Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1985 in DVD
• Released on: 2007-10-15
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• Format: PAL
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 94 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
From Beyond the Grave is an anthology film adapted from four short stories by R. Chetwynd-Hayes, strung together under the pretext of an antique dealer who owns a shop called Temptations Ltd. and the fate that befalls his customers who try to cheat him. First up is "The Gate Crasher" with David Warner who frees an evil entity from an antique mirror; then "An Act of Kindness" featuring Donald Pleasence; followed by "The Elemental;" and "The Door."

From Beyond The Grave was the directorial debut of Kevin Connor who would go onto become a modest name in genre cinema. It was actually one of Connor’s best films and he demonstrates exceptional directorial style. Particularly good are the seance scenes in the first episode where Connor conducts some inventive 360-degree pan shots with a candle that explodes between a flickering flame and a jet in the foreground. The murders in this segment are vividly staged, with Connor creating some marvelously sinister images of David Warner standing about in bloodstained clothes and a totally wrecked apartment. --Sally Giles

Synopsis
The visitors to a strange antique shop meet with violent deaths. An atmospheric horror film filled with unusual twists and turns and a uniformly high level of acting.

Customer Reviews

Temptation Waits. A big novelty surprise goes with every purchase.
Down an unassuming little side street lies an unassuming little shop, called Temptations Ltd.
It is advisable upon entering this shop to be honest, and not to lie or cheat the proprietor(Peter Cushing),
no matter how much you may be tempted.
For if you do, something life threatening or at least life changing will happen to you.
Shoplifting here carries a very high price indeed.
With this interesting and highly original premise, I think what follows are some of the best Horror short stories ever committed to film.
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"The Gate Crasher" - a rather blood thirsty tale, in the literal sense, with David Warner and involving an Antique Mirror. One of his friends has the idea of holding a seance in the same room as the mirror, a very bad idea.
"FEED ME....BLOOD".
"An Act of Kindness" - a man with an unhappy married life tries to impress a down on his luck army veteran, by stealing an important medal from Temptations Ltd. A very bad move, which leads to severe family discord.
"The Elemental" - Ian Carmichael plays a fastidious and devious civil servant, who cheats Cushing out of the full price of a snuff box by substituting a cheaper price tag for the real one. As Cushing amusingly says as Carmichael's character leaves the shop. "I hope you enjoy snuffing it", but Carmichael's wife corrects his devious habits, permanently.
"The Door" - A young couple purchase a 16th century door, one night the young man opens the door and finds not the stationery cupboard that should be there but a mysterious blue room. And the room's owner isn't the kind of person you would like living next door to.
Interweaved between these stories are scenes of a dodgy looking character attempting to enter the shop, but hurrying away everytime a customer enters, he ends up getting the Point.
The morality of this film is a simple one, honesty is always the best policy.
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If you like multi story British horror films, you may like these, I find them most satisfying and I hope you do.
Dr Terror's House of Horrors.(1964)
Torture Garden.(1967)
The House that Dripped Blood.(1970)
Asylum.(1972)
Tales From the Crypt.(1972)
Vault of Horror.(1973)
The Monster Club.(1980)
Happy Shivers.

Four quality horror tales in one - bargain!
Sometimes older horror tales told through the scope of short vignettes can be dated and daft, but I really like this collection. Some of the tales are really rather spooky, not with shock-factor blood and guts but more in an eerie and unsettling way... like all the best horror classics, they get in your brain and leave you thinking about them in quite moments afterwards. I also liked the inclusion of morality behind the stories, and the camera work is really quite inventive and well-crafted considering these are not modern productions. Discerning film fans will enjoy this collection immensely... great production, great plots, great actors... great stuff!

Seventies horror at its' strangest
This film consists of four stories all revolving around a quirky antique shop with Peter Cushing as the proprietier.In all instances the customers who enter the shop and browse about make a purchase and manage in some way to dupe the unsuspecting shopkeeper out of the full price of their trinket of choice or in one case, exchange the price tag for a cheaper one. In the first tale, a young gentleman purchases an ornately guided mirror for a fraction of the asking price and gets more than he bargained for after holding a seance one night in his apartment. A ghostly face appears in the mirror speaking in dried up ghastly voice, the young man is then forced to go on a number of gruesome killing errands for his new ghoulish aquaintance. In another instance, a buissnessman is reluctantly persuaded to seek the assistance of an eccentric clairevoyant to rid himself of an unwanted invisible "elemental" who causes a consderable amount of domestic disharmony to both him and his wife after decieving the antique dealer on the price of a small snuff box. In the final story another young man purchases a heavy wooden door with a large carving of a lions' head to replace the door on a stationery cupboard.One day he opens the door to a very eerie blue stone room with a tall stained glass window and an archaic and not all together friendly inhabitant. This drama results in having to take an axe to the door to destroy the uncanny room and and the malevolent prescence. At the end we see that the shopkeeper is almost robbed at gunpoint by a shady character who is seen every so often lurking about near the store, he also ends up with a nasty surprise. The dealer remains unharmed and lives to continue his buisness, that's how the film concludes. If you are a fan of seventies horror films you may well find this entertaining or you like tales with a lesson to them. The theme seems to be throughout this that it's always best to be honest. This is an anthology style film in the mould of "Tales from the crypt".