From Beyond the Grave DVD: Review By JIm Mourgos

In the 1970s Amicus Pictures put together the last of their English horror anthology films with Peter Cushing playing the narrator of sorts. He runs a shop of strange objects that people wander into and buy.

Except the boys that wander into this shop cheat Peter's character and pay the price!

The film breaks down into four parts and each part has its moments. My favorite was the door that a writer buys and uses this fancy door to cover over his supplies closet! Duh! However when he opens it late at night, a room to another universe opens. It's some creepy guy who dresses so 17th century and wants our hero and his girl to spend eternity.

If the room is supposed to trap people, why was our hero so easily able to run out whenever he wanted to? And what was with wrestling with this 300 year old guy and not being able to give him a good old-fashioned punch?

Another fav is the family man who cheats on his wife but gets the tables turned on him by a strange couple. Donald Pleasance (Fantastic Voyage, Outer Limits) stars.

I won't review each tale. But I will say that despite the horrible effects, the stories ran pretty quickly and the film does capture your interest.

The episodes in order are:

The Gatecrasher -

An Act of Kindness

The Elemental

The Door -

Recommended for Tales of the Crypt fans!