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The House That Dripped Blood (1970)
Country of Origin: UK
Year of Production: 1969
Running Times: 102 mins
Format: Eastmancolor 35mm
Ratio: 1.37:1 (negative ratio) 1.85:1
(intended ratio)
Sound: mono
CREDITS
PRODUCTION
Production Company: Amicus Productions
Executive Producers: Paul Ellisworth, Gordon Westcourt
Producers: Max
Rosenberg, Milton
Subotsky
Production Manager: Teresa Bolland
SCRIPT
Script: Robert Bloch; Russ Jones (Waxworks episode - uncredited)
Story: Sweets to the Sweet by Richard
Matheson
DIRECTION
Director: Peter Duffell
Assistant Director: Peter Beale
PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Robert Parslow
Lab: Eastmancolor, UK
EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: Peter Tanner
MUSIC
Music: Michael Dress
SOUND
Sound Mixer: Ken Ritchie
Re-Recording Mixer: Nolan Roberts
Sound Editor: Michael Redbourn
MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up: Harry Frampton
Hair: Joyce James
Wardrobe Supervisor: Laurel Staffell
DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Art Director: Tony Curtis
Set Decorator: Fred Carter
LOCATIONS
Locations: London, England, UK
CAST
Linking Story
John Bennett (Superintendent Holloway)
John Bryans (A.J. Stoker)
John Malcolm (Sergeant Martin)
Method For Murder
Denholm Elliott (Charles Hillyer)
Joanna Dunham (Alice Hillyer)
Tom Adams (Richard / Dominic)
Robert Lang (Dr Andrews)
Waxworks
Peter Cushing
(Philip Grayson)
Joss Ackland (Neville Rogers)
Wolfe Morris (waxworks proprietor)
Sweets to the Sweet
Christopher Lee (John Reid)
Nyree Dawn Porter (Ann Norton)
Chloe Franks (Jane Reid)
The Cloak
Jon Pertwee (Paul
Henderson)
Ingrid Pitt (Carla Lynde)
Geoffrey Bayldon (Theo von Hartmann)
Other cast members
Richard Coe
Carleton Hobbs
Bernard Hopkins
Joanna Lumley
Jonathan Lynn
Hugh Manning
Winifred Sabine
Roy Evans (hunchback - uncredited)
PLOT SUMMARY
The police are investigating the mysterious disappearance of a famous horror
film actor from his new home. They question the estate agent who rented the
house and learn that it has a strange and macabre history.
CAPSULE REVIEW
One of Amicus' best anthologies, this quartet of chillers from the pen of Robert
Bloch are a satisfyingly diverse mix, with a fantastic cast giving it their
all under the sure direction of first-timer Peter Duffell. The linking story
is effective and for once the individual tales are all exceptionallty good.
AVAILABILITY
USA
Theatrical Distributor: Cinerama
Video Distributor: Prism Pictures
CENSORSHIP HISTORY
Norway
Rating: 15
UK
Rating: X (originally A but upgraded at distributor's request)
USA
Rating: GP (original rating); PG (2002 re-rating - for scary images)
POSTER TAGS
TERROR waits for you in every room in The House That Dripped Blood
From The author of Psycho!
ALTERNATIVE TITLES
La casa che grondava sangue - Italian title
Dom wampirów - Polish title
Huset som drepte - Norwian video title
Huset som droppade blod - Swedish title
La mansión de los crímenes - Spanish title
Totentanz der Vampire - German title
LINKS
SEE ALSO
Dr Terror's House of Horrors (1965)
Scream 2 (1997)
REFERENCES
MAGAZINES
The Dark Side November 1991 p.29
credits, review
Flesh and Blood no.2 p.20
credits, synopsis, review
Scarlet Street no.8 pp.78-79
review
Shivers no.33 pp.4-6
illustrated article
TV Times 16-22 March 1991 pp.23, 63
review, credits
BOOKS
The Illustrated Vampire Movie Guide pp.77-78
credits, review
Hoffman's Guide to SF, Horror and Fantasy Movies 1991
- 1992 p.180
credits, review
Reference Guide to Fantastic Films p.205
credits
KEYWORDS
actors; anthologies; axes; curses; decapitations; film makers; haunted houses;
the occult; police; stalkers; strangulations; the supernatural; vampires; voodoo;
wax figures; wax museums; witchcraft; writers
Last Updated:
1 January, 2009
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