History Film / TheHouseThatDrippedBlood

* NevrHadToys: In "Sweets for the Sweet", John is a FantasyForbiddingFather who forbids his daughter from any contact with other children, or even to have any toys.

** [[spoiler:Alice]] in "Method for Murder" gets little sympathy when [[spoiler:she gets strangled to death by her lover, who now believes himself to be Dominick.]]

* AbsoluteCleavage: Carla in "The Cloak."

** Subverted by [[spoiler:Henderson]], who turns out to be a JerkWithAHeartOfGold under serving of his fate.

* EnfantTerrible: [[spoiler: Jane Reid in "Sweets for the Sweet."]]

* {{Jerkass}}:
** Inspector Holloway from the FramingDevice is an arrogant dick who views everyone he meets as beneath him for being from a small town and insults people who are genuinely trying to help.
** Paul Henderson.

* PrimaDonna: Paul Henderson. The first day he’s on set, he throws a tantrum over the set of the castle not being “real enough”, and proceeds to smash it with his cane to prove a point.

# "Waxworks": Two men (Creator/PeterCushing and Joss Ackland) m are obsessed with a wax figure of a woman from their past.

* {{Jerkass}}: Inspector Holloway and Paul Henderson.

# "Method for Murder": A hack novelist (Creator/DenholmElliot) encounters a strangler (Tom Adams) who's the villain of his books, leading his wife to question his sanity.

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.

''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, Chloe Franks, Creator/DenholmElliott, 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.

--->'''Vampires! Voodoo! Vixens! Victims!'''

''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, Chloe Franks, 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.

* GoneHorriblyRight: In "Sweets to the Sweet," the tutor's success at freeing Jane from her phobia of fire [[allows Jane to start teaching herself witchcraft.]]

''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.

* MirrorMonster: In "Method for Murder", a shaken Charles is lighting a cigarette on by the fireplace when he glances in the mirror and sees Dominick standing on the landing behind him. But when he turns around, there is no one there.

* 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.