Made always with style by former cinematographer Freddie Francis, e.g. in his interesting blocking and editing. Funnily enough, Alan Hum's photography is garishly high key and the sets look cheap.
Tarot card reading Peter Cushing boards a train and predicts the fate of the passengers, who are:
Neil McCallum. Oh, that was a werewolf story? I didn't realise. With Ursula Howells, Pater Madden and Katy Wild.
Alan Freeman encounters a deadly Creeping Vine in easily the most hilarious of the stories. Still has me smiling. Bernard Lee and Jeremy Kemp try vainly to keep straight faces.
Roy Castle makes the mistake of stealing a voodoo tune and must pay the price.
Christopher Lee - somehow at his most gay - plays an art critic who is pursued by a disembodied hand. Also quite hilarious.
And young Donald Sutherland makes the mistake of killing his wife, thinking she's a vampire.
Most entertaining collection of stories, made for Amicus. Written and produced by Milton Subotsky. Music by Elisabeth Lutyens (Don't Bother to Knock).
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