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Bookmark this pageThe House That Dripped Blood (1970)
Director: Peter Duffell
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From Time Out Film Guide
Third in the Amicus portmanteau horror series, incorporating four stories by Robert Bloch and marking Duffell's highly promising debut as a director. Three of the episodes are rough-and-ready but vigorous Grand Guignol fun, involving Elliott as a novelist confronted by the mad strangler created for his latest yarn; Cushing as a retired stockbroker whose head lands up in the hands of a waxworks Salome, image of his long-lost love; and Pertwee (it should have been Vincent Price) as a veteran star of horror movies who finds himself inexplicably in the grip of a vampiric urge. The fourth is something else again, a marvellous mood piece of chilling intensity about a lonely, angelic child (the remarkable Chloë Franks) who compensates rather nastily - with wax image and pins - for the neglect to which she has been condemned, not without cause, by her widowed father (Lee).Author: TM
Cast & crew
Director: Peter Duffell
Producer: Max J Rosenberg, Milton Subotsky
Cast: Denholm Elliott, Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Jon Pertwee, Joanna Dunham, Joss Ackland, Chloë Franks, Nyree Dawn Porter, Ingrid Pitt, John Bennett full cast
Genre(s): Horror
Duration: 102 mins
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