The House That Dripped Blood
The House That Dripped Blood is a 1971 film from the UK, directed by Peter Duffell, running 102 minutes. reelscum files it under euro-gothic.
- Year
- 1971 · 1970s films
- Country
- UK
- Runtime
- 102 min
- Director
- Peter Duffell
- Updated
- 10 Aug 2026
- Obscurity
- known (31/100)
Defined in the glossary: Euro-gothic
Four Robert Bloch stories, Cushing and Lee on hand, and barely a drop of the title's blood.
Amicus built its name on the horror anthology, and this is one of the tidiest: four Robert Bloch stories wrapped in a Scotland Yard investigation into a missing actor, running through a country house that keeps outliving its tenants. You get Denholm Elliott menaced by his own fictional creation, Peter Cushing at a waxworks, Christopher Lee raising a very strange little girl, and Jon Pertwee sending up the whole business as a horror star who buys a properly cursed vampire cloak, with Ingrid Pitt along for it. The tone stays clipped and civilised, more twist-ending magazine than gore reel, and the title is a flat lie: there is barely a drop in it. Bloch complained about that himself. As a sampler of early-70s British horror doing its most comfortable thing, it is hard to beat.
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