Another great Amycus house film directed by specialist Freddy Francis. Terror is based on certainty that something bad is going to happen, and that you can't necessarily do anything to twist that fate. We see the classic invitation to a series of segments from an encounter in a train car, where an unrecognizable Peter Cushing demonstrates his skills with the tarot game. For those of us who know some tarot, it is almost impossible for only some arcanes to appear on each play and eventually death ends up appearing as a final card. Even some plays that appear are really good, it's worth commenting on this detail. There are classic segments (the werewolf and vampire segments have interesting twists), one influenced by Lovecraft (vegetable invasion) and the killer hand is a tribute to the old horror cinema of the 1930s. The performances are competent, staging too, and it is possible to convey nervousness and uncertainty, two things that today's cinema cannot guarantee. There are great faces (Cushing, Lee, Sutherland, Gough) who transcended the genre to become immortal. This film, 55 years after it was produced, is still recommended.
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