Starring Mervyn Johns, Michael Redgrave, Roland Culver, Mary Merrall, Googie Withers
Directed by Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, & Robert Hamer
(actor & director credits courtesy IMDB.com)
An architect hired to fix up a farmhouse is disturbed to find the house and the people in it are exactly as in his recurring nightmares, and each have their own horror story to tell.
Britain's Ealing Studios presents one of the earliest horror anthologies and it's a good one, with some fine chilling moments. It's most famous sequence is that of a ventriloquist played by Redgrave whose dummy seems to rebel against him, and Redgrave is excellent, but there's also quality horror mined from a man who sees a strange room in the mirror behind him, and a hospital patient who experiences a premonition of his death. Not all of the vignettes are as strong, but the framing story is as gripping as the best of them, as the architect tries to recall the horrific ending of his dream before it is too late.
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