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Nimrod: A Cavalry Black: From Foal to Retirement

Juliet Blaxland

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Meet Nimrod, a typical horse in the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment. He's big, black and brave,...

Matthew Krueger (10051 KP) rated Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1965) in Movies

Sep 1, 2020

Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1965)

1965 | Classics, Horror, Sci-Fi

7.8

(4 Ratings)

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Peter Cushing (2 more)

Christopher Lee

Donald Sutherland

House of Horrors

Dr. Terror's House of Horrors is a excellent british anthology film that stars two horror icons Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing. It also has Donald Sutherland in it, so thats a plus.

It was the first in a series of anthology films from Amicus and was followed by Torture Garden (1967), The House That Dripped Blood (1970), Asylum (1972), Tales from the Crypt (1972), The Vault of Horror (1973) and From Beyond the Grave (1974).

The movies was made with a budget of £105,000 and Donald Sutherland was paid £1,000 ($10,153.31 in 2018 dollars) for his performance.

The Plot: Five chilling stories are linked by the character of a strange fortune-telling doctor who predicts the bizarre deaths of five fellow passengers on a train using a pack of tarot cards.

Its a excellent anthology film.

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Awix (3310 KP) rated The Hand of Night (1968) in Movies

May 29, 2020 (Updated May 30, 2020)

So-so British horror movie, one of a number of genre films made in north Africa in the mid to late sixties. A troubled man (William Sylvester, presumably fairly fresh from 2001: A Space Odyssey) visiting Morocco finds himself torn between a vivacious young French girl and a sultry woman who may or may not be (hint: she is) an ancient vampire.

Admirably serious tone and the central metaphor is coherent, but the problem with a lot of these foreign-shot films is that all the money seems to have gone on plane tickets, and the photography is often primitive and flat (a bit like a travelogue from the Moroccan Tourist Board). The pace is also not all it could be. Some decent bits here and there but the drabness of the film and its lack of incident counts against it. A case of potential not being realised.