![]() ![]() On an outing in town they come across the wax museum again and Neville insists they go inside. ![]() Grayson’s old friend Neville Rogers (Joss Ackland) drops by and we find that they both held a candle for the mysterious woman in the photograph. ![]() Only Cushing’s nightmare sequence, which wasn’t planned in the original script, seems to hold together the creepy atmosphere from the first story. The figures really are very poor and quite a let down for a film with quality scripts and actors, and the model of Salome is quite laughable. Grayson, we find, is a solitary character still affected by the loss of a beautiful woman, and on visiting the local town (really Weybridge in Surrey) comes across Jacquelin’s Museum of Horror, a wax museum filled with very badly made wax figures. Peter Cushing plays the part of a retired stockbroker, Philip Grayson, renting the house to escape an unrequited love affair.ĭuffell purposefully bases the story in a different room, with different colour scheme, to avoid the monotony of just using one set in the house. The segment ends with a twist, which comes as a real surprise on first viewing. The atmospheric old house with its creepy macabre clichés (skull resting on the classic Dracula novel, huge candelabra, chiming clock, carved wooden statues) begins to play tricks on the author, and Hillyer starts to believe that his murderer is coming alive.ĭenholm Elliott plays his role wonderfully, with believable tension and a nervy quality that draws you into the story, and the filming is well thought out to maximise the terror felt by Hillyer. We are introduced to a young couple named Hillyer, played by Denholm Elliott (who doesn’t strike me as particularly young) and Joanna Dunham.Ĭharles Hillyer is a writer looking for somewhere to write his book, and he is impressed with the library in the house, the book ‘House of Death’ convincing him that the house is the perfect place to finish his book.Įlliott gets on with writing in a lovely cable knit cardi, and comes up with his character, Dominic (Tom Adams). The police constable explains that there is something he hasn’t mentioned about the house. We begin by meeting Detective Inspector Holloway (John Bennett) who has been sent by Scotland Yard to investigate missing film stars. The indoor scenes were shot in the studio, the gardens and lake were also in Shepperton’s grounds, and town shots were filmed in Weybridge, Surrey. The house itself is actually the small gate house in the grounds of Shepperton Studios, which was visually expanded using extra scenery and had its gothic decoration added. ![]()
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