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From Beyond The Grave (1973) Country of Origin: UK CREDITS
PRODUCTION SCRIPT DIRECTION PHOTOGRAPHY EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION MUSIC SOUND COSTUMES AND MAKE-UP SPECIAL EFFECTS DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION MISCELLANEOUS LOCATIONS CAST PLOT SUMMARY The proprietor of the London antiques shop Temptations Ltd the macabre stories of four customers who try to cheat him or steal from him. In The Gatecrasher, a man who buys an antique mirror at a knockdown price and is soon possessed by a strange figure reflected in it; An Act of Kindness finds a man stealing a military medal in order to impress a match-seller. But when he meets the match-seller's strange daughter, he lives just long enough to regret both his crime and the mis-treatment of his young son; The Elemental is the supernatural creature that's pursuing a man who cons the antique shop owner into selling a snuff box at a lower price; and in The Door, a writer who buys an antique door finds that it opens into a 17th century room where an evil sorceror has achieved immortality through human sacrifice. At the climax, the antique dealer confronts an armed robber. CAPSULE REVIEW
Amicus' final anthology film is undoubtedly their best, with something of interest in each of the four stories. The cast is one of the best the studio ever assembled, the script is sharp and witty and the direction is spot-on throughout. Although the earlier anthology films (The House That Dripped Blood (1970), Tales From the Crypt (1972) and Vault of Horror (1973)) seem to get most of the attention, From Beyond the Grave remains the most consistently entertaining and most beautifully rendered off all of the studio's films. France UK USA Australia France Norway Sweden UK USA TIMELINE 1972 1973 1974 1976 1977 2005 POSTER TAGS Terror to delight worshippers of the macabre. ALTERNATIVE TITLES
La bottega che vendeva la morte - Italian
title MAGAZINES Shivers 36 pp.27-28 (UK) BOOKS Amicus: The Studio That Dripped Blood
pp.126-137 Hoffman's Guide to SF, Horror and Fantasy 1991
- 1992 p.146 Horror and Science Fiction Films II p.144 OTHER SOURCES screen KEYWORDS anthology, voodoo, antiques, demons, doors, mirrors, the occult, possession, shops, the supernatural
Last Updated: 15 October, 2008
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