Review – Tales that Witness Madness

Reviewers that witness bad movies. Donald Pleasance plays a psychiatrist who brackets the stories of four mental patients with eerie back-stories. Or perhaps it would be better to say “eerily familiar.” The first bears a strong resemblance to John Collier’s “Thus I Refute Beelzy” only with an imaginary-or-is-it tiger rather than a demon. The next has a distinct under-taste of D.H. Lawrence’s “The Rocking Horse Winner.” The other two aren’t quite as closely tied to anything specific (at least nothing I recognized), but they’re nonetheless born clichés with completely predictable outcomes. I was in the mood for a murky British horror anthology piece when I watched this, so I may have liked it a bit better than I should have. Mildly amusing