Advantages: Great cast, entertaining, mix of genres Disadvantages: Not to everyone's taste
The House That Dripped Blood is a camp horror film, which lasts 97 mins and is rated a 12. I bought it from Amazon UK for just £3.98, which I felt was a great price. I have recently got into watching horror – but only the old, classic era ones from the 1970s or earlier, definitely not the modern gore-fests. To me, I like a good cast, traditional horror elements and a fair bit of suspense. I am not interested in huge amounts of blood and on-screen ... ...instead loving the old Vincent Price films and the like.
I first heard of The House That Dripped Blood after reading a review of it on Dooyoo by Jake Speed and it sounded just my kind of thing. I was not disappointed.
Despite its horrific cover, the film itself is not nearly so frightening. Filmed at Shepperton Studios, it has a stellar mainly-British cast (Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Jon Pertwee, Ingrid Pitt, Denholm Elliot, Joss Ackland, ...
KarenUK 05.12.2009
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Advantages: Competent production Disadvantages: Dull, predictable, shoddy script
Hammer's arch rivals Amicus hit the compendium trail again with this Robert Bloch penned 1970 outing. Filmed in 1969 under the guiding hand of Peter Duffell (Jewel in the Crown), Amicus found backing for the project from US giants Columbia.
Columbia Studios demanded the inclusion of horror hot property in the form of Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee. The pressure was on producers MIlton Subotsky and Max J Rosenberg to secure the signatures of the ... ...he liked in the admittedly lacklustre screenplay.
Around Lee and Cushing, Duffell and the producers assembled an accomplished cast featuring Denholm Elliot, Joss Ackland, Ingrid Pitt, Nyree Dawn Porter, Jon Pertwee and Geoffrey Bayldon.
Duffell announced from the start that he wanted to give the finished production a real polish, and lift it up from the routine horrors doing the rounds. It's difficult to see this ambition in effect, and 'The House ...
dadmancat 22.07.2004
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Production Year: 1998 - Horror - Director: Steve Miner - Original Language: English - Classification: 18 years and over - Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, Michelle Williams, Adam Arkin, Adam Hann-Byrd, Janet Leigh, L.L. Cool J.
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