The House That Dripped Blood
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 The House That Dripped Blood's DVD cover |
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| Directed by | Peter Duffell |
| Produced by | Milton Subotsky Max Rosenberg |
| Starring | Christopher Lee Peter Cushing Nyree Dawn Porter Denholm Elliott and Jon Pertwee |
| Music by | Michael Dress |
| Cinematography | Ray Parslow |
| Editing by | Peter Tanner |
| Distributed by | Amicus Productions |
| Release date(s) | March 1971 (U.S. Release) |
| Running time | 102 min |
| Language | English |
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The House That Dripped Blood is a 1970 British horror film directed by Peter Duffell, distributed by Amicus Productions, and starring Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Nyree Dawn Porter, Denholm Elliott and Jon Pertwee. Also in the cast are Ingrid Pitt, Tom Adams, Joss Ackland, Joanna Dunham, Chloe Franks. The film is a collection of four shorter stories, all linked by the protagonist of each story's association with the eponymous building.
Tagline: TERROR waits for you in every room in The House That Dripped Blood.
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[edit] The Four Stories
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[edit] 'Method For Murder'
- A hack writer (Denholm Elliot) moves into the house with is wife (Joanna Dunham) and is haunted by visions of Dominic (Tom Adams), the murderous, psychopathic central character of his latest novel.
[edit] 'Waxworks'
- Two friends (Peter Cushing and Joss Ackland) become fixated with a macabre waxwork museum that appears to contain a model of a lady they both knew.
[edit] 'Sweets to the Sweet'
- A nanny (Nyree Dawn Porter) is horrified by the way a cold and severe widower (Christopher Lee) treats his young daughter (Chloe Franks), even refusing to allow her to have a doll.
[edit] 'The Cloak'
- A tempermental horror film actor (Jon Pertwee) moves into the house while starring in a vampire film being shot nearby. He buys a black cloak to use as his film character's costume from a peculiar shopkeeper. The cloak seems to instill in its wearer strange powers, something his co-star (Ingrid Pitt) quickly discovers.
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