Directed by Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Chrichton, Basil Dearden and Robert Hamer. Written by John Baines, E.F. Benson, Angus MacPhail and H.G. Wells. Starring Michael Redgrave, Melvyn Johns, Fredrick Valk, Roland Culver and Sally Ann Howes.
Plot: the guests at a country home take turns telling supernatural stories.
The first story is The Hearse Driver based on “The Bus Conductor” by E.F. Benson. It’s a classic and it was classically creepy in this as well. The second story, The Christmas Party, was about a girl who meets a ghost she doesn’t realize is a ghost. The third story, The Haunting Mirror, was pretty good. And man was that wife a beast when she just started ripping apart that mirror, splinters and cuts be damned. The fourth story, The Golfer’s Story, was more funny than scary and didn’t seem to fit in. The fifth story, The Ventriloquist’s Dummy, we took as a very severe psychosis and a very fucked up story.
Then there was the linking narrative. And can we say “What the fuck?!” This had to have been one of the first mind fuck horror movies. And we seldom enjoy those, this time being no different. It was original, The acting was dead on, but it was a little boring sometimes and there was no actual death. But we can’t recommend everything, can we?
I suppose I could list my favorite movies here, but instead I'll give you a strange glimpse into what makes me TaraRomero.
1. I love comic books. I'm particularly into anything X-Men related and everything Harley Quinn.
2. My celebrity crush is Chris Evans (AKA Captain America). He's even more political than I am and he's not afraid to show it, plus he's really, really hot.
3. I love baseball and more importantly the Boston Red Sox, even though I've never even been to Boston. LOL
4. If I won the lottery tomorrow, after paying off my debts, I'd buy a smallish house somewhere in Southern California. I have got to get out of Texas.
5. My cartoon hero is Tina Belcher. Her and I share a soul.
6. I've been rescuing dogs since I was a teenager and firmly believe that fur babies belong inside and on the furniture.
7. I'm very much addicted to Hallmark Channel. I love their sappy movies, especially the Christmas ones.
8. I have 2 tattoos. An "E" on my ankle for my first lost fur baby. And a ladybug on my wrist named George after George Romero told me he liked it. May he RIP.
9. I'm a bit of a night owl. Not that I go out a lot, it's just that I prefer to be up at night and asleep during the day. I'm a vampire like that.
10. I have an unhealthy relationship with potato chips. My favorite are Herr's Sour Cream & Onion.
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