The House That Dripped Blood (1971) on Netflix
Inspector Holloway of Scotland Yard looks into a country house and the fates of its tenants: a horror novelist, two men and a wax figure, a widower and his daughter, an actor.
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Plot summary
Film star Paul Henderson disappears from an old country house, and Inspector Holloway of Scotland Yard is sent to investigate. Questioning the local police and the estate agent A.J. Stoker, Holloway hears the history of the house and the people who have lived in it. Horror writer Charles Hillyer moves in with his wife Alice and invents Dominic, the strangler of his new novel, then begins to see him. Retired stockbroker Philip Grayson finds a wax museum holding a figure of Salome that resembles a woman he loved, and his friend Neville Rogers comes to stay. Widower John Reid and his daughter Jane take the house, and Ann Norton is hired to tutor the girl. Actor Paul Henderson rents it while playing a vampire and buys a black cloak from Theo von Hartmann.
Cast
- Wolfe Morrisas Waxworks Proprietor (segment "Waxworks")
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- John Bryansas Stoker (segment "Framework Story")
- Ann Barrassas Horror Film Actress (Segment) "The Cloak"
- Richard Coe
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The House That Dripped Blood (1971)
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- Jon Pertwee wrote in his memoir that the film was meant to be a comedy-horror and was shot that way at first, until the producer, in Pertwee's words, went raving mad and insisted on horror. Because footage was already in the can, the tone shift left the film dipping in quality and comedy cut from Pertwee's scenes.
- Director Peter Duffell wanted to call the film Death and the Maiden, as he used Franz Schubert's composition of that name in it, but producer Milton Subotsky insisted on The House That Dripped Blood. Not one drop of blood appears in the finished film.
- Jon Pertwee based his character, the horror actor Paul Henderson, on his co-star and friend Christopher Lee. During filming Lee worked out that Pertwee was imitating an actor, but never realized it was him.
