The House That Dripped Blood (DVD)

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 violence. So I avoid modern films like the Saw series, 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 ...  Read the complete review

The House That Dripped Blood is a 1970 British horror anthology film from the fondly remembered Amicus studio directed by Peter Duffell from stories by Robert Bloch. This one isn't as scary as Tales From the Crypt or quite as much fun as Vault of Horror in my humble opinion but is still well worth watching if you, like me, have a strange weakness for camp seventies British compendium horror films. We get four stories here all set in and around the same spooky Home Counties country house and, as ever with Amicus, there is a framing device spun around the various tales with Inspector Holloway (John Bennett) of Scotland Yard being asked to investigate the mysterious ...  Read the complete review