The House That Dripped Blood (1971) poster
1971 · anthology · amicus · bloch

The House That Dripped Blood

Directed by Peter Duffell1h 42m1971
ElsewhereIMDb6.59kRT92%Metacritic55TMDB6.4182
  • sombre
  • brisk
  • intense
  • cold
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Sombre, kinetic, measured anthology / amicus, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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A Scotland Yard investigator looks into four mysterious cases involving an unoccupied house.

Our read · The House That Dripped Blood (1971) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive anthology · amicus · bloch entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want classy Amicus horror anthologies with Lee, Cushing, and Pertwee.

ends unsettlingit stays with yousteady all the waygrips from the openattention 3/5earns its length
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
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Skip it tonightOld British horror anthologies feel creaky or too tame tonight.

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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