Michael Roberts joins his friend Laura Stephens at an auction and talks her out of selling her newly-acquired mirror to a mysterious man who seems excessively eager to have it. When Michael takes it from her to have it appraised, its occult powers put him in the path of Allison, who has just run away from a secret society that wants to sacrifice her in order to conjure up a powerful devil.
The head of this society is Charles Randolph, an evil hypnotist whom Michael will find extremely dangerous.
Production Details
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 15 Nov 1980
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Cast & Crew
Red = Uncredited
Crew | Name | Age at Release | Birth | Hidden | Death | Age | Hammer Credited | Hammer Uncredited | Hammer Total |
Assistant Art Director | Bob Bell | 62 | 21 Mar 1918 | 6 Jun 2009 | 91 | 13 | 13 | ||
Assistant Art Director | Richard Rooker | 36 | 01 Jan 1944 | 01.01.1944 | 80 | 13 | 13 | ||
Assistant Director | David Munro | 38 | 24 Oct 1942 | 24.10.1942 | 81 | 4 | 1 | 5 | |
Camera Operator | Chic (Rodney) Anstiss | 49 | 1 Feb 1931 | 30 Jun 2011 | 80 | 12 | 12 | ||
Casting Director | Eileen Garstka | 13 | 13 | ||||||
Continuity | Marjorie Lavelly | 59 | 12 Apr 1921 | 22 Sep 2006 | 85 | 8 | 8 | ||
Costume Supervisor | Laura Nightingale | 35 | 35 | ||||||
Designer | Carolyn Scott | 23 | 23 | ||||||
Director | Don Sharp | 59 | 19 Apr 1921 | 14 Dec 2011 | 90 | 4 | 4 | ||
Director of Photography | Norman Warwick BSc | 60 | 14 Jul 1920 | 26 Aug 1994 | 74 | 5 | 5 | ||
Dubbing Editor | Brian Tilling | 51 | 1 Jan 1929 | 19 Feb 2011 | 82 | 13 | 13 | ||
Dubbing Editor | Jack Knight | 50 | 9 Aug 1930 | 7 Nov 1993 | 63 | 15 | 15 | ||
Dubbing Editor | Peter Best | 7 | 7 | ||||||
Dubbing Mixer | Otto Snel | 42 | 7 Dec 1937 | 18 Dec 2022 | 85 | 11 | 4 | 15 | |
Editor | Chris Barnes | 42 | 1 Jan 1938 | 5 Jun 2009 | 71 | 21 | 12 | 33 | |
Executive Producer | Brian Lawrence | 60 | 1 Jan 1920 | 1 Jan 2004 | 84 | 25 | 25 | ||
Executive Producer | David Reid | 42 | 01 Mar 1938 | 01.03.1938 | 86 | 13 | 13 | ||
Gaffer | Steve Birtles | 66 | 12 Nov 1914 | 1 Jan 2003 | 88 | 13 | 14 | 27 | |
Hairdresser | Betty Sherriff | 55 | 29 Sep 1925 | 1 Jan 2000 | 74 | 10 | 10 | ||
Make-up | Alan Brownie | 57 | 1 Jan 1923 | 21 Feb 2012 | 89 | 4 | 4 | ||
Music Composer | John McCabe | 41 | 21 Apr 1939 | 13 Feb 2015 | 75 | 6 | 6 | ||
Music Editor | Marcel Durham | 60 | 21 Jun 1920 | 1 Apr 2000 | 79 | 12 | 12 | ||
Musical Supervisor | Philip Martell | 73 | 6 Oct 1907 | 11 Aug 1993 | 85 | 104 | 1 | 105 | |
Producer | Roy Skeggs | 46 | 1 Apr 1934 | 29 Dec 2018 | 84 | 45 | 1 | 46 | |
Production Assistant | Margaret Nicholas | 13 | 13 | ||||||
Production Assistant | Mike Widd | 12 | 12 | ||||||
Production Manager | Ron Jackson | 45 | 1 Jan 1935 | 1 Jan 1993 | 58 | 34 | 1 | 35 | |
Production Runner | Callum McDougall | 13 | 13 | ||||||
Screenplay | David Fisher | 51 | 13 Apr 1929 | 10 Jan 2018 | 88 | 3 | 3 | ||
Sound Recordist | Stuart Edwards | 4 | 4 | ||||||
Special Effects | Ian Scoones | 40 | 20 Feb 1940 | 20 Jan 2010 | 69 | 13 | 9 | 22 | |
Story Editor | Anthony Read | 45 | 21 Apr 1935 | 21 Nov 2015 | 80 | 14 | 14 | ||
Cast | Name | Age at Release | Birth | Hidden | Death | Age | Hammer Credited | Hammer Uncredited | Hammer Total |
1st Girl | Sophie Thompson | 18 | 20 Jan 1962 | 20.01.1962 | 62 | 1 | 1 | ||
2nd Girl | Sharon Fussey | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Alison | Rosalyn Landor | 22 | 7 Oct 1958 | 7.10.1958 | 65 | 2 | 2 | ||
Andrews | Paul Darrow | 39 | 2 May 1941 | 3 Jun 2019 | 78 | 1 | 1 | ||
Auctioneer | Barry McDonald | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Charles Randolf | John Carson | 53 | 28 Feb 1927 | 5 Nov 2016 | 89 | 4 | 4 | ||
Laura | Barbara Ewing | 41 | 14 Jan 1939 | 14.01.1939 | 85 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
Michael Roberts | Ray Lonnen | 40 | 18 May 1940 | 11 Jul 2014 | 74 | 1 | 1 | ||
Tina | Caroline Langrishe | 22 | 10 Jan 1958 | 10.01.1958 | 66 | 1 | 1 |
Footnotes
Rosalyn Landor’s first film was Hammer’s The Devil Rides Out (1968).
John Carson played Dr Marcus in Hammer’s Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter (1974).
Sophie Thompson played the girlfriend in Torville & Mr Bean (1995).