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From Beyond The Grave

1974, Movie, PG, 98 mins

From Beyond The Grave: Review

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Yet another horror anthology from Amicus--their seventh--this one too is a haphazard affair that fails to satisfy. Based on four stories by Chetwynd-Hayes, the episodes are linked by Cushing as the proprietor of a creepy antique shop who gets revenge on cheating customers by condemning them to supernatural fates after they leave the store. In the first tale a man is possessed by the spirit of Jack the Ripper after purchasing an antique mirror. The second has a retired army officer, who is dominated by his wife, falling into an affair with the daughter of a mysterious peddler (played, respectively, by Angela Pleasence and her father, Donald) and using voodoo to dispose of his wife. In the third story a man and his wife are tormented by an "elemental," an invisible demon that sits on his shoulder. And the fourth story concerns a man who purchases an antique door and installs it in his house, only to find that it opens into the home of its original owner--a man who lived for the pursuit of evil and was given to performing human sacrifices. The directorial debut of Connor, who would go on to make the notable MOTEL HELL (1980), this film is predictably uneven, with episodes two and three a bit more successful than the first and last ones. leave a comment
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