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* ActorAllusion: Paul Henderson (Creator/JonPertwee) is describing the old horror films he loves, and mentions Dracula, but quickly adds "the one with Creator/BelaLugosi of course, not this new fellow". The new fellow he is referring to is Creator/ChristopherLee, who also stars in the film.
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* AdamWesting: Creator/IngridPitt plays an actress who plays vampires and then turns out to be one for real.
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* BecomingTheCostume: In "The Cloak", actor Henderson purchases a vampire's cloak to add verisimilitude to role as a vampire, only to discover he transforms into a vampire whenever he don the cloak.
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* LostInCharacter: In "Method for Murder", [[spoiler:Richard, the failed actor that Alice uses to play Dominick, the strangler from her husband Charles' book, in order to [[{{Gaslighting}} drive him insane]], becomes so immersed in the role that he actually believes he is Dominick and murders the psychiatrist, Charles, and finally Alice]].
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* LostInCharacter: In "Method for Murder", [[spoiler:Richard, the failed actor that Alice uses to play Dominick, the strangler from her husband Charles' book, in order to [[{{Gaslighting}} drive him insane]], insane]] becomes so immersed in the role that he actually believes he is Dominick and murders the psychiatrist, Charles, and finally Alice]].
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* SapientHouse: While it is never implied that is actually intelligent, the real estate agent Stoker says that the house reacts to personalities of those who live there, and that the fates that befell the previous tenants were therefore of their own creating, and that they somehow deserved what happened to them.
* SmokingIsGlamorous: Most of the smoking in film is very mundane, but Carla, the exotic foreign movie star in "The Cloak", smokes cigarettes in a long holder and looks very sexy while doing so.
* SmokingIsGlamorous: Most of the smoking in film is very mundane, but Carla, the exotic foreign movie star in "The Cloak", smokes cigarettes in a long holder and looks very sexy while doing so.
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* SapientHouse: While it is never implied that is it's actually intelligent, the real estate agent Stoker says that the house reacts to the personalities of those who live there, and that the fates that befell the previous tenants were therefore of their own creating, creating and that they somehow deserved what happened to them.
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* SmokingIsGlamorous: Most of the smoking in the film is very mundane, but Carla, the exotic foreign movie star in "The Cloak", smokes cigarettes in a long holder and looks very sexy while doing so.
* SmokingIsGlamorous: Most of the smoking in the film is very mundane, but Carla, the exotic foreign movie star in "The Cloak", smokes cigarettes in a long holder and looks very sexy while doing so.
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* WaxMuseumMorgue: In "Waxworks", the proprietor of the museum created his figure of Salome by embalming his executed wife in wax. He later [[spoiler:used the decapitated heads of Rogers and Philip as heads of John the Baptist in the display]].
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* WaxMuseumMorgue: In "Waxworks", the proprietor of the museum created his figure of Salome by embalming his executed wife in wax. He later [[spoiler:used [[spoiler:uses the decapitated heads of Rogers and Philip as heads of John the Baptist in the display]].
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* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: At the start of "Sweets for the Sweet", Jane Reid is afraid of fire. It later appears that he father John deliberately instilled this fear in her.
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* WouldHarmAChild[=/=]WouldHitAGirl: In "Sweets for the Sweet", John slaps his daughter across the face while her teacher stands by; shocked, but doing nothing. (This is possibly a case of ValuesDissonance as it might have been seen at the time as a parent disciplining his child.)
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* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: At the start of "Sweets for the Sweet", Jane Reid is afraid of fire. It later appears that he her father John deliberately instilled this fear in her.
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* BecomingTheCostume: In "The Cloak", actor Henderson purchases a vampire's cloak to add verisimilitude to role as a vampire, only to discover he transforms into a vampire whenever he don the cloak.
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* NeverTrustATitle: While the title may make sense figuratively--in that the house is responsible for a number of deaths, if Stoker is to believed--no actual blood appears in the film (which is odd for a film involving vampires).
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* NeverTrustATitle: While the title may make sense figuratively--in that the house is responsible for a number of deaths, if Stoker is to be believed--no actual blood appears in the film (which is odd for a film involving vampires).
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* WhenTheClockStrikesTwelve: In "The Cloak", the most dramatic changes to Paul happen when he dons the cloak just as the clock is striking midnight.
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* MirrorMonster: In "Method for Murder", a shaken Charles is lighting a cigarette on by the fireplace when he glance sin the mirror and sees Dominick standing on the landing behind him. But when he turns around, there is no one there.
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* MirrorMonster: In "Method for Murder", a shaken Charles is lighting a cigarette on by the fireplace when he glance sin glances in the mirror and sees Dominick standing on the landing behind him. But when he turns around, there is no one there.
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* ItWasHereIswear: In "Method for Murder", all of Charles' attempts to convince Alice that Dominick is real and in the house end with him showing her an apparently empty room and her thinking he is cracking up.
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* ItWasHereIswear: ItWasHereISwear: In "Method for Murder", all of Charles' attempts to convince Alice that Dominick is real and in the house end with him showing her an apparently empty room and her thinking he is cracking up.
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* NeverTrustATitle: While the title may make sense figuratively--in that the house is responsible for a number of deaths, if Stoker is to believed--no actual blood appears in the film (which is odd for a film involving vampires).
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* ItWasHereIswear: In "Method for Murder", all of Charles' attempts to convince Alice that Dominick is real and in the house end with him showing her an apparently empty room and her thinking he is cracking up.
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* DisturbingUnchildlikeBehavior: In "Sweets for the Sweet", Jane has a most unchildlike interest in witchcraft; reading some very adult texts on the subject.
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* ClothesMakeTheManiac: In "The Cloak", whenever Paul Henderson don the eponymous cloak, he turns into a vampire.
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* ClassicalMovieVampire: This is what Paul Henderson transforms into (minus the east European accent) whenever he dons the eponymous cloak in "The Cloak"; very appropriate given he is an actor who specialises in playing vampires.
* ClothesMakeTheManiac: In "The Cloak", whenever Paul Hendersondon dons the eponymous cloak, he turns into a vampire.vampire.
* DisturbingUnchildlikeBehaviour: In "Sweets for the Sweet", Jane has a most unchildlike interest in witchcraft; reading some very adult texts on the subject.
* ClothesMakeTheManiac: In "The Cloak", whenever Paul Henderson
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* SmokingIsGlamorous: Most of the smoking in film is very mundane, but Carla, the exotic foreign movie star in "The Cloak", smokes cigarettes in a long holder and looks very sexy while doing so.
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* HighClassGlass: In "The Cloak", flamboyant movie actor Paul Henderson uses a monocle when reading. While undoubtedly an affectation, it appears he really does need the corrective lens as he is never seen reading without it.
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* WouldHarmAChild: In "Sweets for the Sweet", John slaps his daughter across the face while her teacher stands by; shocked, but doing nothing. (This is possibly a case of ValuesDissonance as it might have been seen at the time as a parent disciplining his child.)
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* WouldHarmAChild: WouldHarmAChild[=/=]WouldHitAGirl: In "Sweets for the Sweet", John slaps his daughter across the face while her teacher stands by; shocked, but doing nothing. (This is possibly a case of ValuesDissonance as it might have been seen at the time as a parent disciplining his child.)
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* LostInRole: LostInCharacter: In "Method for Murder", [[spoiler:Richard, the failed actor that Alice uses to play Dominick, the strangler from her husband Charles' book, in order to [[{{Gaslighting}} drive him insane]], becomes so immersed in the role that he actually believes he is Dominick and murders the psychiatrist, Charles, and finally Alice]].
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* LostInTheRole: LostInRole: In "Method for Murder", [[spoiler:Richard, the failed actor that Alice uses to play Dominick, the strangler from her husband Charles' book, in order to [[{{Gaslighting}} drive him insane]], becomes so immersed in the role that he actually believes he is Dominick and murders the psychiatrist, Charles, and finally Alice]].
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* SapientHouse: While it is never implied that is actually intelligent, the real estate agent Stoker says that the house reacts to personalities of those who live there, and that the fates that befell the previous tenants were therefore of their own creating, and that they somehow deserved what happened to them.
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[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/the_house_that_dripped_blood.jpg]]
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* AppleOfDiscord: In "Waxworks", the wax figure of Salome causes all men to see it as the woman they most desire. This causes problems as Philip and Rogers had both been in love with the same woman, and both see it as her.
* AnAxeToGrind: In "Waxworks", the proprietor grabs a real executioner's axe from one of the displays in the museum and attempts to kill Philip with it. [[spoiler:He succeeds.]]
* AnAxeToGrind: In "Waxworks", the proprietor grabs a real executioner's axe from one of the displays in the museum and attempts to kill Philip with it. [[spoiler:He succeeds.]]
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* FantasyForbiddingFather: In "Sweets for the Sweet", John forbids his daughter from any contact with other children, or even to have any toys. As it turns out, he does have some solid reasons for his incredibly strict parenting but, by the time these come out, it is far too late for all involved.
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* {{Gaslighting}}: In "Method for Murders", Charles' sightings of Dominick turn out to be [[spoiler:part of a plan by his wife Alice to have him declared insane so she can run off with her lover]].
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* {{Gaslighting}}: In "Method for Murders", Murder", Charles' sightings of Dominick turn out to be [[spoiler:part of a plan by his wife Alice to have him declared insane so she can run off with her lover]].
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* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: At the start of "Sweets for the Sweet", Jane Reid is afraid of fire. It later appears that he father John deliberately instilled this fear in her.
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* VoodooDoll: The European 'poppet' version is used in "Sweets for the Sweet", with Jane fashioning an effigy of her father out wax and imbuing it with hairs stolen from his razor. She causes him heart pains by stabbing it with a needle [[spoiler:and later tosses it on to the father]].
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!!Tropes used in ''The House That DrippedBlood'' Dripped Blood'' include:
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''The House That Dripped Blood'' is a 1971 British horror AnthologyFilm directed by Peter Duffell and distributed by Creator/AmicusProductions. It stars Creator/ChristopherLee, Creator/PeterCushing, Nyree Dawn Porter, Denholm Elliott, and Creator/JonPertwee. The film is a collection of four short stories, all originally written and subsequently scripted by Creator/RobertBloch, linked by the protagonist of each story's association with the eponymous building.
A Scotland Yard investigator looks into four mysterious cases involving an unoccupied house and its tragic previous tenants
# "Method for Murder": A hack novelist encounters a strangler who's the villain of his books, leading his wife to question his sanity.
# "Waxworks": Two men are obsessed with a wax figure of a woman from their past.
# "Sweets for the Sweet": A little girl with a stern, widowed father displays an interest in witchcraft.
# "The Cloak": An arrogant horror film actor purchases a black cloak which gives him a vampire's powers.
!!Tropes used in ''The House That DrippedBlood'' include:
* ClothesMakeTheManiac: In "The Cloak", whenever Paul Henderson don the eponymous cloak, he turns into a vampire.
* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: At the end of the film, the real estate agent Stoker looks into the camera and asks if you would consider yourself a suitable tenant for the house.
* {{Gaslighting}}: In "Method for Murders", Charles' sightings of Dominick turn out to be [[spoiler:part of a plan by his wife Alice to have him declared insane so she can run off with her lover]].
* PrettyInMink: Carla wears a mink stole while casually lounging around Paul's sitting room in "The Cloak".
* VoodooDoll: The European 'poppet' version is used in "Sweets for the Sweet", with Jane fashioning an effigy of her father out wax and imbuing it with hairs stolen from his razor. She causes him heart pains by stabbing it with a needle [[spoiler:and later tosses it on to the father]].
* WaxMuseumMorgue: In "Waxworks", the proprietor of the museum created his figure of Salome by embalming his executed wife in wax. He later [[spoiler:used the decapitated heads of Rogers and Philip as heads of John the Baptist in the display]].
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A Scotland Yard investigator looks into four mysterious cases involving an unoccupied house and its tragic previous tenants
# "Method for Murder": A hack novelist encounters a strangler who's the villain of his books, leading his wife to question his sanity.
# "Waxworks": Two men are obsessed with a wax figure of a woman from their past.
# "Sweets for the Sweet": A little girl with a stern, widowed father displays an interest in witchcraft.
# "The Cloak": An arrogant horror film actor purchases a black cloak which gives him a vampire's powers.
!!Tropes used in ''The House That DrippedBlood'' include:
* ClothesMakeTheManiac: In "The Cloak", whenever Paul Henderson don the eponymous cloak, he turns into a vampire.
* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: At the end of the film, the real estate agent Stoker looks into the camera and asks if you would consider yourself a suitable tenant for the house.
* {{Gaslighting}}: In "Method for Murders", Charles' sightings of Dominick turn out to be [[spoiler:part of a plan by his wife Alice to have him declared insane so she can run off with her lover]].
* PrettyInMink: Carla wears a mink stole while casually lounging around Paul's sitting room in "The Cloak".
* VoodooDoll: The European 'poppet' version is used in "Sweets for the Sweet", with Jane fashioning an effigy of her father out wax and imbuing it with hairs stolen from his razor. She causes him heart pains by stabbing it with a needle [[spoiler:and later tosses it on to the father]].
* WaxMuseumMorgue: In "Waxworks", the proprietor of the museum created his figure of Salome by embalming his executed wife in wax. He later [[spoiler:used the decapitated heads of Rogers and Philip as heads of John the Baptist in the display]].
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