Horror movie set in a small Tennesse town calle Oldfield dealing with four stories of past evils and the teller Vincent Price reveals his hometown can force folks to murder. Welcome to Oldfield, Tennesse, population : deadly!. Stop in for a night of pure terror!

An antology movie in Hammer, Amicus and Tigon style that during the 60s and 70s made a lot of these horrifying kinds of stories . This morbid film with strong yunk factor is formed by four creepy tales with acceptable cast, such as Susan Tyrell, Martine Beswick, Clu Gulager, Rosalind Cash, Terry Kiser, Angelo Rossito, Rosalind Cash, Lawrence Tierney, Cameron Mitchell, among others . And Vincent Price is pretty well, as always. Vincent Price gives a nice but short acting in his usual style, he's considered to be one of the best horror myths including classic terror films as The Fly, The Tingler, Tales of terror, Pit and the pendulum, The Haunted Palace, The Raven, The masque of the Red Death, The tomb of Ligeia, Witchfinder General, The abominable Dr Phibes, Theatre of Blood, Madhouse, The Monster Club, among others . However isn't the usual Price material due to contain cannibalism, dismemberment, excessive gore, and necrophilia. The first tale concerns an elderly man : Clu Gulager falls for a job colleague, but the romance ends in killing, necrophilia and a terrifying revenge. The second one concerns an injured debtor : Terry Kiser mercilessly chased by creditors, on the run he meets a hermit : Harry Caesar who heals him, however Kiser attempts to steal him the secret of eternal life, then a grisly vengeance takes place. The third chapter dealing with a circus attraction, there a glass-eating carny showman pays a definitive price for seeking love outside the claws of a voodoo woman : Rosalind Cash. Final episode regards The Corn Children with a group of soldiers led by Seargent Cameron Mitchell from American Civil War, they are held captive, mistreated, tortured by a household of waifs wth fateful intentions.

The motion picture was shot in medium budget and professionally made by Jeff Burr, though it has some flaws and failures. He is an expert on terror movies and sequels, such as Night of the Scarecrow, Pupkinhead 2 wing blood , Puppet master 5 the final chapter , Puppet master 4, Stefather 2 make room for daddy , Leatherface 3 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre , and this Offspring, among others. Rating : 6/10. The film will appeal to horror fans and Vincent Price completists

One of the most richly cherished memories of my gloriously misspent adolescence stems from seeing this right-on horror anthology flick in some scuzzy second-rate shoebox theater with my younger brother. We both quite enjoyed watching it and today it holds a special place in my heart for the simple reason that in our current depressingly restrictive blockbusters only multiplex monopoly this modest indie fright feature would sadly never see the light of a projector; instead it would be directly dumped straight to video and cable TV. And that's everyone's loss, man.

A snoopy reporter (an oddly restrained performance by the usually more manic Susan Tyrell) visits the seedy podunk burg of Oldfield, Tennessee and interviews a kindly librarian (the late, great Vincent Price, who makes the most off his small, yet pivotal role),who informs Tyrell about the town's sordid, depraved, blood-spattered history by relating a quartet of spooky stories. First tale, "Zombie Love Child" - Clu Gulager gives an excellent, gut-busting turn as a clumsy, cloddish, middle-aged milquetoast dweeb who kills a young woman he's been pining for from afar and makes love to her fresh corpse (gross!). A hideously misshapen, murderous mutant zombie baby is the result of this twisted tryst. Second yarn, "The Secret of the Bayou" - A two-bit crook (well played with customary slimy aplomb by Terry Kiser) gets mortally wounded by two hoods he doublecrossed and is brought back from the brink of death by a wise, reclusive ex-slave old black man (a fine, mesmerizing Harry Caeser) who has discovered the secret to immortality. Third opus, "Of Glass and Geeks" - A carnival glass eater falls for a winsome young missus and decides to bag out on the freakshow scene, thus incurring the wrath of the carnival's formidable voodoo priestess owner (juicily hammed to villainous perfection by "The Omega Man" 's Rosalind Cash). Fouth anecdote, "Wrath of the Civil War Orphans" - A ragtag group of brutish, no-count Confederate Civil War soldiers led by a sadistic captain (the ubiquitous Cameron Mitchell in peak scurvy form) seek refuge in a dilapidated mansion inhabited by seemingly harmless, deformed orphan kids.

Very capably directed by Jeff Burr, with a pretty warped and imaginative script by C. Courtney Joyner (who later penned the terrific haunted penitentiary pip "Prison"),nicely disgusting make-up f/x by Rob Burman (said splatter includes such choice nasty stuff as splashy gunshot wounds, gory stabbings, a torso being shredded from the inside out by sharp shards of glass, and, most gruesome of all, a severely burned-up limbless body),a generally serious tone with appropriately perverse touches of pitch-black humor, and nifty cameos from Hammer horror scream queen Martine Beswicke as a convicted murderess who gets executed at the very start of the film, the ever-imposing Lawrence Tierney as the grim-faced warden who presides over Beswicke's execution, and Angelo Rossitto as an antsy carny midget, "The Offspring" rates highly as pleasingly ghastly and ghoulish omnibus horror fun.

Historian Julian White (Vincent Price),whose niece has just been executed, tells a reporter about four tales of grisly murder in the small town of Oldfield, Tennessee.

This film is not as well known as the "Creepshow" films, and it is not as good, either. But it does have Price, and horror favorite Clu Gulager as the memorable necrophiliac Stanley Burnside. And there is even a pretty decent amount of gore and impressive special effects from a film that is not widely praised.

Director Jeff Burr was young and fresh when he made this one, but he caught the attention of the right people. He would be handed many horror franchises, going on to make "Stepfather 2", "Pumpkinhead 2", "Puppetmaster 4" (and 5),"Texax Chainsaw Massacre 3"... and many others. If you want to see his debut, this is the film to see.

Apparently, Vincent Price disliked the movie. In a letter to German actor and puppeteer Gerd J. Pohl, Price wrote: "You're right about 'From a Whisper to a Scream' -- terrible! My agent misrepresented it and I was trapped in it." I think that is a bit harsh. While not as good as some of Price's work, it is far from his worst.

The Civil War story is a bit of a letdown. The backwoods man is also a letdown, at least until the gore effects. The carnival story is average, but again with great effects. The best story is probably the first, with Gulager. As a whole ,the film is just above average, but has the 80s feel to it that gives it a little bump if you like the 80s horror style.

The film could also be improved with a decent DVD recent. I watched the film streaming on Netflix, and it was full frame and with a VHS quality. I assume the DVD is the same. Get a decent transfer, make it widescreen, add Jeff Burr commentary, and this film could enjoy a resurgence of interest, especially if done now while the Vincent Price fandom is hot.