The House That Dripped Blood
Year: 1970
Director: Peter Duffell
Written by: Robert Bloch
Threat: Psychopath/Witch/Vampire
Weapon of Choice: Hands/Axe/Witchcraft/Teeth
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Rish's Reviews
I saw this on a double bill with Scream
and Scream Again, and it made for a very enjoyable afternoon. Tyranist
often mentions that he dislikes anthology films and I love them, and this would probably
be no exception.
Psycho author Robert Bloch brings us four stories centering around the same
creepy house: The Cloak, Sweets For the Sweet, Waxworks, Method for Murder, as
well as a wraparound story of an investigator from Scotland Yard learning the history
of the now-empty house.
Expertly directed and well-written, the only complaints I have about this story are that
it was rather illogical and a little long. Oh, but it was a lot of fun. It had quite a famous
cast too, including Peter Cushing, Denholm Elliott, Jon Pertwee, Ingrid Pitt, Joss Ackland,
and Christopher Lee.
It has been so long since I saw this film that I have very little to say in this review (pretty
much all my notes say is "Good movie"). The little girl in "Sweets For the Sweet" was
unbelievably beautiful. I'd be curious to see what she grew up to be.
I'd Recommend It To: I really enjoy these early Seventies horror anthologies. If you do too,
then be sure to seek this one out.
Posted: February 17, 2005
Total Skulls: 12
| Sequel | ||
| Sequel setup | ||
| Rips off earlier film | ||
| Horror film showing on TV/in theater in movie | ||
| Future celebrity appears | ||
| Former celebrity appears | ||
| Bad title | ||
| Bad premise | ||
| Bad acting | ||
| Bad dialogue | ||
| Bad execution | ||
| MTV Editing | ||
| OTS | ||
| Girl unnecessarily gets naked | ||
| Wanton sex | ||
| Death associated with sex | ||
| Unfulfilled promise of nudity | ||
| Characters forget about threat | ||
| Secluded location | ||
| Power is cut |  |
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| Phone lines are cut | ||
| Someone investigates a strange noise | |
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| Someone runs up stairs instead of going out front door | |
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| Camera is the killer | ||
| Victims cower in front of a window/door | ||
| Victim locks self in with killer | ||
| Victim running from killer inexplicably falls | ||
| Toilet stall scene | ||
| Shower/bath scene | ||
| Car stalls or won't start | ||
| Cat jumps out | ||
| Fake scare | ||
| Laughable scare | ||
| Stupid discovery of corpse | ||
| Dream sequence | |
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| Hallucination/Vision | |
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| No one believes only witness | |
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| Crazy, drunk, old man knows the truth | ||
| Warning goes unheeded | |
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| Music detracts from scene | ||
| Death in first five minutes | ||
| x years before/later | ||
| Flashback sequence | |
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| Dark and stormy night | |
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| Killer doesn't stay dead | ||
| Killer wears a mask | ||
| Killer is in closet | ||
| Killer is in car with victim | ||
| Villain is more sympathetic than heroes | ||
| Unscary villain/monster | ||
| Beheading | |
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| Blood fountain | ||
| Blood spatters - camera, wall, etc. | ||
| Poor death effect | ||
| Excessive gore | ||
| No one dies at all | ||
| Virgin survives | ||
| Geek/Nerd survives | ||
| Little kid lamely survives | ||
| Dog/Pet miraculously survives | ||
| Unresolved subplots | ||
| "It was all a dream" ending | ||
| Unbelievably happy ending | ||
| Unbelievably crappy ending | ||
| What the hell? |