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The House That Bled to Death
William and Emma Peters buy a run-down old house, in which a brutal murder occurred years before, with the intention of restoring it. They move with their daughter Sophie, and become friends with their new neighbours Jean and George Evans. However, eerie events soon occur in the house, including the death of Sophie's pet cat.
Release : | 1980 |
Rating : | 6.6 |
Studio : | Hammer Film Productions, Hammer Films, |
Crew : | Director of Photography, Costume Supervisor, |
Cast : | Nicholas Ball Rachel Davies Brian Croucher Milton Johns |
Genre : | Horror Mystery TV Movie |
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Very well executed
Yo, there's no way for me to review this film without saying, take your *insert ethnicity + "ass" here* to see this film,like now. You have to see it in order to know what you're really messing with.
The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.
Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.
***SPOILERS*** What was obviously inspired by the 1979 movie "The Amityville Horror" the Hammer series episode "The House that Bled" to its credit goes a step farther in explaining what happened in a well placed surprise or twist ending that ties up all the loose as well as bloody ends in the movie together. There's the usual unsuspecting family the Peters who buy their dream house in the country that turns out to be haunted by the previous owners of the place. That's when the husband murdered his wife and chopped her up with a pair of Kurki knives and ended up sentenced to life in an institution for the criminally insane. It's when William Peters, Nicholas Bail, and his wife Emma, Rachel Davis, and their 8 year old daughter Sophia, Emma Ridley, moved in strange things started to happen that ended up driving the family up the wall and out of the house.A first the family cat Timmy was found hacked to death and into pieces as well as someone's severed and bloody hand was found in the fridge. Things reach a crescendo when at a birthday party for Sophia a pipe broke open and flooded the place with blood that drove everyone at the party totally batty. With the news of the house's strange activities making headline it ended up getting the attention of a number of major movie studios to get the rights from the Peter family to make a movie about it who ended up millionaires.***SPOILERS**** Set for life with a new house with a swimming pool and tennis court and no financial problems the Peter's were in for a big surprise at the very end of the movie. It was their daughter Sophia depressed since her pet cat Timmy was found hacked to pieces who found a book, that her parents had hidden, about the house and the family who previously lived in it! Its then that Sophia realized what was really behind all the horrors that happened there: The achievement by her parents of using the house for both Fame & Fortune. And with that she took matters as well as a deadly Kukri knife into her own hand and meted out justice!
The House that Bled to Death is episode five from the 'Hammer House of Horror' TV series. This is one of the more famous instalments as its name seemed familiar to me before even having seen it. It's set in a house where an elderly man gruesomely murdered his wife some time earlier, a young couple and their daughter move in and supernatural events immediately follow. As you can probably assume from this synopsis, this is the entry from the series that took influence from the then very recent blockbuster horror hit The Amityville Horror.Like the others in this series it has on location photography, this was for budget-based reasons but it definitely adds something given the mundane nature of the house makes it more believable. But of course in keeping with others in the series, the events are far from normal. The old rusty machetes used in the historical murder mysteriously show up time after time, the family cat is violently killed and, most memorably of all, a children's birthday party is interrupted when a pipe breaks and sprays all the kids with gallons of blood. All of this is directed pretty well by Francis Megahy, who helmed the previous entry Growing Pains, which was a much inferior episode to this one. And to top things off it has a very effective twist ending which even has a twist of its own. Some people aren't so keen on this ending but I thought it was genuinely good and unexpected. Not only that it can be read as a comment on the real Lutz family whose spurious claims founded the Amityville book and movies. A good episode overall.
Those good old days of Hammer, aah what a time that was. I remember that my dad used to watch it on air on ITV and sometimes if i had the nerve I watched with him. It must have been my first confrontation with the genre I love now. The season they made in 1980 is available for some time but I was a bit afraid to watch it again, not for the scary parts but when you take a trip down memorylane sometimes it's a big letdown. I had that before by watching Magnum and Dukes of Hazard, my god, so slow. Tales of The Unexpected couldn't deliver what it did when it was broadcasted so after 20 years I tried Hammer again. I will watch them in no particular order because it all stands on his own. Know for not being one of the best parts in the 13 episodes it's what I guessed a bit slow but still it delivers. Children are involved and they will confront a blood bath, a real one. Even dismemberment and a sliced cat passes the episode. If you place it in the time it was aired it was a bit gory for the time being. It isn't a Friday the 13th or like those slashers but is nice to watch. It clocks in at 50 minutes and that's really enough. The plot is what I guessed but with almost no effects it works. Hammer not on his best, but still it's Hammer.
William (Nicholas Ball) and Emma Peters (Rachel Davies) buy an old house where a brutal murder happened years ago in very bad condition with the intention of restoring it. They move with their daughter Sophie (Emma RidleY), and become friends of their neighbors Jean (Patricia Maynard) and George Evans (Brian Croucher). However, eerie events happen in the house, inclusive the death of Sophie's cat. In Sophie's birthday party, a pipe leaks blood and they leave the place, disclosing a secret later."The House That Bled to Death" is a scary and one of the best episodes of the series "Hammer House of Horror". The fantastic twist, disclosing a secret, and the tragic conclusion are really excellent. My vote is eight.Title (Brazil): "A Casa Que Sangrou Até Morrer" ("The House That Bled to Death")