Vault Of Horror (1973)

Five strangers on an elevator find themselves in the sub-basement of an office building. It is there that they each share their recurrent nightmares: a brother (Daniel Massey) searches for his sister (Anna Massey), a neat freak (Terry Thomas) drives his wife (Glynis Johns) to the brink, a magician (Curt Jurgens) must learn the secret of a rope trick at any cost, a man (Michael Craig) schemes with his friend (Edward Judd) to defraud the insurance company and an artist (Tom Baker) seeks revenge on those who ruined his career. A follow up to Amicus's popular TALES FROM THE CRYPT (1972), this wasn't as well received. I don't know why as it's a more than decent horror anthology film. As with all omnibus movies, the quality is uneven but none of them are terrible and there's a thread of black humor in several of the tales. My own favorites were the brother and sister story with real life brother and sister Daniel and Anna Massey and the marriage anecdote with Glynis Johns and Terry Thomas. Horror fans should find something to their taste in one of the stories. With Denholm Elliott, Dawn Addams and Marianne Stone.