“Welcome to Oldfield. Stop in for a night of pure terror.”
The uncle of an executed murderess relates four stories of his hometown, Oldfield, to a reporter. In the first, an elderly man pursues a romance with a younger woman, even to the grave and beyond. In the second, a wounded man on the run from creditors is rescued by a backwoods hermit who holds the secret to eternal life. In the third, a glass-eating carny pays the ultimate price for looking for love on the outside. And in the fourth, a group of Civil War soldiers are held captive by a household of orphans with strange intentions for them.
Vincent Price
Julian White
Clu Gulager
Stanley Burnside
Terry Kiser
Jesse Hardwick
Harry Caesar
Felder Evans
Rosalind Cash
Snakewoman
Cameron Mitchell
Sgt. Gallen
Susan Tyrrell
Beth Chandler
Martine Beswick
Katherine White
Ron Brooks
Steven Arden
Miriam Byrd-Nethery
Eileen Burnside
From a Whisper to a Scream is a horror film released in 1987 exploring themes of civil war, necrophilia, voodoo, narration, anthology, librarian. Directed by Jeff Burr, it stars Vincent Price, Clu Gulager, Terry Kiser. The uncle of an executed murderess relates four stories of his hometown, Oldfield, to a reporter. In the first, an elderly man pursues a romance with a younger woman, even to the grave and beyond. In the second, a wounded man on the run from creditors is rescued by a backwoods hermit who holds the secret to eternal life. In the third, a glass-eating carny pays the ultimate price for looking for love on the outside. And in the fourth, a group of Civil War soldiers are held captive by a household of orphans with strange intentions for them.
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