Hammer House of Horror: The House That Bled to Death (1980)

Country of Origin: UK
Date(s) of Broadcast: 11th October 1980
Running Times: 50 mins
Format: colour
Sound:

PRODUCTION
Production Companies: A Jack Gill Presentation for Chips Productions Ltd / Cinema Arts International / Hammer Films for ITC Films International
Executive Producers: Brian Lawrence, David Reid
Producer: Roy Skeggs
Production Manager: Ron Jackson

SCRIPT
Script: David Lloyd
Story Editor: Anthony Read

DIRECTION
Director: Tom Clegg

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Norman Warwick

MUSIC
Music: James Bernard
Music Supervisor: Philip Martell

SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects: Ian Scoones

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Designer: Carolyn Scott

LOCATIONS
Locations: Hampden House, Great Hampden, England, UK; 42 Chairborough Road, High Wycombe, England, UK

CAST
Nicholas Ball (William)
Rachel Davies (Emma)
Brian Croucher (George)
Pat Maynard (Jean)
Milton Johns (A.J. Powers)
Emma Ridley (Sophie)
Joanna White (older Sophie)
George Tovey (old man)
Una Brandon-Jones (old woman)
Jo Warne (1st mother)
Sarah Keller (2nd mother)
Max Mason, Anna Perry (journalists)
Marilyn Finlay (sister)

PLOT SUMMARY

At 42 Colman Road, Albert Clemens poisons his wife and dismembers her. Some time later, the house is bought by the Peters family and are almost immediately beset by strange happenings - doors and windows slam, Emma is nearly killed by a gas fire that can't switch off, Sophie's bedroom walls start to bleed and the family cat is killed in a horrific accident. Soon, Clemens' belongings start to turn up in the house...

UK
Television Distributor: ITV

UK
Rating: 15

1980
October
11: UK - television broadcast (on ITV)

KEYWORDS

haunted houses; children; ghosts