Dr. Terror's House of Horrors
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Freddie Francis
Peter Cushing
Christopher Lee
Roy Castle
Donald Sutherland
Neil Mccallum
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Dr. Sandor Schreck, known as Dr. Terror, joins five men in a train compartment and proceeds to tell each man's future with tarot cards. Architect Jim Dawson, on his way to visit his birthplace, is told that the current owner of the house, a beautiful widow named Dierdre Biddulph, will turn into a werewolf and kill him. Bill Rogers learns that a creeping vine growing on his house will engulf and destroy his family. Dr. Terror warns jazz musician Biff Bailey that the voodoo god Dambala will haunt him for performing music used in secret voodoo rites in Haiti. Bob Carroll, an American physician, hears a macabre tale in which he is persuaded by his colleague Dr. Blake to kill his new bride, Nicolle, because she is a vampire; in reality Blake, too, is a vampire, given to eliminating his competitors in the medical profession, and Carroll hangs for murder because of Blake's treachery. Art critic Franklyn Marsh, who has been skeptical of Dr. Terror's predictions, is the last to hear his future, in which the dismembered hand of an artist whom Marsh drove to suicide follows him and causes a car accident that leaves Marsh blind. As the train comes to a stop, the mysterious Dr. Terror disappears, and the five men meet their respective fates.
Director
Freddie Francis
Cast
Peter Cushing
Christopher Lee
Roy Castle
Donald Sutherland
Neil Mccallum
Alan Freeman
Max Adrian
Edward Underdown
Ursula Howells
Peter Madden
Katy Wild
Ann Bell
Sarah Nicholls
Bernard Lee
Jeremy Kemp
Kenny Lynch
Harold Lang
Christopher Carlos
George Mossman
Thomas Baptiste
Jennifer Jayne
Michael Gough
Irene Richmond
Frank Barry
Isla Blair
Hedger Wallace
Judy Cornwell
Laurie Leigh
Al Mulock
Frank Forsyth
Tauros (a Dog)
James (a Chimpanzee)
Brian Hawkins
John Martin
Faith Kent
Kenneth Kove
Walter Sparrow
Valerie St. Clair
Russell Henderson Steel Band
Tubby Hayes Quintet
Crew
Buster Ambler
Roy Ashton
Bert Batt
Roy Castle
Thelma Connell
William Constable
John Cox
Russell Henderson Steel Band
Boscoe Holder
Alan Hume
Elisabeth Lutyens
Kenny Lynch
Philip Martell
Max J. Rosenberg
Ted Samuels
Bridget Sellers
Frieda Steiger
Milton Subotsky
Milton Subotsky
Tubby Hayes Quintet
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Schreck? That's a German word isn't it? Means fear or horror.- Dawson
A more exact translation would be terror. An unfortunate misnomer for I am the mildest of men.- Dr. Schreck
Trivia
Acker Bilk was hired to play Biff Bailey but had a heart attack and was replaced by Roy Castle.
Tubby Hayes was booked to write the score but did not write anything and so was replaced by 'Elizabeth Lutyens' .
Notes
Released in Great Britain in February 1965.
