Claudio Carvalho When the Scotland Yard Detective Inspector Holloway (John Bennett) comes to a precinct to assume the investigation of the disappearance of the horror film actor Paul Henderson (Jon Pertwee), the local officer tells stories about dwellers of the old house rented by Henderson. Segment 1 "Method for Murder" - The horror story writer Charles Hillyer (Denholm Elliott) moves to the house with his wife to write a novel. He creates a strangler serial-killer and soon he sees the man everywhere in the house. Is Charles becoming insane? Segment 2 "Waxworks" - the retired and lonely bachelor Philip Grayson (Peter Cushing) moves to the house and visits the Wax Museum of Horror in the nearby town. He finds a wax statue of a woman identical to the one he loved, and the owner informs that she is his wife that died some time ago. When his friend and former love rival visits him, he goes to the wax museum and is not capable to leave town impressed with the woman. Philiptries to help his friend with tragic consequences. Segment 3 "Sweets to the Sweet" - the wealthy John Reid (Christopher Lee) hires a teacher to give private education to his lonely daughter that has no friends and no toys. When candles disappear from the store, John has a heart pain during the night and discloses the secret of his wife and daughter to her skeptical teacher. Segment 4 "The Cloak" - the arrogant Paul Henderson seeks an authentic vampire cloak to use in the film he is working and he finds a weird fantasy shop and soon he finds that he becomes a real vampire when he wears the cloak. The skeptical Holloway decides to go to the house during the night and leans the fate of Henderson in a tragic way"The House That Dripped Blood" is an anthology from horror studio Amicus with the lead story and four segments, all of them engaging and entertaining. Fans of horror films from Amicus and Hammer will certainly not be disappointed with the segments and the conclusion. My vote is eight.Title (Brazil): "A Casa que Pingava Sangue" ("The House That Dripped Blood")

moonspinner55 Four stories (plus a linking prologue and epilogue) centering around an eerie estate in the English countryside that reflects the personalities of its tenants. "Is it haunted?" one potential renter asks. "Not exactly." Denholm Elliott plays a mystery writer whose latest creation, a mad strangler, haunts him at night; Peter Cushing, mourning the demise of his one great love, finds her replica in a waxworks museum in town; Christopher Lee is afraid of his own daughter, an angelic-seeming child with an interest in witchcraft; and Jon Pertwee is a ham actor of vampire films who becomes a real bloodsucker whenever he wears a vintage cloak. With a screenplay by "Psycho" author Robert Bloch (and an uncredited Russ Jones reportedly penning the second episode), the tales are imaginative and entertaining, although not particularly frightening--and not at all bloody. Two vampires rising from their coffins at midnight is about as scary as it gets. TV's "The Twilight Zone" did this kind of thing much better--these chapters are more on the level of "Night Gallery". Fine performances nevertheless, some twists and turns, and a solid direction by Peter Duffell, who doesn't rush things through and shows a sense of humor as well. **1/2 from ****

Rainey Dawn This is a fun classic horror film... 4 creepy stories about the occupants of the house. Worth watching for fans of classic horror.Segment 1 "Method for Murder" - A writer rents the house as inspiration for his new horror book. He invents his main murderous character but things become all to real.Segment 2 "Waxworks" - A man named Philip Grayson (Peter Cushing) rents the house. An old friend comes to visit and the two men become obsessed with a beautiful wax figure that reminds them all to much of the woman they were fighting over years before.Segment 3 "Sweets to the Sweet" - John Reid (Christopher Lee) and his daughter rent the home. Reid seems overly protective of his daughter who is secretly involved in witchcraft.Segment 4 "The Clock" - A film actor rents the house and obtains a cloak that gives him the powers of a vampire.The first 3 segments are good - creepy. The last segment (The Cloak) was on the humorous side to me. All 4 segments are good - I enjoyed the movie.Strange, I really thought I have seen this film before - but after watching it I think I was mixing up the title of this film with another movie.... :D 8/10

Goingbegging If you enjoyed Hitchcock's 'Psycho', without necessarily understanding the depth-psychology, you will be just as entertained by this little box of tricks, adapted from a quartet of short stories by the same author, Robert Bloch. The four episodes are based around one house, which itself turns out to be the murderer - as the various tenants are warned from the start by a distinctly unusual letting-agent. (No spoiler there!) The moment you hear Ingrid Pitt say of Jon Pertwee "At heart, he's pure Gothic", you realise you're in cliché country, confirmed by the mere presence of Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee as well. Even allowing for the cost of hiring these horror panjandrums, we're looking at a mighty low-budget effort. But the intimate scale and atmosphere is all part of it, and a lot of special effects might well have spoilt things (as they did with the James Bonds).So we sit back and settle for the predictable. Creaking stairs... chimes at midnight... sceptical police... plus, of course, certain in-jokes of minimal subtlety (a Dracula filmset with a poster reading 'Please be a Blood Donor'). Everything is here.Denholm Elliott does pretty well for a less-usual horror man. Another newcomer to the genre, Nyree Dawn Porter, scores decisively over the disappointingly wooden Joanna Dunham. Tom Adams is hopelessly miscast as a poor man's Frankenstein, and should have gone back to acting the same old smoothies. And the weird-looking John Bennett as the detective, who is meant to represent dull normality, actually manages to look more Hammer-Horror than any of them.