Ruth, the reporter for the women’s section of a magazine, is assigned by her editor to participate in the ten-weeks course of a new weight-loss organization called “Think Thin”. According to a letter from a reader, the course is very masochistic and depressing, destroying the self-esteem of the patient. Ruth makes a friend in the course, who dies in a car crash.
During the funeral, an employee of the funeral house discloses weird events that are happening in his job. In her investigation, Ruth finds dark and macabre secrets.
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: 20th September 1980
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Cast & Crew
Red = Uncredited
Crew | Name | Age at Release | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Credits | Uncredited | Total Hammer | |
Assistant Art Director | Bob Bell | 62 | 21 Mar 1918 | 6 Jun 2009 | 91 | 13 | 13 | ||
Assistant Art Director | Richard Rooker | 36 | 1944 | 01.01.1944 | 80 | 13 | 13 | ||
Assistant Director | Ken Baker | 20 | 20 | ||||||
Camera Operator | Neil Binney | 49 | Jun 1931 | 01.06.1931 | 93 | 17 | 10 | 27 | |
Casting Director | Eileen Garstka | 13 | 13 | ||||||
Continuity | Lorely Farley | 41 | Apr 1939 | 01.04.1939 | 85 | 23 | 23 | ||
Costume Supervisor | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/laura-nightingale/# | 35 | 35 | ||||||
Designer | Carolyn Scott | 23 | 23 | ||||||
Director | Peter Sasdy | 45 | 27 May 1935 | 27.05.1935 | 89 | 10 | 10 | ||
Director of Photography | Frank Watts BSc | 51 | 13 Jun 1929 | 5 Mar 1994 | 64 | 16 | 16 | ||
Dubbing Editor | Bryan Tilling | 51 | 1929 | 19 Feb 2011 | 82 | 13 | 13 | ||
Dubbing Editor | Jack Knight | 50 | 9 Aug 1930 | 7 Nov 1993 | 63 | 15 | 15 | ||
Dubbing Mixer | Ken Scrivener | 61 | 19 Jan 1919 | 16 Jun 2006 | 87 | 2 | 2 | ||
Editor | Peter Weatherley GBFE | 50 | 1930 | Sep 2015 | 85 | 15 | 15 | ||
Executive Producer | Brian Lawrence | 60 | 1920 | 2004 | 84 | 26 | 26 | ||
Executive Producer | David Reid | 42 | 1 Mar 1938 | 01.03.1938 | 86 | 13 | 13 | ||
Gaffer | Steve Birtles | 65 | 12 Nov 1914 | 2003 | 88 | 14 | 15 | 29 | |
Hairdresser | Daphne Volmer | 52 | 15 Aug 1928 | 11 Jan 2006 | 77 | 17 | 17 | ||
Make-up | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/eddie-knight/# | 55 | 14 Mar 1925 | 27 Aug 1996 | 71 | 31 | 31 | ||
Music Composer | John McCabe | 41 | 21 Apr 1939 | 13 Feb 2015 | 75 | 6 | 6 | ||
Music Editor | Marcel Durham | 60 | 21 Jun 1920 | Apr 2000 | 79 | 13 | 13 | ||
Musical Supervisor | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/philip-martell/# | 72 | 6 Oct 1907 | 11 Aug 1993 | 85 | 104 | 1 | 105 | |
Producer | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/roy-skeggs/# | 46 | Apr 1934 | 29 Dec 2018 | 84 | 45 | 2 | 47 | |
Production Assistant | Margaret Nicholas | 13 | 13 | ||||||
Production Assistant | Mike Widd | 13 | 13 | ||||||
Production Manager | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/ron-jackson/# | 45 | 1935 | 1993 | 58 | 34 | 1 | 35 | |
Production Runner | Callum McDougall | 13 | 13 | ||||||
Screenplay | Jeremy Burnham | 49 | 28 May 1931 | 31 Dec 2020 | 89 | 6 | 6 | ||
Sound Recordist | John Bramall | 57 | 18 Aug 1923 | 13 Jun 2000 | 76 | 23 | 23 | ||
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 | ||
Title Designer | Chris Wood | 13 | 13 | ||||||
Cast | Name | Age at Release | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Credits | Uncredited | Total Hammer | |
Andrew | Gerrard Kelly | 21 | 27 May 1959 | 28 Oct 2010 | 51 | 1 | 1 | ||
Basil | Norman Bird | 55 | 30 Oct 1924 | 22 Apr 2005 | 80 | 5 | 5 | ||
Ben | Warren Clarke | 33 | 26 Apr 1947 | 12 Nov 2014 | 67 | 1 | 1 | ||
Cedric | George Innes | 42 | 8 Mar 1938 | 8.03.1938 | 86 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
Charlie | Peter Dean | 41 | 2 May 1939 | 02.05.1939 | 85 | 1 | 1 | ||
Dr Bradley | Michael Latimer | 39 | 6 Sep 1941 | 25 Jun 2011 | 69 | 2 | 2 | ||
Gwen | Dinah Sheridan | 60 | 17 Sep 1920 | 25 Nov 2012 | 92 | 1 | 1 | ||
Joan | Barbara Keogh | 59 | 21 Apr 1921 | 25 Oct 2005 | 84 | 2 | 2 | ||
Joyce | Paula Jacobs | 48 | 6 Mar 1932 | 26 Jun 2021 | 89 | 1 | 1 | ||
Rossi | Louis Mansi | 53 | 8 Nov 1926 | 6 Aug 2010 | 83 | 1 | 1 | ||
Rothwell | Kevin Stoney | 59 | 25 Jul 1921 | 20 Jan 2008 | 86 | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
Ruth | Julia Foster | 37 | 2 Aug 1943 | 02.08.1943 | 81 | 1 | 1 | ||
Security Guard | Walter Henry | 58 | 24 Oct 1921 | 21 Feb 2005 | 83 | 5 | 5 | ||
Sir Humphrey Chesterton | Richard Pearson | 62 | 1 Aug 1918 | 2 Aug 2011 | 93 | 1 | 1 | ||
The Butler | Roger Ostime | 52 | 5 Jun 1928 | 18 Dec 2019 | 91 | 1 | 1 | ||
Willis | James Cosmo | 32 | 24 May 1948 | 24.05.1948 | 76 | 1 | 1 |
Footnotes
Louis Mansi played Herr Engelbert von Smallhausen, in the BBC TV Series ‘Allo, ‘Allo.