Gallery of Horror (1967)

One of my all time favorites.

Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

This queer quintet of intended black humor isn't funny in the way the creators apparently envisioned, but funny it is. And, if any of its five tales of the preternatural were a mere one-fourth as good as the intros by John Carradine indicate--well, the viewer could at least stop sighing long enough to allow a slight shiver of trepidation, if not a shudder of laughter. But the only impulse likely to replace the yearn to yawn is indeed the urge to cackle as the sorry scripting and stilted performances grow incredibly worse. The sets and sound quality are reminiscent of early soaps, and a couple of the reoccurring actors carry their early-sixties coifs into nineteenth-century roles. The dialogue at times isn't consistent with the direction, as when one character states that coffee is brewing while pouring it into a cup. (Maybe the director figured that the audience would notice nothing but the busty actress's increasing cleavage!) The accidental humor reaches a crescendo in a Frankensteinesque story in which Lon Chaney Jr. slips into near slapstick as the disjointed dialogue has his mad doctor character babbling like a senile sot. Satire and parody are utterly impossible to achieve when the script for a scene sounds as if it were formulated by two writers, independent of one another. But it does sometimes result in hilarity, as in this film.

I also saw this in the late 1960s and/or 1970s on Chiller Theater here in Pittsburgh (WIIC Channel 11 NBC affiliate). I only ever saw this on Chiller Theater - never anywhere else. The title it had when I saw it on Chiller Theater was "King Vampire". The title refers to one of the episodes. This film utterly amazed me in that it so completely had all the production values of a high school play! This thing makes Ed Wood look like a big-budget A-list director! I kept thinking that any minute Chilly Billy was going to break in and announce that the movie was a joke, a phony production slapped together by the Channel 11 guys. You have got to see this to believe it.

I found this movie interesting.particularly the tale of the witch's clock.I have always wondered if the idea of a clock being enchanted for this purpose was an idea of the writers or if it was taken from an existing magical practice. all of my delvings into writings on enchantment speak of love and other things.And those into necromancy speak mostly of mediums.I am an avid reader of the occult although i do not actually practice any rituals.I have rented many horror movies and find that references to actual demonology or witchcraft to be few.If anyone had any suggestions as to any sources (books or movies)that might be along the lines of my interest i would be happy to hear (recieve) them thank you

Look, I'll be brief. If you have ANY taste for the so-bad-they're-great classics (Plan 9, Robot Monster, Brain That Wouldn't Die), hunt down a copy of this, the most overlooked member of the club. Amazingly, this was put out in letterboxed form; but anyway you can find it, WATCH THIS MOVIE. It is fantastic