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Cyn Armistead (14 KP) rated Crimes by Moonlight: Mysteries from the Dark Side in Books

Mar 1, 2018

I should have written the review as soon as I finished the book. All I remember now is that this anthology tended to be much, much darker than most of the ones I read! I'd classify this volume as horror rather than dark fantasy, and paranormal romance fans should probably just skip it altogether even if they do see familiar authors' names. I should have skipped it, and I wasn't reading for any romance. I'm still shivering!

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Kevin Phillipson (9958 KP) rated The Mortuary Collection (2019) in Movies

Aug 10, 2021

Clancy brown (1 more)

Catitlin custer

Watched on shudder rather entertaining anthology with enough twists and turns especially the forth tale which had a twist even I didn't see coming. Anyway clancy brown gives a creepy performance as the mortician and boy does he look creepy also stand out is catitlin custer as his guest who's come for job but has a tale of her own to tell. Overall rather good horror movie definitely one to watch again

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Awix (3310 KP) rated Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1965) in Movies

Feb 24, 2018

Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1965)

1965 | Classics, Horror, Sci-Fi

7.8

(4 Ratings)

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Genre-defining British anthology horror film. Five men have their fortunes told on a train; guess what, it doesn't look good for any of them. For instance: Christopher Lee is pursued by a severed hand, Roy Castle unwisely plagiarises voodoo music, Fluff Freeman has to contend with a malevolent vine. Frame story has (in theory) a twist ending; but it's the same one they use in nearly all of these films.

The quality of these anthology horror films is always a bit variable, because the different stories themselves inevitably are; this is a pretty good one because even when the stories are ridiculous and arguably incoherent, they are still told with a sense of humour and don't hang around too long. Extraordinary cast, obviously; the rubber hand chasing Christopher Lee would go on to appear in more films than Fluff Freeman, probably because it was a better actor. When this film is good, it's very good; even when it's not so good, it's still a lot of fun. Much imitated, not least by Amicus themselves, but seldom equalled.