FilmRWitchcraft & Occult Splatter & Gore Gothic

From a Whisper to a Scream1987

Name: From a Whisper to a Scream
Genre: Witchcraft & Occult, Splatter & Gore, Gothic, Folk Horror
Released: 1987-09-25
Rating: 5.8

“Welcome to Oldfield. Stop in for a night of pure terror.”

Directed by Jeff Burr

5.8

Crypt Score

Blended from 2 sources

IMDb 5.7TMDB 5.8

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Year

1987

Runtime

100 min

Box Office

Budget

$1,100,000

Revenue (worldwide)

$1,400,000

Domestic

$1,355,728

The premise

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.

Horror Vault's take

A legendary horror host presides over four twisted tales all rooted in the cursed soil of a single Southern town called Oldfield. Each vignette plumbs a different shade of depravity — from doomed romance and backwoods sorcery to carnival freakdom and Civil War dread — connected by a wraparound frame that gives the anthology its chilling sense of place. The stories escalate in strangeness and savagery, making clear that Oldfield breeds a very particular kind of evil. It's a love letter to the EC Comics tradition, delivered with Grand Guignol relish.

Content: Necrophilia Themes, Graphic Violence, Body Horror, Gore, Disturbing Imagery Involving Children