A review of the Warner DVD which costs £3 on amazon. Film company Amicus was Hammer's main rival in the 60s/70s British horror stakes. Their stock in trade was the anthology movie, in which a framing narrative would link four or five otherwise unrelated horror stories. While they're often stodgy and oddly low on horror, there are a couple of gems in among them, and any one of the films is likely to have at least one episode worth watching. The beauty of the format is that none of the stories stick around for long enough to get boring or annoying, and because they only required actors for a few days, they could generally afford to have quite good casts, ...  Read the complete review

From Beyond the Grave is a 1973 British compendium horror film from Amicus Productions directed by Kevin Connor from stories by R Chetwynd-Hayes. The film is much in the vein of other Amicus anthologies like Dr Terror's House of Horrors and Tales From the Crypt and features four spooky tales all linked by a framing device. The framing device here, always a fun component of these films, features the great Peter Cushing as the enigmatic old owner of Temptations Ltd, a dusty antiques shop - motto: Offers You Cannot Resist - in a small, foggy, anachronistic London backstreet. Cushing, with flat cap, pipe and Northern accent, promises a surprise with every purchase. This is ..  Read the complete review

As it was Hallowe'en last night, my fiancé and I decided to watch an old horror film. I own several on DVD which I haven't yet got round to seeing, so we chose From Beyond The Grave, which is an Amicus Production from 1973. It is rated a 15 and is 94 minutes long. My fiancé remembered watching this on television when he was about eight years old and said he had found it very scary at that age. Amicus specialise in horror anthologies and this is one of those. This was the seventh and final anthology from Amicus and features five little stories linked together by a common theme. From Beyond The Grave begins each tale at Temptations Ltd., a little dark shop of ...  Read the complete review

This is a pretty unnerving film to be fair. I'm sure everyone has heard of the Hammer Horrors of the 50's, 60's and 70's. But it's worth noting that Hammer Studios were not the only British studio at that time who were making horrors. It's just that Hammer horror became the sweeping generalization for all horrors out at the time. This one was actually made by a company called Amicus. In keeping with several Amicus film ideas, this film has one central protagonist that sets up several storylines within the film. In this film, there are five stories, all set up by a man in an antiques store. It stars Horror King Peter Cushing, along with David Warner, Donald Pleasence, Ian  Read the complete review