62: Shelly's Own String of Murders
Lions, Towers & Shields
English - October 20, 2022 23:25 - 56 minutes - 51.6 MBFilm Reviews TV & Film Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Britain’s Ealing Studios is best known for its comedies, including The Ladykillers, The Lavender Hill Mob, and Kind Hearts And Coronets. But this 1945 precursor to those famously funny films deals more with chills than chuckles. Four directors tag-team to adapt a mix of original and classic tales, including one based on a story by H.G. Wells. It’s the rare horror anthology whose framing story is as creepily compelling as its individual tales of terror, building to a memorably hair-raising climax that’ll stick with you through the closing credits and beyond. Come for the golf-induced suicide, stay for the ventriloquist’s dummy.