Hot Picks

- Ready for My Close Up 2019

- Talk of the Dead 2016

- Tower Rats 2020

- Script of the Dead 2024

- The Bell Affair 2023

- Easter Bloody Easter 2024

- Velma 2022

- Everwinter Night 2023

- Main Character Energy 2023

- Stupid Games 2024

- Bittertooth 2023

- 4 Minutes of Terror: Night Slasher 2024

- Apart 2024

- The Abandoned 2006

- Becky 2024

- The Evil Fairy Queen 2024

- The Black Guelph 2022

- Followers 2024

- Silence of the Prey 2024

- Battle for the Western Front 2024

- Beware the Boogeyman 2024

- Subject 101 2022

- Driftwood 2023

- The Legend of Lake Hollow 2024

- Black Mass 2023

- Skinwalkers: American Werewolves 2 2023

- The Manifestation 2024

- Spirit Riser 2024

- Garden of Souls 2019

- It's a Wonderful Slice 2024

- Caleb & Sarah 2024

- The Thousand Steps 2020

- The Desiring 2021

- When a Stranger Knocks 2024

- Quint-essentially Irish 2024

- Son of Gacy 2024

- Saltville 2024

- The True Story of the Christ's Return 2024

- Whenever I'm Alone with You 2023

- Jurassic Triangle 2024

- Midnight Peepshow 2022

- Offworld: Alien Planet 2024

- The Swiss Conspiracy 1976

- Sex-Positive 2024

- Here for Blood 2022

- All Over Again 2024

- The Color Yellow 2023

- Des Töchterleins Leid 2024

- I Am a Channel 2024

- The Hermits 2023

- Murdaritaville 2024

- Inheritance 2024

- The Devil's Partner 1960

- First Impressions Can Kill 2017

- A Killer Conversation 2014

- Star Crash 1979

- Strangler of the Swamp 1946

The House that Dripped Blood

UK 1971
produced by
Max J. Rosenberg, Milton Subotsky, Paul Ellsworth (executive), Gordon Wescourt (executive) for Amicus
directed by Peter Duffell
starring Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Jon Pertwee, Denholm Elliott, Ingrid Pitt, John Bennett, John Bryans, John Malcolm, Joanna Dunham, Robert Lang, Tom Adams, Joss Ackland, Wolfe Morris, Chloe Franks, Nyree Dawn Porter, Geoffrey Bayldon
written by Robert Bloch, Russ Jones (segment Waxworks), music by Michael Dress

Amicus omnibus movies

review by
Mike Haberfelner

Available on DVD!

To buy, click on link(s) below and help keep this site afloat (commissions earned)

Always make sure of DVD-compatibility!!!

Inspector Halloway (John Bennett) is less than pleased when he has to look for a filmstar gone missing, thinking it to be just some publicity stunt at his expense, but both the local constale (John Malcolm) and the owner (John Bryans) of the house the filmstar lived in tell him rather spooky stories about past tenants of the house that might lead the investigations towards something more sinister ...

  • First it's the story of writer Charles (Denholm Elliott), who rents the house to be inspired for his horror novel, and soon enough he comes up with al plot about a strangling madman that will make him millions ... or so he thinks. Soon though the madman, Dominic, becomes real (and is played by Tom Adams), appearing to him ever so often. His wife Alice (Joanna Dunham) cannot see a thing though when he claims to spot Dominic again, and soon she persuades Charles to visit a psychiatrist (Robert Lang) ... and it seems high time too, since soon Charles sees Dominic strangling his wife ... but she convinces him it was Charles himself, and there is no Dominic. When Charles soon visits his psychiatrist again though, the psychiatrist is strangled by Dominic, and then ...

    Dominic and Alice turn out to be malicious lovers who want to drive Charles mad to live from his royalties while he's in the loonie bin ... thing is, Elliott is really mad and he has thrown a spanner into the works and strangled Charles as well ... and he has grown rather fond of strangling, so he strangles Alice too ...

  • The next tenant of the house is elderly Philip Grayson (Peter Cushing), who all of his life couldn't come over the loss of his lover, and he's more than a bit surprised to find a figure of her in the local wax museum ... a figure modelled after the wax museum's proprietor's (Wolfe Morris) wife, the man assres Philip, a murderess.

    Days later, Philip's friend Neville comes for a visit, a rival over the affections of Philip's above mentioned lost love, but the 2 reconcile ... until Neville insists on visiting the wax museum as well ... and becomes totally obsessed by the figure ... so much so that he is unable to leave the village despite other plans  But eventually the wax museum's proprietor grows jealous and decapitates Neville ... to the horror of Philip, who days later finds his friend's head having become part of the museum. But the proprietor is still not content and decapitates Philip as well.

    As it turns out the figure in the museum is actually the corpse of the proprietor's wife covered in wax, and he has once killed her in a fit of jealousy ... but her death hasn't kept him from remaining jealousy incarnate ...

  • The next tenant, John Reid (Christopher Lee) has hired a nanny, Ann (Nyree Dawn Porter) for his daughter Jane (Chloe Franks), a lovely young child whom her father hasn't allowed to play with toys or other children, and he seems to be terribly afraid of her. The nanny finds that more than a little disturbing, until she has to realize Jane practices witchcraft, and in the end kills her father by thrwoing his voodoo-doll into the fire.

  • The last tenant was above mentioned moviestar, Henderson (Jon Pertwee), who, relegated to play in cheap horror-movies, does not hesitate to articulate his dismay about the situation, so much so that he refuses to wear a cloak the studio has provided for his role as a vampire, and goes to buy an authentic cloak from antique store owner Hartmann (Geoffrey Bayldon) - so authentic is the cape indeed that it turns Henderson into a vampire when wearing it, and at one instant he bites his co-star in the movie, Carla (Ingrid Pitt). But when he wants to make up to her and invites her to dinner, he has to realize she really is a vampire, wanting to add him to the bloodsuckers' ranks - with success of course.


Back in the here and now ... inspector Halloway naturally believes none of the stories and goes to the house to look for Henderson ... and finds him and Carla in coffins in the basement, both vampires of course, and they bite him to death.

 

Somehow you cannot help but like these Amicus omnibus movies, all collections of short stories, each with a punchline at the end, and the framing story, which seems rather unimportant in the beginning, has its own punchline in the end too (more often than not one of the characters of the framing stories turns out to be Death himself, about to deliver the others to purgatory). and even if in this case the stories have rather little to do with its framing device (the house that dripped blood), so much so that it doesn't even play a significant role in the second story (the one about the wax museum ... which is not the house in question), and the punchlines are either predictable or unsatisfying, the film is still likeable, thanks to great performances of all of the lead actors, a genuine predilection for the macabre, and a sense for good old(-fashioned) horror-atmosphere.

 

Quick Links

Abbott & Costello

The Addams Family

Alice in Wonderland

Arsène Lupin

Batman

Bigfoot

Black Emanuelle

Bomba the Jungle Boy

Bowery Boys

Bulldog Drummond

Captain America

Charlie Chan

Cinderella

Deerslayer

Dick Tracy

Dr. Mabuse

Dr. Orloff

Doctor Who

Dracula

Edgar Wallace made in Germany

Elizabeth Bathory

Emmanuelle

Fantomas

Flash Gordon

Frankenstein

Frankie & Annette Beach Party movies

Freddy Krueger

Fu Manchu

Fuzzy

Gamera

Godzilla

Hercules

El Hombre Lobo

Incredible Hulk

Jack the Ripper

James Bond

Jekyll and Hyde

Jerry Cotton

Jungle Jim

Justine

Kekko Kamen

King Kong

Laurel and Hardy

Lemmy Caution

Lobo

Lone Wolf and Cub

Lupin III

Maciste

Marx Brothers

Miss Marple

Mr. Moto

Mister Wong

Mothra

The Munsters

Nick Carter

OSS 117

Phantom of the Opera

Philip Marlowe

Philo Vance

Quatermass

Robin Hood

The Saint

Santa Claus

El Santo

Schoolgirl Report

The Shadow

Sherlock Holmes

Spider-Man

Star Trek

Sukeban Deka

Superman

Tarzan

Three Mesquiteers

Three Musketeers

Three Stooges

Three Supermen

Winnetou

Wizard of Oz

Wolf Man

Wonder Woman

Yojimbo

Zatoichi

Zorro

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

Feeling lucky?
Want to
search
any of my partnershops yourself
for more, better results?
(commissions earned)

The links below
will take you
just there!!!

Find The House that Dripped Blood
at the amazons ...

USA  amazon.com

Great Britain (a.k.a. the United Kingdom)  amazon.co.uk

Germany (East AND West)  amazon.de

Looking for imports?
Find The House that Dripped Blood here ...

Thailand  eThaiCD.com
Your shop for all things Thai

Something naughty?
(Must be over 18 to go there!)

x-rated  find The House that Dripped Blood at adultvideouniverse.com


Thanks for watching !!!

 

 

In times of uncertainty of a possible zombie outbreak, a woman has to decide between two men - only one of them's one of the undead.

 

There's No Such Thing as Zombies
starring
Luana Ribeira, Rudy Barrow and Rami Hilmi
special appearances by
Debra Lamb and Lynn Lowry

 

directed by
Eddie Bammeke

written by
Michael Haberfelner

produced by
Michael Haberfelner, Luana Ribeira and Eddie Bammeke

 

now streaming at

Amazon

Amazon UK

Vimeo

 

 

 

Robots and rats,
demons and potholes,
cuddly toys and
shopping mall Santas,
love and death and everything in between,
Tales to Chill
Your Bones to

is all of that.

 

Tales to Chill
Your Bones to
-
a collection of short stories and mini-plays
ranging from the horrific to the darkly humourous,
from the post-apocalyptic
to the weirdly romantic,
tales that will give you a chill and maybe a chuckle, all thought up by
the twisted mind of
screenwriter and film reviewer
Michael Haberfelner.

 

Tales to Chill
Your Bones to

the new anthology by
Michael Haberfelner

 

Out now from
Amazon!!!