Many people rate this film low because of its campiness and the less-than-usual acting from Cushing (who plays a crackpot writer named Wilbur Gray). And I freely admit the stories aren’t all that amazing, particularly the second with Lucy the witch and Wellington the cat. But there’s a feel to this film that makes it enjoyable nonetheless, a guilty pleasure that you would watch with your friends late at night while your parents are in another room.<\/p>\n
And sure, the blood is unrealistic, the gore is cleverly shown too quickly to notice (cats have a tendency to devour human flesh in this film, just like in real life). There’s no nudity or swearing, yet this is not a children’s movie. It falls into a category where you don’t know how to feel about it. These three shorts could each have been average episodes of “Tales From the Crypt” or a similar series of TV-friendly horror tales.<\/p>\n
Someone needs to tell me the significance of the comic books. In the second installment, a girl is reading “The Flash” and in the third, there is another comic being read (which is odd for a tale set in 1936, I imagine). I thought with “The Flash”, this might mean the picture was made by Warner Brothers and this was a subtle advertisement, but their fingers don’t dig into the pie of “The Uncanny”. (Why it’s called “The Uncanny” I have no idea… there are dozens of great cat titles that would have been better.) Why cast Cushing or Pleasance in a subpar film? I suppose because you can. And they did what they could with what was given to them (many critics pan Pleasance in this picture but I thoroughly enjoyed his role as “Valentine De’ath” and I thought it was cute when his mistress exclaimed, “Oh VD, I love you!”). If you can rent this film, rent it. I’m not sure if it’s worth owning (although if you’re a horror collector, you’ll want this one).<\/p>\n
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