A rather bland and cheaply made TV movie like supernatural thriller, this focuses on a young man's visit to a funeral home where the creepy mortician (Ivor Francis) insist that he stay and tells him the stories behind the corpses he has in cold storage. There's a grouchy single woman who hates kids, a psychopathic killer of young women, a visiting British criminologist involved in a pulp threat note predicting a murder, and the plight of a man who rejects a homeless person.
The 60's and 70's had dozens of these types of horror films with multiple stories told through a single narrator, and some were great yet others uninspired. This falls into the category of the latter, an attempt to rival the classic TV movie "Trilogy of Terror", yet sadly lacking that film's camp and the presence of a Karen Black like screamer. I can't believe that this was actually released to the movie theaters. It reeks of a late night TV premiere where the least picky of viewers stared at anything in their attempts to fall asleep.
As for the cast, there are a couple of familiar faces, but they're mostly actors Home people do not know the names of. For me, it was Francis and Bernard Fox of "Bewitched", as well as a few soap actors (Linda Gibboney and Elizabeth MacRae), but this is something that "Tales of the Dark Side" would have rejected, and "Creepshow" would have buried in the sand. Fortunately, it doesn't run past a TV movie of the week length, so it's easy to watch it, critique it and toss it.
The 60's and 70's had dozens of these types of horror films with multiple stories told through a single narrator, and some were great yet others uninspired. This falls into the category of the latter, an attempt to rival the classic TV movie "Trilogy of Terror", yet sadly lacking that film's camp and the presence of a Karen Black like screamer. I can't believe that this was actually released to the movie theaters. It reeks of a late night TV premiere where the least picky of viewers stared at anything in their attempts to fall asleep.
As for the cast, there are a couple of familiar faces, but they're mostly actors Home people do not know the names of. For me, it was Francis and Bernard Fox of "Bewitched", as well as a few soap actors (Linda Gibboney and Elizabeth MacRae), but this is something that "Tales of the Dark Side" would have rejected, and "Creepshow" would have buried in the sand. Fortunately, it doesn't run past a TV movie of the week length, so it's easy to watch it, critique it and toss it.