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  • Actors: Steve Coogan, Graham Duff, Hayley Henderson, Sarah Henderson
  • Format: PAL
  • Language English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: 2 Entertain Video
  • DVD Release Date: 4 Aug 2003
  • Run Time: 180 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00009V90G
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 24,384 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Originally broadcast in 2001, Dr Terrible's House of Horrible is a six-part pastiche of 1970s Hammer Horror from Steve Coogan's Baby Cow production company. Each episode is topped and tailed by Coogan beneath a mass of prosthetics in a high-back leather chair as the avuncular, flatulent, faintly morally debauched Dr Terrible. "That was truly diabolical", he concludes of each show, a verdict with which one or two critics unkindly and unfairly concurred.

Coogan also stars in each as six different characters. In "And Now the Fearing...", for example. he plays rat-faced, unpleasant millionaire Denham Denham; in "Frenzy of Tongs"--a mickey-take of the Fu Manchu films--he's the insufferably suave Nathan Blaze, a Jason King-a-like; in "Scream, Satan Scream", meanwhile, he superimposes a parody of Peter Sellers over a lampoon of the Vincent Price film Witchfinder General.

Although most of these episodes are elaborate period pieces and genuine care has been made to render them as scary as possible, the real period detail has been in recreating the luridly quaint, over-acted, hammy feel of the 70s productions to which these episodes pay affectionate homage. Although hardly a perfect series, the camped-up daftness of the entire enterprise, a star-studded cast that includes Honor Blackman, John Thompson and Ronnie Ancona, some nice scripting and Coogan's versatility all make for a programme that's hard to dislike.

On the DVD Dr Terrible's House of Horrible is quite generous in its extras. These include "An Appointment with Terrible", a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the show, much of which was shot in the studio hangars where the original Hammer horrors were made, dry audio commentary by cowriters Graham Duff and Henry Normal and director Matt Lipsey, and "Behind the Screams" a mock-70s film journal ("only 10p!") reflecting on the making of one of the episodes. --David Stubbs



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Steve Coogan takes on a different guise in each of these self-contained chilling tales. From the grisly results of a ballroom dancer’s encounter with a giant pair of scissors, to the depths of vampiric lust and the misadventures of a 19th Century medical pioneer, each tale is introduced by the enigmatic Dr Terrible, and features well known performers from TV and cinema. Appointment with Dr Terrible is an opportunity to see Steve Coogan talking about his art.
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24 of 24 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Dr. Terrible's House of Horrible - Review!, 2 Sep 2003
By Ben "fatherdougal89" (UK, Manchester) - See all my reviews
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Where to start with this beautifully unique, dark, hammer horror spoof comedy starring the one and only Steve Coogan, in my opinion the ultimate king of comedy!
Unlike Coogans' other work such as I'm Alan Patridge which is indeed a comedy classic this is completely different and fresh, unlike any comedy programme I've ever seen in my life.
Each week Steve Coogan takes on a different guise as he presents six brilliant characters, each in a different spine chilling situation and in a different time zone.

The first show is called 'AND NOW THE FEARING. . .' which sees three people trapped in a lift. The trio then share their vividest nightmares one which includes a fortune teller, a car crash and an oak table. Scary!

Episode 2 is called 'FRENZY OF TONG' and see's Coogan as a camp version of Sherlock Holmers czlled Nathan Blaze. When a lady friend is kidnapped and dragged into the sewers, Blaze must overcome giant killer crabs and his arch enemy, a chinese monster, the king of the sewers. Doesn't sound very funny but believe me it is!

The third show is called 'CURSE OF THE BLOOD OF THE LIZARD OF DOOM' That's a mouthfull and see's Coogan portraying a brilliant scientist who is desperately trying to find a cure for a nasty burn. But everything turns very nasty when is told he has to find a cure of he is fired. Things turn very nasty when he gets a new assistant and a horrifying lizard is on the loose.

Show number four is called 'LESBIAN VAMPIREX LOVERS OF LUST' and is probably the most frightening. Coogan takes on a bold one armed hero called Captain Hans Broccan who is recently married. When they find their hotel is infested with cockroaches, they decide to stay at Castle Kroinsteen )a place of darkness - especially at night!!!) There things go from bad to worse, as the vampires there are creatures of the night and would like nothing more than to kill their guests and suck their blood too!

The penultamate episode is titled, 'VOODOO FEET OF DEATH' and see's Steve Coogan as an award winning ballroom dancer but in a freak accident he loses his feet. Not to worry though, he has an operation and has new feet fitted but unknown to him these feet are killers and are bent of revenge, jealousy and murder!

Finally, my personal favourite episode, 'SCREAM, SATAN, SCREAM' in the last episode of the brilliant series Steve Coogan plays a selfish witch locator named Captain Tobias Slater. As the story unfolds the crooked Captain must pursuade the village that the woman in question is a witch but the woman herself has other ideas.

All in all, a superb series. The disc is packed with special features including a documentary, 'AN APPOINTMENT WITH DR. TERRIBLE' which goes behind the scenes and features rare interviews with Steve Coogan, the rest of the cast and the directors. Also there's an audio commentary on all six episodes by the directors and writers which is also very good indeed, there is also Dr. Terrible's Page A Day calendar and a feature titled 'Behind the Screams'

In conclusion to this review, buy it if you are a fan of Steve Coogan, or if you like comedy with a slightly dark side. All in all I guarantee you won't be disappointed!

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10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely Necessary, 2 Sep 2003
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Dr Terrible's House of Horrible is a series which is a celebration of the age of Hammer Horror - with Steve Coogan starring as 7 different characters. In each of the 6 episodes, Steve appears as Dr Terrible, who introduces us to a tale of the supernatural. Each tale has Steve playing a different character, and he does so brilliantly without any flaws. In some cases it is almost impossible to recognise him (such as when he plays Dr Donald Baxter in The Curse of the Blood of the Lizard of Doom). Each tale is stuffed with humour, though it is an acquired taste. Fortunately, other comedies such as the League of Gentlemen (one episode starrs Mark Gatiss playing the chinese supervillian Hang Man Chang in the episode Frenzy of Tongs) also take a similar comic direction. If you like Alan Partridge and Steve Coogans other work then you should feel right at home with this.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Good but not five stars..., 8 Mar 2008
By Jose Elan (Bolton, UK.) - See all my reviews
When I first saw this program a few years ago I thought it was dreadful. Now I have revisited it after watching many a hammer horror film I realise I just didn't really 'get it'.

The only problem is that it is not a patch on Garth Marenghi's Darkplace so it cannot be five or even four stars whilst that exists (I literally can't imagine how Darkplace could be any better in direction, script and acting, the extras on the DVD are as good as the program too!)

My advice would be if you like Coogan AND hammer horror then it is a very good DVD and definitely worth having. If you don't fall into both categories you will be disappointed.....luckily, I do and I wasn't ;)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Parody of parodies is passable+
This homage to the Hammer movie genre of the 1960s and `70s is actually more of an homage to all the parodies, pastiches and p-takes that TV comedians have based on them over the... Read more
Published 2 months ago by James Hayes

2.0 out of 5 stars Great idea... but it's just not that funny
I'd love to have given this series a great revue... but unfortunately it just doesn't warrant one. It's basically a great high concept, but one that misfires pretty completely -... Read more
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4.0 out of 5 stars Good Fun
All episodes not as good as each other for us anyway, hence just 4 star.
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5.0 out of 5 stars "I have made a trap, and it is time for me to shut my trap"
Steve Coogan gives a great performance in this six part series. Episodes include Steve and two others trapped in a lift talking about nighmares they have had. Read more
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