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THE HOUSE THAT DRIPPED BLOOD TERROR WAITS for and There Sees a Wax Figure That Has the Face of Someone He Knew THE HOUSE THAT DRIPPED BLOOD TERROR WAITS FOR and there sees a wax figure that has the face of someone he knew. He’s visited by a friend One of the most interesting choices the film- YOU IN EVERY ROOM (Joss Ackland), and the friend goes to the wax makers made was the composer, Michael museum and sees the same wax model – he, Dress. Not a lot is known about Dress. He IN THE HOUSE THAT too, knew the women who is the wax model’s seems to have come from a notable family, the DRIPPED BLOOD! spitting image. They both become obsessed son of Pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s youngest and therein lies the tale. sister. According to an article in The Observer, Beginning in 1965, Amicus Productions re- Pastor Bonhoeffer was, considered a saint – suscitated the dormant portmanteau horror he was executed by the Nazis. Michael Dress film with Dr. Terror’s House of Horrors. They 3 wrote a lot of theatre music, some orchestral followed that with Torture Garden (1967), and The third story is “Sweets to the Sweet.” A jazz pieces (there was a concert of his works in then The House that Dripped Blood (1971). cold and no-nonsense father (Christopher Lee) 1965, hated by the reviewer for The Guardian, Subsequent to that, they made Tales from the and his young daughter (Chloe Franks) are the where the reviewer opined that Dress seemed Crypt (1972), Asylum (1972), Vault of Horror next tenants. He does not want to deal with to have the great jazz arranger Gil Evans in (1973) and From Beyond the Grave (1974). the daughter, so he hires a private teacher mind, but felt that where Evans’ scoring was This series of anthology films proved quite (Nyree Dawn Porter). We eventually discover buoyant, Dress’s seemed “merely flatulent.” popular and they were all very well directed the reason for the father’s coldness and that Dress also scored several notable films, in- and written and featured great casts, such the cute little daughter might not be so cute cluding Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in actors as Ralph Richardson, Donald Suther- after all. the Bronx, which starred a very young Gene land, Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Patrick Wilder, and an interesting sci-fi film, The Mind Magee, Margaret Leighton, and many others. of Mr. Soames, as well as A Touch of Love, 4 starring Sandy Dennis (called Take a Girl The House that Dripped Blood was one of the The fourth and final story is called, “The Like You in the United States). Each of those most entertaining of the series. It had four sto- Cloak.” In it, we have a temperamental hor- scores is very different from the other – Quack- ries and a bookend story. The tales were all ror actor (Jon Pertwee) and his co-star (Ingrid ser has wonderful, melodic themes, A Touch based on short stories by Robert Bloch (Psy- Pitt) moving into the house. He’s starring in a of Love is certainly tonal, and The Mind of Mr. cho), who also wrote the screenplay (Bloch’s low-budget vampire film. He’s not happy with Soames is very out there. But his output was other Amicus pictures are Torture Garden and anything – not the director, not the script, not very small – five feature films in all, and some Asylum). In the director’s chair was Peter Duf- the shoddy-looking sets, and most especially TV and documentary work. fell, who’d only made one feature before The with his vampire cloak, which he feels is cheap. House that Dripped Blood, and that was the He ends up buying a black cloak from a weird For The House that Dripped Blood, Dress cre- low-budget film, Partners in Crime a decade shopkeeper – it’s much more to his liking and ated a wonderfully atmospheric score – some earlier. He did work steadily in TV both before feels it will help him with his character. But the of it lives in the world of Humphrey Searle’s and after The House that Dripped Blood. The cloak is not all it seems and things quickly take The Haunting, but Dress’s music is his own bookend is fun – a Scotland Yard inspector is a sinister turn. and it really gives the stories in the film an investigating the disappearance of a film star. interesting texture and feel. There’s a lot of He contacts the local police station and is told It’s all a good deal of fun, and Bloch’s writing percussion and weird effects, organ, a solo the house’s history, and the real estate agent can be very wry at times. It’s well filmed and female voice floating in the air, harpsichord, for the house also tells the inspector about its the sets are very good, considering how low vibes, strings – it’s all very hallucinogenic and previous renters. Those scenes lead us into the budget was on the film. It was picked up off-kilter. It’s a shame he didn’t do more films. and out of all four stories. for distribution by Cinerama Releasing Corpo- ration. The film received some decent reviews: This is the premiere release of The House that Kevin Thomas in the Los Angeles Times said, Dripped Blood. The transfers were made from 1 “Richly atmospheric settings, muted color pho- the 35mm magnetic music-only mixing ele- The first story, “Method for Murder,” A writer tography, an outstanding cast and competent ments and the mono sound is crisp and clear of horror stories (Denholm Elliott) rents the direction (by Peter Duffell) do justice to Bloch’s and really excellent. house with his wife. He is haunted by visions fine script, which deals with psychological ter- of Dominick, the psychopath lead character of ror rather than relying on the typical blood-and- — Bruce Kimmel his new novel. guts formula,” while Variety called it “one of the most entertaining of its genre to come along in several years and should prove strong opposi- 2 tion to the general monopoly of that market by The second story is “Waxworks,” in which a re- Hammer Films… even for filmgoers who don’t tired stockbroker (Peter Cushing) moves into usually follow the shocker market, this one is the house. One day he visits a horror museum worthwhile.” .
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