John Carradine narrates five horror tales, each with a comically predictable surprise ending. In the first, "The Witches Clock," the Farrells have purchased an old mansion in Salem Massachusetts and are warned by the town doctor of the history of witches in the community. The second story, "King of the Vampires," deals with a slight-figured killer called the King of the Vampires by Scotland Yard. The third, "Monster Raid," is about a man turned zombie when he ODs on his experimental drug. "Spark of Life" deals with a doctor Mendell obsessed with the experiments of a thrown-out professor named Erich von Frankenstein. "Count Alucard" is a variation on the Dracula story, with the Count acquiring the deed to Carfax Abbey from Harker as vampiresses and dead bodies start turning up.
Lon Chaney Jr.
Dr. Mendell
John Carradine
Narrator / Tristram Halbin
Rochelle Hudson
Helen Spalding
Roger Gentry
Bob Farrell / Mob Leader / Dr. Sevard / Jonathan Harker
Ron Doyle
Brenner / Dr. Charles Spalding / Dr. Cushing
Karen Joy
Julie Farrell / Medina, the Vampire
Vic McGee
Dr. Finchley / Desmond / Amos Duncan / The Burgermeister
Ron Brogan
Marsh
Margaret Moore
Mrs. O'Shea
Gray Daniels
The Coachman
Mitch Evans
Count Alucard
Joey Benson
Dr. Sedgewick
⭐ 4/10
Poor-mans Nightgallery Rod Serling didn't invent the anthology show or movie, far from it, but this movie is just a far inferior version of what he had put out on TV in the years prior in The Night Gallery (and of course the Twilight Zone before that). This is just a hodgepodge of poorly written episodes crammed together without regard, and it comes off just as bad as you might imagine.
