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")

qmtv Boring. I only made it to 18 minute mark. I just can't continue.Boring all the way. Music sucks. Cinematography is boring. Sets are boring. Acting and dialogue sucks. The story sucks.I just cannot sit through this nonsense.F, 1 star. Failure.

ofumalow This is competent but uninspired omnibus feature with no discernible style or atmosphere, despite the promising cast. The first segment is probably the best, by default (and Denholm Elliott is always worth watching), but none of them are memorable. Strangely, the house itself is invested with little real character--each story might just as well be set in different locations, the house has so little impact visually or otherwise. There are worse horror omnibus films, god knows, but given its reputation I expected considerably better.I usually run at the mouth, but this film left me with so little to say I am having to stretch out my review just to meet IMDb's minimum-lines requirement. Maybe this'll do it...

Foreverisacastironmess They really should have called it:"The Shanty that Trickled Mediocrity". I did not enjoy this picture, I just could not for the life of me get into it. All the tales were so weak, and horribly old-fashioned, and the 'twists' were laughable, it completely without any of that classic old Grand Guignol magic and feeling, there was no sense of the macabre, ghoulish fun that any halfway decent horror anthology should have. They were some of the worst tales I've seen yet in a movie like this. I didn't find any of them to be remotely interesting or even amusing in any strong way. Pretty much all the effects were just too cheap and horrible looking and for me it, among other things really wrecked the fun. "Best film ever", yeah, sure.. Nothing was scary! Or ironic, or funny. It was just dull and boring. Even Torture Garden was a better film and that in of itself was not a fantastically sparkling effort! This is the worst Amicus movie of this type that I personally have ever seen. I do however completely love the 72 classic"Tales from the Crypt", so it's not like I'm against the style of this or the time that it was made or anything.. This thoroughly weak effort is everything that masterful classic of Gothic good old-fashioned terror is not. ::: The house that is supposed to link all the stories together-which I would also like to point out was entirely devoid of blood, I think was supposed to be all eerie and impressive in appearance, but it just looked like an ordinary bland little slab-sided affair to me. It actually reminded me of my Granma's cosy old cottage! ::: I thought the lurky and sinister imaginary killer named Dominic was kinda creepy for about ten seconds but then he just came off as a bit too goony for me. The actor obviously didn't know the difference between playing it sinister and retarded. And what a ridiculous surprise twist at the end that was! Oh, the goofy Dominic wasn't really just an eerie figment of ugly, boring and totally unimpressive fat shlub Charles's imagination, and was actually plotting with his equally boring wife to drive him insane for some reason-Wait, he really was! Wait, what? Is that what they were saying? That's just silly. It doesn't make sense! ::: The waxworks story was truly terrible. Were those things supposed to be waxworks or mannequins? Whatever they were they all looked incredibly fake and were not frightening. I did think Peter Cushing was good at least. The man never acted badly a day in his life. RIP. I read somewhere that as he was playing his role in this his wife was dying. I thought there was a certain haunted, pained look to his face, something that was more than just good acting. Even his prestigious talent couldn't save the tale, however. The pathetic looking imitation head at the end was just too silly looking to me for it to have any real shock value. ::: I didn't find the little girl in the third story to be particularly scary or ominous either. She just looked like an ordinary little girl to me, although granted there was one scene where she did almost have me for a second. It was the part where she's talking about her mother as she gazes into the fire. I thought Bruce Lee did a good job of appearing terrified of a sweet little girl, which is pretty funny when you think about it! I think they got the idea for the end of Creepshow from this story. ::: I found story the fourth to be a slightly amusing. I thought the horror parodying worked OK. It stank like the rest of course. The final scene with the bald guy talking was practically identical to the end of Tales from the Crypt. IE: blah, blah, blah, looks at camera-"perhaps, you?" The major difference being that film did it about a thousand times better. ::: I thought I'd enjoy this as I have usually enjoyed the other Amicus anthologies that I've seen. And I was surprised that Robert Bloch had written the stories as he's written some of the best short horror stories I've ever read. I gave this a four, for being basically watchable, but not particularly fun or very enjoyable in any meaningful way. If you want to watch some decent Amicus anthologies, I would strongly recommend you watch some of the later ones. Good day!