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		List Price: $9.99		Label: American General Pictures Salesrank: 87569 Released: January 17, 2006
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Editorial Review:
GALLERY OF HORRORS (DVD MOVIE)

Gallery of Horrors Reviews:
It Stinks - but I love it
2009-07-28 - I first saw GALLERY many years ago on WPIX - Channel 11 Chiller Theater, and it stuck with me. It's brash, colorful, mostly well paced, and very amateurishly acted and directed.

John Carradine (somebody fix his bow tie, please?) introduces 5 comic book type stories all delivered on a junior high school level. Lots of "location" footage lifted from Corman's THE TERROR (who likely swiped it from somewhere else too) - endless horse-drawn carriage scenes with lurid voice overs.

Add a sad-sack Lon Chaney Jr. and you've got yourself a must for bad movie buffs: cheesy but rarely boring, and if you're my age, you'll feel like you're 10 years old again.


A LONG LOST TREASURE FROM MY CHILDHOOD!
2009-04-23 - This film has been in the back of my mind for 40 years. Not knowing the title, I searched for what I could remember of the 5 tales of terror! John Carradine introduces the 5 short tales that will remind you of your favorite horror comics from the early 60's. Each tale runs only around 15 minutes and that includes Carradine's introduction!

I know my rating is very high for such a low rent production, but that is exactly why I rated it so high. To me considering the budget of these short stories, the sets look decent and there is some campy, but creepy atmosphere. Lon Chaney Jr. stars in one of the tales, but this is long past Chaney's prime and at this point he was doing whatever the studio's threw at him. It's a shame for these two old timers and Bela Lugosi, because they gave us 50's and 60's monster kids so much joy, that they deserved better!..especially when it came to getting paid!

This is a perfect film to start your Halloween movie marathon with. It will get you in the mood and you'll have a few laughs too! The DVD looks pretty good,but there is plenty of age showing and speckling throughout on this print. It does look like someone cared enough to clean it up a bit. It's also in widescreen, but there are no extras on this DVD.

Good customer service
2007-05-10 - Movie was suppose to be a DVD, but came as a VHS. I got it and that is all that matters.

CHEAP COMICS COME TO "LIFE"!!!
2007-04-15 - I've never seen another movie that so successfully conveys the feeling and the utter mediocrity of the "horror" comics that came after the "wise" government banned the pre-code HORROR comics! YES, this is a BAD MOVIE! But as mentioned by other, in-the-know reviewers, it is FUN!!! Probably about 21 of it's 88 minutes includes footage from Roger Corman films of the same time-period, including the "SUPER" backdrop behind the narrating John Carradine(who delivers INCREDIBLY convoluted and senseless Ed Wood-type lines with smooth, charming gusto and a STRAIGHT FACE, to his credit as a great actor!) Note how some of the rambling introductions have nothing to do with the ensuing story! Then LAUGH! That's what this movie is for. Don't feel sorry for Lon Chaney Jr.; he knew what he was doing, and he put in an earnest performance in which you really can detect his mastery of the craft(that may sound facetious, but I'm serious about him and Carradine doing real smooooth jobs), and yes, it becomes apparent that the other "actors"(who don't quite come up to the standards of the veterans.....or the standards of vin diesel, for that matter) re-appear throughout the 5 stories; but to be honest, on first viewing I didn't notice they were mostly the same people. Yes, they ARE either that "talented".....or that generic! The creep in "Monster Raid" is actually pretty cool looking, other than that there are no real visual thrills(though the ULTRA-cheesy looking Count "Alucard" is thrilling...to your funny bone; along with an appearance that one other "reviewer" already spoiled of another monster), and yes, there are quite a few comic-panel style cuts away from onscreen violence, but instead of being a gyp(how violent could a movie of this era/style have been, anyway?) it only adds to the comic book charm of it. If you like the "anthology" type of film and especially if you like cheap, crummy(yet enjoyable) comic books, THEN YOU WILL REALLY LOVE THIS MOVIE!!!! If you don't, then don't bother, because YOU ain't in our Secret Club!

So shocking it will sliver your liver!
2006-02-15 - While watching Gallery of Horrors (1967) aka Dr. Terror's Gallery of Horrors, it brought back memories of the harmless, post-code horror comics I used to read as a kid, specifically titles like "Tales of the Unexpected" and "Secrets of Haunted House", with good reason as most of the stories presented here were based of those by originally written by Russ Jones, author and graphic artist, who worked on such titles as Creepy and EERIE, both released by Warren Publishing. Produced and directed by David L. Hewitt (The Wizard of Mars, Journey to the Center of Time, The Mighty Gorga), the film features the legendary talents of Lon Chaney Jr. (Of Mice and Men, The Wolf Man) and John Carradine (Captains Courageous, The Grapes of Wrath) in roles probably best forgotten in retrospect. Also appearing is Roger Gentry (The Wizard of Mars), Ron Doyle ("Death Valley Days"), Vic McGee (Monsters Crash the Pajama Party), Mitch Evans, who played the gorilla in the classically rotten Jerry Warren feature Teenage Zombies (1959), and Rochelle Hudson, who was the voice of Honey from the Bosko cartoons throughout the 1930s.

After three, arduous, drawn out minutes of opening credits, John Carradine appears in a rented tuxedo, flanked by a still picture of a creepy looking manor, and he provides the set up for our first tale (of five) titled The Witches Clock, a story about a young couple taking up residence in an extremely large and spooky manor (one where the exterior looks exactly like that of the house in the opening sequence of the old Scooby Doo cartoon), once inhabited by a witch, who was killed by her neighbors back in the day when it was fashionable to do such things. In the dungeon (I bet that was a featured selling point), they find an old clock that turns out to be enchanted, and bad things ensue, resulting in a rather abrupt ending. The next tale is title King Vampire, and is set in London in the 1890's, and features a stymied Scotland Yard detective trying to discern the cause of some gruesome deaths about town, ones which involve puncture wounds to the victims' necks, and a severe loss of blood. The third story, titled Monster Raid, includes a scientist whose developed some formula with the intent on unlocking the secrets of the undead returning from the dead to take vengeance on his unfaithful wife and a scheming colleague, both of whom conspired against him in order to steal his secrets, ultimately causing his death. The fourth bit is titled The Spark of Life, and features Lon Chaney Jr. as a science professor and once colleague of Erie Von Frankenstein, who shares his vision with two of his students regarding the re-animating of a cadaver through the use of electricity (gee, I wonder where he got that idea from). Anyway, the students, as a lark, decide to put the Professor's theories to the test by juicing up a handy corpse, and soon the Professor becomes involved. The experiment's a success, sort of, until they learn whom they've actually brought back from the dead. The fifth and final tale is titled Count Dracula, and is a seriously abridged version of Bram Stoker's original story, featuring goofy looking `peasants' in off the rack lederhosen and actor who looks like a sleazy used car salesman playing the Count.

Given the time this film came out, it seems obvious it was created only to try and cash in on the horror anthology genre popularized through the various releases from both Hammer Studios and Amicus (The Studio that Dripped Blood), both of whom knew their stuff a whole lot better than of those who made this movie. The stories here are tepid and tame, comparatively speaking, but do offer some mild fun if you're not expecting a whole lot. The material is pretty flimsy, and the characters like cardboard, but given the limited amount of time dedicated to each tale (the film only runs just over 80 minutes), this didn't surprise me. The real pain here comes from the rotten scripting, and the lousy acting. The dialog is ridiculous, especially so during the King Vampire segment, which was set in 19th century London, as the writer tries feebly to emulate lower class Englishman colloquialisms and mannerisms of speech. This combined with some truly awful cockney accents made for difficult watching. In terms of the acting, seems most of the performers came from television, as when they weren't stepping on their lines, they were looking for them either off screen or on some papers their character just happened to be holding at the time. As far as Carradine and Chaney, neither one had much of a part, but Chaney was looking especially tired and worn out (it's known Chaney Jr. had a real problem with the booze later in his career...yeah, he couldn't get enough of it!), compared to Carradine who looked pretty lively for a man his age. I will say this for Chaney, he did seem to put some effort into his role, despite his probably nursing a hangover throughout and the shoddy nature of the material. As far as the stories themselves, they were all pretty tame (as I mentioned earlier), the weakest, in my opinion, being Monster Raid, if only because it featured no twist at the end, something present in the other four. I'm not saying the twist endings in the others made them great, as they were all predictable as hell, but at least it was something. The Monster Raid bit was tedious, as much of it was told in flashbacks sewn together by 63 scenes of a horse drawn carriage speeding down country roads, supposedly carrying the undead scientist home to seek his revenge, his ghoulish voice played over the footage as if we, the audience, could hear his fiendish thoughts. If I had to pick a favorite, I'd suppose I'd go with Chaney's bit titled The Spark of Life, if only because of Chaney and some unintentional humor throughout. The funniest parts for me here were how he, supposedly once a colleague of Dr. Frankenstein, seemed to believe himself a genius for coming up with electrifying the dead in hopes of inducing life. In terms of the directing, there's really not much to say as all the tales feature a couple of very modest (i.e. cheap) settings, and the camera rarely moves within the context of the scenes. All in all, if you're familiar with code correct, kid friendly horror comics of the 1970s, or enjoy high camp in general, then you'll probably dig on this feature, but if you're expecting some substantial, old school type frights, best skip this one. The film and the release are worth about two stars, but I'm tossing in an extra one for the sake of nostaligia.

Released by Image Entertainment from The Wade Williams Collections, the picture quality, presented in widescreen (2.35:1), non-anamorphic, on this DVD starts off poorly, as the first reel of the transfer element has quite a lot of white specking, but this does get better as the film goes on...there is wear and age element damage present throughout, but I've seen worse. The Dolby Digital stereo comes through cleanly. There are no extras included, but there are chapter stops, for what it's worth.

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By the way, one really funny aspect of the film worth mentioning is whenever it appears we're about to see some real violence or blood (usually at the end of the stories), an animated splash of blood covers on the screen, and we then transition into another tale or sequence. This was about as `special' as the special effects got in this feature.