis	47	21 Dec 1917		17 Mar 2007	89	6
Director Of Photography	Alan Hume	40	15 Oct 1924		13 Jul 2010	85	1
Director Of Sound	John Cox	56	6 May 1908		31 Aug 1972	64	1
Dubbing Editor	Roy Hyde	45	15 Feb 1920		28 Jun 1985	65	31
Hairdresser	Frieda Steiger	55	29 Dec 1903		19 Aug 1993	89	28
Make-Up Artist	Roy Ashton	55	15 Apr 1909		10 Jan 1995	85	40
Music	Elisabeth Lutyens	58	8 Jul 1906		14 Apr 1983	76	2
Sound Recordist	Buster Ambler	59	6 Jul 1905		1 Jan 1979	73	1

Cast	Name	Age at Release	Birth	Hidden	Death	Age	Hammer Productions
Ann Rogers	Ann Bell	26	28 Apr 1938	28.04.1938		86	2
Caleb	Peter Madden	60	8 Aug 1904		24 Feb 1976	71	6
Dr. Bob Carroll	Donald Sutherland	29	17 Jul 1935		20 Jun 2024	88	1
Dr. Terror	Peter Cushing	51	23 May 1913		11 Aug 1994	0	25
Eric Landor	Michael Gough	48	26 Nov 1916		17 Mar 2011	94	3
Franklyn Marsh	Christopher Lee	42	22 May 1922		7 Jun 2015	93	22
Hopkins	Bernard Lee	57	9 Jan 1908		16 Jan 1981	73	2
Jim Dawson	Neil McCallum	35	19 May 1929		26 Apr 1976	46	2
Mrs. Ellis	Irene Richmond	53	14 Nov 1911		24 May 2009	97	2
Nicolle Carroll	Jennifer Jayne	33	13 Nov 1931		23 Apr 2006	74	2
Nurse	Laurie Leigh	32	15 Sep 1932	15.09.1932		91	1
Pretty Girl	Isla Blair	20	24 Sep 1944	24.09.1944		79	2
Roy Shine	Harold Lang	42	31 Dec 1922		16 Nov 1970	79	9
Saxophone	Tubby Hayes	30	29 Jan 1935		7 Jun 1973	38	2
Third Male Friend	Kenneth Kove	72	29 Apr 1892		1 Dec 1984	92	2
Toastmaster	Frank Forsyth	59	9 Dec 1905		2 May 1984	78	5
Tod	Edward Underdown	56	2 Dec 1908		15 Dec 1989	81	1
Valda	Katy Wild	24	1 Oct 1940	01.10.1940		83	1

Original Poster

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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.