本片以一个鬼怪故事为骨架，叙述了五个鬼故事。建筑师沃尔特·格兰杰到郊外一个农庄去洽谈业务。他感到农庄像旧地重游，原来他做过一个可怕的怪梦，屋里所有的人都在梦里出现过的。当他向客人谈及这怪事时，范医生发表自然怀疑论的看法，从而引出每个客人叙述了—段自己亲身经历的鬼故事。影片的结局是原来这一切都是那位建筑师的—场恶梦。英国电影评论家狄妮斯·鲍威尔对本片评价很高，他指出，影片的“许多材料是专为电影而写的...
　　五个故事
　　《柩车车夫》的故事讲汽车比赛驾驶员休·格兰杰因汽车赛受伤，躺在病房里。半夜，看见窗外停着的柩车边车夫向他招手。第二天他见到—辆双层公共汽车的售票员正是半夜见到的那个车夫。他不敢上车，几分钟后，这辆双层公共汽车失事翻车。《圣诞节故事》讲有一年圣诞节，姑娘萨利参加聚会。大家玩捉迷藏，萨利安慰一个孤独哭泣的小男孩。事后，有人告诉她，小男孩早在几年前被他的姐姐杀死。《妖镜》讲的是琼·考特兰买了一面古老的镜子，送给未婚夫彼得。彼得照镜子时，反映出发生过主人谋杀妻子凶杀案的屋子。彼得的心理被镜子里的人控制，他动手扼住琼的喉咙。琼机智地打碎了魔镜。彼得才从梦魇中解脱出来。《玩高尔大球的故事》讲两个玩高尔夫球的好朋友，同时爱上一个女人。不久，其中一个死了，另一个同那女人结婚。新婚之夜，死去的高尔夫球手来“显灵”，搞恶作剧。《腹语家的木偶》讲一个腹语家被他的木偶蛊惑的遭遇。

　　此片不同于以往的 Hammer 吸血鬼的故事模式，描写由吸血鬼化身而成的巡迴马戏团来到一个已经遭受诅咒与疫情的村落，并且带来灾难的故事。此部片的故事背景设定在19世纪的塞尔维亚，这些如吉普赛人般的马戏团成员事实上都是会变身的吸血鬼。

　　American psychologist John Holden arrives in London to participate in a symposium aiming to expose witchcraft and devil-worship as a fraud, with attention centered on a cult run by a Julian Karswell. Debarking his plane, Holden learns that the symposium leader, Henry Harrington, has suddenly died and he is now in charge. What only the audience knows is that Harrington was clearly killed by a demon, apparently summoned by Karswell to avenge his persecution. Despite both threatening and cajoling behavior by Karswell, Holden determines to proceed, though the only cult member willing to talk about his experiences is in a prison psychiatric ward, catatonic after allegedly killing yet another cult member. However, Harrington's niece, Joanna, believes, based on her uncle's notes, that Karswell may indeed have some satanic powers derived from an ancient tome in an obscure language which he has been able to translate, and attempts to warn the skeptic Holden. Karswell's mother also attempts to warn Holden off. However, the thing which begins to most get to Holden are the occasional, but mounting, sensory and mental disturbances he begins experiencing after an encounter with Karswell, and the discovery that, during this encounter, Karswell secretly slipped a slip of parchment with a curse in runic symbols on it into Holden's belongings, a parchment identical to one Harrington recorded having had passed to him in a similar manner shortly before his death... [N.B. Holden at no point stays at the Karswell estate].

　　1：...And All Through the House
　　这个故事讲述一名在圣诞前夕谋杀了自己丈夫的女子正在处理尸体之际，曾在广播中报道过的一名有着强烈杀人倾向并乔装成圣诞老人的模样变态却逃窜到她家附近，而这时的她却无法报警....
　　2：Reflection of Death
　　一名男子为了私奔，不惜抛妻弃子，深夜与情人驾车逃离本来的居处，可是在路上却发生了令人异想不到的恐怖事件，这个故事十分精彩，后期的《小岛惊魂》，甚至是《死神来了》等很多恐怖片的灵感来源都可以在这个故事里得到充分体现
　　3：Poetic Justice
　　讲述两名冷酷势力的父子，为了赶走他们一向讨厌的邻居，用尽残忍冷酷的手段而逼死他人并最终得到报复的故事，这个故事非常传统，剧情也几近老套，但是由于老牌演员Peter Cushing那令人惊叹，入木三分的表演而提高到了另一个层次，让观众深深为故事里那位受尽排挤，但却善良孤独的老人而同情悲愤。

　　A young woman is invited by her girlfriend, who lives in an English country mansion, to stay there with her. The estate, however, isn't quite what it seems--and neither is the friend who issued the invitation.

　　本片由一位探长调查一间明星失踪案开始，分别阐述了四段围绕在一间老屋的恐怖故事。第一个故事讲述了一对夫妇搬来这间老屋，丈夫是位恐怖小说家，没想到笔下创造的恐怖人物竟然出现在现实生活了；第二个故事讲了一个退休的经纪人搬来这间屋子住，偶然发现小镇上有间蜡像馆，里面有一个叫“莎乐美”的蜡像有着动人的美貌，让他无法忘记，可是事情却越来越离奇；第三个故事讲了一位父亲带着女儿来到老屋，父亲请来了一位女家教教导女儿学习，后来女家教发现女儿和父亲各有蹊跷；第四个故事讲的是一个准备拍摄吸血鬼电影的明星搬来老屋，因为拍摄现场需要吸血鬼斗篷，他来到一家神秘的商店买了一件古老的斗篷，结果让他变成真正的吸血鬼。

　　A singer holes up at a sinister estate to write new songs for his act. The ghost of his murdered wife begins to haunt him, then the person who actually killed her shows up at the mansion.

　　In 1830, forty years to the day since the last manifestation of their dreaded vampirism, the Karnstein heirs use the blood of an innocent to bring forth the evil that is the beautiful Mircalla - or as she was in 1710, Carmilla

　　Dracula is resurrected, preying on four unsuspecting visitors to his castle.

　　佩妮（苏珊·斯塔丝伯格 Susan Strasberg 饰）的父母在她很小的时候就离婚了，一直以来，佩妮都跟着母亲生活。一场意外夺走了母亲的生命，于是，孤苦无依的佩妮接受了父亲的邀请，前去和父亲以及继母一起生活。然而到了父亲家，佩妮却发现在那里的只有继母一人，虽然这个女人表现得非常的和善与热情，但佩妮还是对她充满了戒备。
　　继母家里发生的各种诡异的事情，以及始终下落不明的父亲让佩妮的神经越来越紧张，渐渐地，她开始分不清，在这里经历的一切，究竟是不是自己的幻觉。很显然，继母也希望佩妮产生这让的自我怀疑。

　　四名艺高人胆大兼自称拥有超自然力量的人，为了十万英镑冒险闯进盛传冤魂不息的地狱之屋，誓要证实鬼神之说。四人态度各异，有人相信鬼魂的存在，有人更相信能与它们沟通，有人则是无神论者。姑无论如何，创进猛鬼屋就等于半只脚踏进地狱之门，血腥死亡，触目惊心，恐怖吓人，惨叫声不绝，鬼影幢幢……你有胆进入叫你心脏停顿的地狱之屋吗？

　　爱伦坡、文森特·普莱斯、克里斯托弗李黄金组合，唯一的遗憾就是两个人对手戏太少了！伦敦发生了一起杀人事件，凶手竟然是已经死去的人？电影多线叙事节奏比较紧凑，结尾也有十分“普莱斯”的表演。电影缺点也有，除了几个穿帮镜头，主要还是VP跟Lee的对手戏太少！但喜欢两位演员的朋友必须得看这片，两个人单人戏份很足，何况能看一部是一部了。  

　　A murderous religious cult is way-laying travellers and stealing goods in nineteenth century India. As the disappearances mount and trade becomes difficult, the British East India Company is forced to act. But they give the job to an upper-class officer completely out-of-touch with the country rather than the obvious candidate who has been in India for years and well understands the people and culture.

　　An English school teacher outposted in Africa has a run in with the local witch doctor and suffers a nervous breakdown. After recovering back in England she takes a job teaching in a small country town hoping to make a new start for herself. All goes well at first, until she starts to hear some disturbing stories about the town. She soon discovers the town is home to a coven of witches and they plan to sacrifice a local girl in one of their rituals.

　　四十年前以凌厉音效先声夺人，惊吓声威至今仍非同凡响。以疯人院板球赛的倒叙展开，前卫音乐家（尊赫）与妻子居于宁静村庄，不速之客一日突然到访。神秘男子（阿伦卑斯）自称在澳洲内陆杀死妻儿，并学会土著巫术，能以呐喊置人于死地。在海岸沙丘上张臂一呼，令音乐家崩倒，牧羊人与羊群丧命；魅惑亦令妻子迷倒，取代男主人位置。瘫痪孩子、斜倚裸女与主教头像，培根三幅扭曲人像呈现三个主角的畸零病态；文明与原始、理性与荒谬、真实与虚幻的对峙，在杜比音响下环回扩张，令诡异惊栗加倍撼人心魄。

　　在康沃尔郡的一个村庄里，许多当地人死于神秘的蛇咬伤，但验尸官将死亡定为心脏病发作，直到一个新来的家庭开始调查。

　　16世纪英格兰饱受内战的困扰，普通百姓与保皇党的抗争延续了数年，这场战争诱导了人民崇尚迷信，人们内心中的邪念就此被唤醒......

　　In 1828 Scotland, Edinburgh surgeon Dr. Knox does medical research on cadavers he buys from murderers Burke and Hare, without questioning the unethical procurement methods.

　　科学狂人把美女变成怪物

　　An anthology of five horror stories shared by five men trapped in the basement of an office building

　　Norman Taylor is a successful young professor, married with Tansy Taylor. He is a very skeptical man, while his wife believes in magic and witchcraft. One day, he finds lots of amulets and witchcraft in his house, and he decides to destroy all of them. His wife gets scared and advises him that he destroyed all the protection their home and lives had against the evil of envious and wicked persons, including some of his colleagues. Norman in principle does not have faith in her, but many strange events happen with him, and he changes his mind

　　Ian Stone（Mike Vogel 饰）最近的生活陷入了一片混乱：每一天，在时间停止的瞬间，他总会被不知名的怪物杀死，尽管“死后重生”，他又会以不同的身份开始新的生活，办公室的小职员、出租车司机、吸毒者……，但是死亡的命运却不可抗拒。
　　在如噩梦般的生活中，唯一不变的是他的女朋友Jenny（Christina Cole 饰），用不同的身份出现在他身边，还有一个神秘的老人，试图告诉他事实的真相。
　　Ian Stone渐渐发现，Jenny才是怪物们的目标，只要Jenny还活着，他就不用回到暗无天日的过去。

　　一群医学院实习医生某晚在医院附近酒吧玩乐时捉弄具有偷窥癖的医院清洁工肯尼斯（安德鲁-李•波茨 Andrew-Lee Potts 饰），并戏虐他为“疯狗”。被逼饮酒过量的肯尼斯癫痫发作昏厥，成为植物人，就要被终止治疗实施安乐死。倍感内疚的实习医生凯萨琳（阿莉尔•凯贝尔 Arielle Kebbel 饰）违反章程给肯尼斯注射了某种还在实验阶段的混合药物，试图让肯尼斯尽早苏醒，却没想到药物竟促成了肯尼斯灵魂出窍，附体到他人身上开始残忍的复仇行动。等到凯萨琳察觉出问题所在，却为时已晚，肯尼斯的灵魂早已脱离掌控，不管是陌生人还是朋友，甚至包括自己，凯萨琳还能相信谁？