Name This Film(s) Please

I remember seeing a horror film many years ago. I'm fairly
certain that it is a British production circa 1970 or so. The
film is one of those that has several stories. I listed below
some of those plots, but I don't know if they are part of
one film, or several other films. The film's name could be
something like "Anthologies From Hell" (totally made up title).

PLOTS:

(1) This tale is about a tailor, and a very remarkable suit he makes.
The tailor lives in his shop with his daughter. One day a man
comes to his shop with a very special job. The man's son, or
a relative has just died. The man commissions the tailor to
make a very special suit, based on very specific instructions.
The odd customer has brought some strange
material from which the special suit is to be made.

The tailor's daughter is a very lonely woman. So lonely that
she falls in love with a mannequin in her father's shop!When
the strange suit is completed, she dressed the mustachioed
mannequin in it while her father awaited for his client
to return. The mannequin comes alive, and kills the father!
The woman and her hard headed friend live happily ever after.

(2) This story is even more vague. It involves a couple who end
up inside a painting of a castle run by some evil sadist.
The time period in which they are transported seems to be
around 17th century France. The French sadist
has long jet black shoulder length hair. The hair is
super curly as if it had been in rollers. He has a pencil
thin black waxed mustache with a curlicue twist on the either
end, which was typical of French nobility during
that time, Think Louis XIV, or XV.

He has killed many people in his castle. He is about
to kill this couple, but some last minute act of
atonement by them saves them (I can't remember).

(3) The same series as above included a story most
people would know as the "Monkey's Paw." A
family has three wishes with the paw. Each time a
wish is granted, it comes with a very high cost. For
example they wish for money; they get it but a family
dies. That family member was heavily insured, so they
get their money from the proceeds from his death.

They use the paw to wish the man back to life. His
body is in a coffin at the family home because they
were having a wake, or something. He does come
back to life, BUT his body is full of embalming fluid;
he is screaming in complete agony in his coffin gasping
and pleading to be dead again, or be tortured for eternity.
I think the last wish was for him to be dead again.

I have seen a version of the Monkey's Paw on
Alfred Hitchcock, and other places but want to
know which film the above attaches to.

Thanks,

Del

"Delbert Stanley" <dgstan.TakeThisOut@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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>I remember seeing a horror film many years ago. I'm fairly
> certain that it is a British production circa 1970 or so. The
> film is one of those that has several stories. I listed below
> some of those plots, but I don't know if they are part of
> one film, or several other films. The film's name could be
> something like "Anthologies From Hell" (totally made up title).
>
> PLOTS:
>
> (1) This tale is about a tailor, and a very remarkable suit he makes.
> The tailor lives in his shop with his daughter. One day a man
> comes to his shop with a very special job. The man's son, or
> a relative has just died. The man commissions the tailor to
> make a very special suit, based on very specific instructions.
> The odd customer has brought some strange
> material from which the special suit is to be made.
>
> The tailor's daughter is a very lonely woman. So lonely that
> she falls in love with a mannequin in her father's shop!When
> the strange suit is completed, she dressed the mustachioed
> mannequin in it while her father awaited for his client
> to return. The mannequin comes alive, and kills the father!
> The woman and her hard headed friend live happily ever after.
>
> (2) This story is even more vague. It involves a couple who end
> up inside a painting of a castle run by some evil sadist.
> The time period in which they are transported seems to be
> around 17th century France. The French sadist
> has long jet black shoulder length hair. The hair is
> super curly as if it had been in rollers. He has a pencil
> thin black waxed mustache with a curlicue twist on the either
> end, which was typical of French nobility during
> that time, Think Louis XIV, or XV.
>
> He has killed many people in his castle. He is about
> to kill this couple, but some last minute act of
> atonement by them saves them (I can't remember).
>
> (3) The same series as above included a story most
> people would know as the "Monkey's Paw." A
> family has three wishes with the paw. Each time a
> wish is granted, it comes with a very high cost. For
> example they wish for money; they get it but a family
> dies. That family member was heavily insured, so they
> get their money from the proceeds from his death.
>
> They use the paw to wish the man back to life. His
> body is in a coffin at the family home because they
> were having a wake, or something. He does come
> back to life, BUT his body is full of embalming fluid;
> he is screaming in complete agony in his coffin gasping
> and pleading to be dead again, or be tortured for eternity.
> I think the last wish was for him to be dead again.
>
> I have seen a version of the Monkey's Paw on
> Alfred Hitchcock, and other places but want to
> know which film the above attaches to.
>
>


you've mixed up a number of films!

the one where they are sent back in time is from 'from beyond the grave' -
in that one the people buy an old door from peter cushing's antique shop and
it turns their stationery cupboard into a doorway to said nasty place.

the monkey's paw one is from 'tales from the crypt' - the amicus movie i
think - if not it's from another amicus anthology such as vault of horror.

the tailor one is from 'asylum' - another amicus movie.


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Gareth.
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