The House That Bled to Death
Jack Gill Presents “Hammer House of Horror” Copyright MCMLXXX
Chips Productions Limited. All Rights Reserved
The characters and incidents portrayed and the names used herin are fictitious and any similarity to the name, character or history of any person is entirely co-incidental.
A Jack Gill Presentation for Chips Productions Ltd.
A Cinema Arts International Production in association with Hammer Films for ITC Entertainment – An OCC company.
Uk Transmission Date 11 Oct 1980
Storyline
After buying it for a good price, a couple and their young daughter move into a house that was the scene of a macabre murder. A series of terrifying events eventually force them to flee for their lives, but all is not as it seems.
Crew
| Function | Credited | |
| Assistant Art Director | Bob Bell | |
| Assistant Art Director | Richard Rooker | |
| Camera Operator | David Monro | |
| Casting Director | Eileen Garstka | |
| Continuity | Marjorie Lovell | |
| Costume Supervisor | Laura Nightingale | |
| Designer | Carolyn Scott | |
| Directed by | Tom Clegg | |
| Director of Photography | Norman Warwick BSc | |
| Dubbing Editors | Jack Night GBFE, Brian Tilling | |
| Dubbing Mixer | Otto Snall | |
| Editor | Bob Dearberg | |
| Executive Producers | Brian Lawrence, David Read | |
| Gaffer | Steve Birtles | |
| Hairdresser | Betty Sherriff | |
| Lighting | Group Five | |
| Make-up | Alan Brownie | |
| Music Composed by | James Barnard | |
| Music Editor | Maurice Durham | |
| Musical Supervisor | Philip Martell | |
| Produced by | Roy Skeggs | |
| Production Assistant | Margaret Nicholas | |
| Production Assistant | Mike Widd | |
| Production Manager | Ron Jackson | |
| Screenplay | David Lloyd | |
| Sound Recordist | Stuart Edwards | |
| Special Effects | Ian Scoones | |
| Story Editor | Anthony Read | |
| Story Editor | Anthony Read |
Cast
| Character | Actor | |
| 1st Mother | Jo Warne | |
| 2nd Mother | Sarah Keller | |
| A.J.Powers | Milton Johns | |
| Emma | Rachel Davies | |
| George | Brian Croucher | |
| Jean | Pat Maynard | |
| Journalist | Max Mason | |
| Journalist | Anna Perry | |
| Old Man | George Tovey | |
| Old Woman | Una Brandon-Jones | |
| Sister | Marilyn Finlay | |
| Sophia | Emma Ridley | |
| Sophia (older) | Joanne White | |
| William | Nicholas Ball |
Footnotes
In 2003 Channel 4 placed Hammer House of Horror at No. 50 in its “100 Scariest Moments” show. The clip shown was the children’s party scene in “The House That Bled to Death”.
Details were complied viewing the Episode.
Source of viewing copy – The Hammer Graveyard Collection