Amicus Portmanteau Horror Films

There are 7 of these episodic films from Amicus Productions beginning with "Dr Terror's House of Horrors" (1964) until "From Beyond The Grave" (1973)

Amicus is perhaps best known for Milton Subotsky's own trademark portmanteau horror anthologies, inspired by the Ealing Studios film Dead of Night.
Amicus' portmanteau films included
Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1964), directed by genre stalwart Freddie Francis,
Torture Garden (1967),
The House That Dripped Blood (1970),
Tales From The Crypt and Vault of Horror (1973).
The last two were based on stories from EC horror comics from the 1950s. These films, typically feature four or sometimes five short horror stories, linked by an overarching plot featuring a narrator and those listening to his story. The casts of these films are invariably composed of name actors, each of whom play small parts in the various stories. Along with the expected genre stars, such as Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee and Herbert Lom, Amicus also drew its actors from the classical British stage (Patrick Magee, Margaret Leighton and even Sir Ralph Richardson), up-and-comers (Donald Sutherland, Robert Powell and Tom Baker), or former stars on the way down (Richard Greene, Robert Hutton, and Terry-Thomas). Some, such as Joan Collins, Britt Ekland and Charlotte Rampling were in their mid-career doldrums when they signed on with Amicus.

Torture Garden and The House That Dripped Blood were were written by Robert Bloch, based upon his own stories with the exception that the Waxworks segment of The House That Dripped Blood was scripted (uncredited) by Russ Jones, based on the Bloch story. The earlier non-portmanteau film The Skull was also based on a Bloch story (though scripted by Milton Subotsky), and Bloch was also the screenwriter of The Psychopath and the adaptation of The Deadly Bees (based upon H. F. Heard's A Taste of Honey).

Vault of Horror 1973 starred Terry Thomas as an independant man of means with a serious case of OCD. Daniel and Anna Massey as siblings with an inheritance. Michael Craig and Edward Judd (The First Men In The Moon) with a scam in mind. Curt Jurgens (Stromberg in The Spy Who Loved Me) as an arrogant magician on holiday in India.

From Beyond The Grave 1973 starred a host of talent:
Peter Cushing as the Curiosity Shop Owner connecting the stories.
David Warner in an early role buying an ancient mirror with a History.
Ian Carmichael with a snuff box and a malevolent elemental.
Ian Ogilvy with a centuries old door.
Ian Bannen as a very memorable downtrodden husband, hen-pecked by wife Diana Dors.
Donald Pleasence with his real life daughter Angela magnificently cast as sinister otherworldly daughter Emily who, "doesn't often get to meet a real gentleman. . . "