The original horror anthology is a surprisingly snappy gothic classic from Ealing Studios – complete with their stock brand of colorful characters and breezy dialogue. Some of the stories may seem overly familiar, but that’s because they’ve been recycled so many times since. The golf segment in particular – from a story by H.G. Wells – is a comic masterpiece, and the final story is one of the best treatments of the “living dummy” story ever put to film. Clearly an influence on ‘The Twilight Zone’ and countless other horror and suspense films and television.
