An anthology of four short horror stories dealing with a group of patrons (Michael Bryant, Beverly Adams, Jack Palance..) at a carnival sideshow has their possible futures exposed to them by a screwball barker (Burguess Meredith) who exclaims : I've promised you horror... and I intend to keep that promise¨, as he does more than this in this horrifying movie . Do You Dare See the 100 Horrors of Dr. Diablo? Enter his "Torture Garden" and the screen's most astounding journey into the unknown! See the amazing "hundred horrors" that are nothing ever seen before!.From the shock-author of "PSYCHO!".Where Nothing Grows But Fear!.Do You Dare See What Dr. Diabolo Sees?
Terrifying and eerie movie laced with plenty of thrills , shocks , chills and intense situations , dealing wiith some people visit Dr. Diabolo's fairground haunted-house attraction show to warn the group of evil in their future , resulting in fateful consequences . The segments in which some skeptical customers , one by one , stand before the Fate Atropos to be shown the greed and violence they're hiding behind their respectable façades ; they're the following ones : "Enoch" with Michael Bryant , Maurice Denham , Niall MacGinnis , "Terror Over Hollywood" with Beverly Adams , Robert Hutton , "Mr. Steinway" with John Standing , Barbara Ewing and "The Man Who Collected Poe" with Jack Palance , Peter Cushing . Here stands out Burgues Meredith as a sinister man who presides over an unusual sideshow where people can see what is in store if they allow the evil side of their personalities to take over . Well written by Robert Bloch (Psycho) and based on four of his short stories . But the tales are uneven , suffering from some weak incidents and of varying quality , packing nice as well as fleeble moments. Taking its cue from the popular portmanteau style of the classic "Dead of Night" made some years before , this "Torture Garden" produced by Amicus -from producers Milton Subotsky, Max J Rosenberg- belongs to big hit series of terror story compendiums , being the first : Dr. Terror . This horror film results to be acceptable and there's no doubting the real creepiness of the opening and closing sequences.
It contains an evocative and colorful cimematography by expert cameraman Norman Warwick . As well as frightening and suspenseful score from Don Banks and James Bernard . This ghastly and scary terror movie was professionally directed by Freddie Francis , though inferior than other flicks he made in similar style . He was a professional cameran who photographed a lot of important and succesful films . At the same time he was a craftsman director who made several horror fims , such as : Dark tower, The Doctor and the devil, The Ghoul, Craze, Legend of the werewolf, Tales that witness madness, The creeping flesh, Tales from the crypt, The vampire happening, Dracula has rising from the grave, They came from beyond space, Torture garden, The skull, Hysteria, The evil of Frankenstein, Day of the triffids , Nightmare, Brain, Paranoic, among others . Rating : 5.5/10.
Terrifying and eerie movie laced with plenty of thrills , shocks , chills and intense situations , dealing wiith some people visit Dr. Diabolo's fairground haunted-house attraction show to warn the group of evil in their future , resulting in fateful consequences . The segments in which some skeptical customers , one by one , stand before the Fate Atropos to be shown the greed and violence they're hiding behind their respectable façades ; they're the following ones : "Enoch" with Michael Bryant , Maurice Denham , Niall MacGinnis , "Terror Over Hollywood" with Beverly Adams , Robert Hutton , "Mr. Steinway" with John Standing , Barbara Ewing and "The Man Who Collected Poe" with Jack Palance , Peter Cushing . Here stands out Burgues Meredith as a sinister man who presides over an unusual sideshow where people can see what is in store if they allow the evil side of their personalities to take over . Well written by Robert Bloch (Psycho) and based on four of his short stories . But the tales are uneven , suffering from some weak incidents and of varying quality , packing nice as well as fleeble moments. Taking its cue from the popular portmanteau style of the classic "Dead of Night" made some years before , this "Torture Garden" produced by Amicus -from producers Milton Subotsky, Max J Rosenberg- belongs to big hit series of terror story compendiums , being the first : Dr. Terror . This horror film results to be acceptable and there's no doubting the real creepiness of the opening and closing sequences.
It contains an evocative and colorful cimematography by expert cameraman Norman Warwick . As well as frightening and suspenseful score from Don Banks and James Bernard . This ghastly and scary terror movie was professionally directed by Freddie Francis , though inferior than other flicks he made in similar style . He was a professional cameran who photographed a lot of important and succesful films . At the same time he was a craftsman director who made several horror fims , such as : Dark tower, The Doctor and the devil, The Ghoul, Craze, Legend of the werewolf, Tales that witness madness, The creeping flesh, Tales from the crypt, The vampire happening, Dracula has rising from the grave, They came from beyond space, Torture garden, The skull, Hysteria, The evil of Frankenstein, Day of the triffids , Nightmare, Brain, Paranoic, among others . Rating : 5.5/10.