Dr. Terror's House of Horrors
Dr. Terror's House of Horrors is a 1965 film from the UK, directed by Freddie Francis, running 98 minutes. reelscum files it under euro-gothic.
- Year
- 1965 · 1960s films
- Country
- UK
- Runtime
- 98 min
- Director
- Freddie Francis
- Updated
- 10 Aug 2026
- Obscurity
- known (28/100)
- Also known as
- The Blood Suckers · Doctor Terror's House of Horror · Dr. Terror's House of Horrors · Le train des épouvantes
Defined in the glossary: Euro-gothic
The film that invented the Amicus anthology, dealt out as tarot on a train.
The one that started the whole Amicus omnibus racket, and set the template every British anthology after it would follow. Five strangers share a train compartment with Peter Cushing's Dr Schreck (German for terror, in case the fog was too subtle), who deals each of them a tarot hand foretelling a nasty end: a werewolf, a creeping man-eating vine, a voodoo curse on a jazzman, a severed hand out for Christopher Lee, and a vampire. Some segments land and some are filler, which is the anthology bargain and always will be. Freddie Francis directs with more polish than the budget deserved, the cast is stacked (a young Donald Sutherland among them), and the whole thing moves. Slighter than the Amicus films that came after it, and the reason there were any.
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