Cathardincu Surprisingly incoherent and boring

Plustown A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in of surprise. this film is not one of those films.

Janae Milner Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

Ortiz Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

julian kennedy The House That Dripped Blood: An Amicus anthology consisting of four scary stories from Robert Bloch wrapped around a police and well a realtor investigation into the titular house.Episode one "Method For Murder". A horror writers creation comes to life and attacks him during a bout of writer's block. I may be mistaken but I am pretty sure that the House That Dripped Blood appears in the Stephen King non-fiction horror treatise Danse Macabre under the chapter "Where I Get all My Ideas". This is a decent entry marred only by the old fifties chestnut of the dull Freudian psychiatrist and a really bad make-up job on Tom Adams looking like a silent movie antagonist.Episode two: "Waxworks" A gay stockbroker "Peter Cushing" retired from the city rents the titular house to enjoy some gardening and classical music. An old friend "Joss Ackland" stops by unexpectedly and a tension from their shared past rises up consuming them both.I understand that this is a horror anthology made on the cheap but the character development in this episode is simply non-existent. Apparently, we are lead to believe that both men are obsessed with the same woman from many years ago. Since they refuse to talk about it themselves we are meant to fill in the blanks. When a local waxworks in town has a wax statue of the same woman both men become obsessed unable to leave town.The episode simply fails to give enough information for us to care for the fates of our two leads. Add in lighting from the Batman TV Series, hammy acting from the Waxworks proprietor, very poor props and an ever increasingly ridiculous display of ascots on both our lead characters and any tension is out the window.Episode three: "Sweets to the Sweet" Probably the most solid of the four outings it has great acting from Christopher Lee and Chloe Franks as his daughter. A straightforward telling of a man who has a "special child" and a nanny/teacher to look after her. A little slow and certainly an often told tale but competently done.Episode Four: "The Cloak" Of the four episodes The cloak tells the most interesting of tales. A hammy horror actor (Dr. Who's own Jon Pertwee) buys a vampire cloak that turns him into a real vampire while worn. This episode is played for laughs with the always enjoyable Ingrid Pitt matching the hammy acting with her loose knowledge of English and her tight cleavage. Completely out of tone with the rest of the film it actually deserves its own feature.The Wraparound: An While it is only there to tie the four stories together it simply doesn't do the job. If this was outtakes of a short called "How to Rent Real Estate" featured on an MST3K shorts collection I would not have been surprised. Really drains the fun out of a film that needed no help.In Conclusion: At no point does the house drip blood. In fact, at no point does anything or anyone drip blood. This is clearly a film meant for the wee ones. A good your first horror film for the grade school crowd. For one thing, they might actually be surprised by the twists in the stories. For adults, the slow pace, predictable stories and the lack of wardrobe malfunction on Miss Pitt make this a pleasant time waster down memory lane but also an easy .

alexanderdavies-99382 "The House That Dripped Blood" is one of the defining Amicus horror films.In spite of its rather trashy title, there isn't a single drop of blood to be seen anywhere in the films 97 minutes.This film works in the way it is directed and photographed. As the director Peter Duffell explained in an interview, the budget was very tight and also the filming schedule. As a result, the director aimed to shoot the sets in the house in various ways and angles so as to allow for variety.From the opening credits where the camera is roaming around the house, I got a strong sense of imagining someone having once lived there and also there being incidents involving the paranormal.Each story offers something different and they are all excellent. The framework story and epilogue are also very well done and the latter is decidedly creepy!

Prichards12345 This is the Amicus one where the cast aren't all dead at the end after telling their stories! And Robert Bloch's neat script is as solid a work as you can get in an anthology film. All the 4 stories and the linking device are good, and 3 of them are simply terrific. They are all set around the house of the title.The first story, with ever Dependable Denholm Elliot haunted by a killer of his own creation while writing a new horror novel, is simply brilliant, although it's yet another Diaboliques-style rip off. The second tale, with Peter Cushing and Joss Ackland displaying an alarming taste in neckties, is a pretty good tale of a retired stockbroker becoming obsessed with a "Museum of Horror" It's still the weakest of the 4, though.Tale 3, with Christopher Lee as a business man terrified of his young daughter is a tour-de-force, and one of Amicus' finest hours. This superb vignette builds gradually and offers the rare sight of Lee scared out of his wits; and there's a wonderful performance from child actor Chloe Franks to hammer the story home.And finally we come to a delightful comedy tale with John Pertwee as a cheesed off horror star not a million miles from Christopher Lee himself (it's rumoured this part was originally offered to Lee but he turned it down). The scene between Pertwee and Geoffrey Bayldon (Doctor Who meets Catweazle no less) is an absolute barnstormer, with Bayldon in Ernest Thesiger make-up as a shop proprietor who sells Pertwee a cloak that turns him into a real vampire! Full of amusing moments and horror-in jokes, the whole shebang is a terrific way to close out.Perhaps bettered only by From Beyond The Grave, this is one of the best films Amicus turned out.

oscar-35 *Spoiler/plot- The House that Dripped Blood, 1971, Shortly after renting an old English country, a horror film star disappears and a Scotland Yard inspector arrives to investigate. Inquiring at the local police station, the inspector learns the house's history of multiple odd occurrences.*Special Stars- Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Denholm Elliott, Jon Pertwee *Theme- Old houses in England have a long history, possibly ghosts, and influences beyond the grave.*Trivia/location/goofs- British, Many short stories anthology revolving around this house's various occupants. Watch for Chris Lee's character "Dracula" tableau in the Waxworks segment with P. Cushing ing it several times. Christopher Lee is seen reading a book in his new rented home's study, 'Lord Of the Rings'. In 40 years, Lee would star in that film based book. Jon Petwee was still performing in the English science fiction series Doctor Who during this film's shooting. If you look closely in his dressing room mirror, there is a Dr. Who production photo of Pertwee in his Dr. Who car, 'Bessie'. The American actor, Vincent Price was asked to perform a major role in the waxworks scene. Price gained USA notoriety playing in the 3-D film, "The House of Wax' with an early film role for Charlse Bronson.*Emotion- An enjoyable series of stories putting England's best horror actors through their paces, but my most enjoyable one was a comedic tale with Jon Pertwee in it as a cowardly reluctant vampire. Having met him at several sci-fi fiction events and getting a taste of his personality, I wish I was on-set for this to be shot. It must have been a hoot.