Five strangers board a descending lift, one by one, in a modern office block in London. They reach the sub-basement, though none of them have pressed for that destination. There they find a large, elaborately furnished room that appears to be a gentlemen’s club. The lift door has closed; there are no buttons to bring it back, nor any other exit. Resigned to waiting for help, they settle down with drinks and talk. The conversation turns to dreams, and each man tells of a recurring nightmare.
Production Details
An Amicus Production
Produced at Shepperton Studios
93 Mins
Stills from film
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Hammer Connections
Crew | Name | Age at Release | Birth | Hidden | Death | Age | Hammer Productions |
Art Direction | Tony Curtis | 36 | 25 Jan 1937 | 8 Jan 2021 | 83 | 1 | |
Camera Operator | John Harris | 47 | 15 May 1925 | 3 Jul 2012 | 87 | 2 | |
Chief Hairdresser | Mibs Parker | 8 | |||||
Chief Make-up Artist | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/roy-ashton/# | 63 | 16 Apr 1909 | 10 Jan 1995 | 85 | 40 | |
Clapper Loader | Trevor Coop | 27 | 16 Sep 1945 | 16.09.1945 | 79 | 2 | |
Conductor | Douglas Gamley | 48 | 24 Sep 1924 | 5 Feb 1998 | 73 | 3 | |
Continuity | Betty Harley | 6 | |||||
Director | Roy Ward Baker | 56 | 19 Dec 1916 | 5 Oct 2010 | 93 | 8 | |
Focus Puller | David Wynn-Jones | 28 | Aug 1944 | 01.08.1944 | 80 | 2 | |
Music | Douglas Gamley | 48 | 24 Sep 1924 | 5 Feb 1998 | 73 | 3 | |
Producer | Max Rosenberg | 58 | 13 Sep 1914 | 14 Jun 2004 | 89 | 1 | |
Second Assistant Editor | Anthony Sloman | 27 | 6 May 1945 | 06.05.1945 | 79 | 1 | |
Set Dresser | Fred Carter | 41 | 1932 | 01.01.1932 | 92 | 3 | |
Wardrobe Master | John Briggs | 1 | |||||
Cast | Name | Age at Release | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Productions | |
Alex | Edward Judd | 40 | 4 Oct 1932 | 24 Feb 2009 | 76 | 2 | |
Bob Dickson | Maurice Kaufmann | 45 | 29 Jun 1927 | 21 Sep 1997 | 70 | 4 | |
Breedley | Terence Alexander | 50 | 11 Mar 1923 | 28 May 2009 | 86 | 2 | |
Diltant | Denholm Elliott | 50 | 31 May 1922 | 6 Oct 1992 | 70 | 2 | |
Gravedigger | Arthur Mullard | 62 | 19 Sep 1910 | 11 Dec 1995 | 85 | 4 | |
Inez | Dawn Addams | 42 | 21 Sep 1930 | 7 May 1985 | 54 | 2 | |
Jane | Marianne Sherman | 1 | |||||
Landlord | Tommy Godfrey | 56 | 20 Jun 1916 | 24 Jun 1984 | 68 | 2 | |
Male Customer | Frank Forsyth | 67 | 19 Dec 1905 | 2 May 1984 | 78 | 6 | |
Old Waiter | Erik Chitty | 65 | 8 Jul 1907 | 22 Jul 1977 | 70 | 2 | |
Passerby On Street | Roy Evans | 43 | 10 Jan 1930 | 10.01.1930 | 94 | 3 | |
Restaurant Vampire | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/jack-armstrong# | 8 | |||||
Restaurant Vampire | Anthony Lang | 2 Mar 1992 | 3 | ||||
Restaurant Vampire | George Oliver | 2 | |||||
Waiter | Jerold Wells | 64 | 8 Aug 1908 | 19 Jul 1999 | 90 | 4 | |
Wilson | John Forbes-Robertson | 44 | 10 May 1928 | 14 May 2008 | 80 | 2 |
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Footnotes
Filmed August-September 1972. The only “Amicus” anthology in which Peter Cushing does not appear, as he was still shooting Amicus’s And Now the Screaming Starts!, which began July 17.