Three stories interwoven together and starred by the great Karen Black. All of them are filled with mystery , suspense , terror , grisly killings , twisted events and horrible happenings. The first, : ¨Julie¨about a college student infatuated with his teacher , as she is blackmailed by one of her pupils for a past indiscretion in which she played an unwilling part, but then things go wrong , and she turns the tables on him the first chance she gets . The second, ¨Millicent and Therese" a paranoid tale of two sisters - one good girl , the other bad girl , only their doctor who visits from time to time knows the real thing behind the scenario . And the the final story : ¨Amelia¨, equally starred by Karen Black in a solo terror story monologue concerning a woman who buys an African Zuni fetish , it results to be actually a Native American voodoo doll that comes to life and pursues and attacks on her own flat . An electrifying experience - you won't believe your eyes !
A vintage , bizarre horror film financed from producer/director Dan Curtis and written by prestigious writer Richard Matheson , formed by three episodes ¨Julie¨, ¨Millicent and Therese" and ¨Amelia¨, with full of creepy events , chills , surprises , thrills and horrifying scens . These tense terror stories all of which stars Karen Black in four different roles playing tormented women : a sexually-repressed college teacher who is blackmailed by a pupil , a reclusive woman who lives with her amoral twin sister and a woman who's terrorized after buying a doll that chases and mistreats her . It deals with three entertaining and chilling segments ; all of them competently performed by Karen Black , accompanied by a familiar cast , such as : Gregory Harrison , John Karlen and George Gaynes of ¨Police Academy¨franchise .
These three horror anthology stories of tormented women being compellingly directed and in limited budget , as shooting was completed in a few weeks . Being financed by the notorious producer/directed by Dan Curtis at his best . Curtis created the series about Kolchak or Night Stalker (1972) , in fact in first segment the starring appears at a drive-in theater where can be seen showing the movie "The Night Stalker", this is an in-joke reference to filmmaker himself . Dan was a good writer, producer and director of TV series , working from the 60s . Curtis was a specialist in terror genre as proved in ¨Dark shadows¨, ¨Trilogy of terror¨, ¨Night Stalker¨, or ¨Scream of wolf , ¨Night Strangler¨¨ and successful wartime series filmmaker as ¨Winds of war¨ and ¨War and remembrance¨ , among others . Trilogy of Terror(1975) rating : 6.5/10 . Better than average horror movie. THe flick will appeal to terror enthusiasts and Karen Black fans .
