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Gory horror anthology film with pretentious touches and more recognizable veteran actors than it deserves. As usual with the older anthologies they needed a central character to hold things together in wraparound segments. That role goes to the great Vincent Price, slumming for subsequent generations of classic horror fans to shed a tear over. Seeing him here sitting down reminded me a lot of Bela Lugosi in those awful Ed Wood movies he made at the end. Unlike the old Amicus anthologies that had charm and class this is just gross with pathetic attempts at being artsy fartsy. You can always spot a rookie director when you see that stuff. Looking at the rest of this Burr guy's output I can't say I'm surprised he never went on to anything successful.

Vincent Price was a master of the macabre in movies. In his later years here, Price is Julian White who plays a librarian who spins tales of horror to a reporter. The only good thing about this ensemble of sicko characters is the film's surprise ending.

"From a Whisper to a Scream" is a collection of one gory story after another, each one trying to outdo the previous one. The stories take place around a fictional town of Oldfield, Tennessee.

None of the stories is very good or intriguing. This is mostly horror for the sake of those who enjoy horror.

There are some decent anthologies from the 1960s and 70s, I especially like the ones Amicus distributed, but nearly every anthology from the 1980s is SO self-consciously bad - in that, I think they're trying to be bad for comedic effect? - that I cannot even watch them all the way through. They're not scary they're just stupid.

While admitting relief in locating that film that was fuzzy in my memory about a demonic grave baby, I cannot profess any affection for the skit or any other in this drab attempt at what was most likely just a cash grab.

I can only hope these were made en masse to entertain twelve year olds who were more easily frightened 30 or 40 years ago by voodoo dolls and obvious "bad guys."