Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

This is ultimately a movie about the very bad things that can happen when we don't address our unease, when we just try to brush it off, whether that's to fit in or to preserve our self-image.

There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

Emma and Peter move into a new home with their young daughter Sophie. What they aren't aware of is that the house holds a grizzly secret, the house was a scene of murder, a grizzly murder where a man killed his wife in a cruel fashion. Strange things start happening in the house, Sophie's beloved cat Timmy is found dead, props from the past start reappearing, but the main event is young Sophie's birthday party, when blood starts flowing out of the pipes, down the walls, covering everyone.They'd never get away with making this now, but made it was, and forth years later it still contains plenty of scares. Hammer had some what of a renaissance in the Seventies, producing some cracking films, as well as this series, which admittedly was hit and miss. This isn't my favourite episode, but I certainly think it's the most memorable.The parents are abominable, and get their just deserts. There are some good scares, the most terrifying thing you'll see though are the furnishings, what on Earth were they thinking?Watchable 7/10

Definitely one of the best of the "Hammer House of Horrors" series it starred the current (1980) heart throb Nicholas Ball who was just enjoying being the star of the top rating series "Hazell". He plays William who, along with Emma and little girl Sophia present themselves as a struggling young family with just enough for a deposit on a house with a murky past. They move in and start redecorating, friendly neighbours lend them a helping hand but all at once ghastly things start to happen. The pet cat dies in a horrific accident, a bloodied hand is found in the fridge and a huge knife turns up in odd places. The neighbours know the history - an old man went berserk and dismembered his wife, it's a house of horrors!!I didn't see this when it was released but as an older lady, wow it scared the living daylights out of me the first time I saw it, a couple of years ago!! There is the awful birthday party where the house literally bleeds to death all over the children's table!!Something is not quite right with the couple - for all their affection it seems they sleep in separate rooms and when they disappear - shock! horror! it seems they weren't actually married!! Then the truth is revealed - they are in league with the slimy real estate agent who has commissioned them to write their own version of "The Amityville Horror", where they clean up with a best seller and are able to live the good life in California!! But no-one thinks of the effect it all had on little Sophia - especially the death of her beloved cat Timmy!! You watch it, then you immediately want to watch it again to observe Sophia!!

Those good old days of Hammer, aah what a time that was. I remember that my dad used to watch it on air on ITV and sometimes if i had the nerve I watched with him. It must have been my first confrontation with the genre I love now. The season they made in 1980 is available for some time but I was a bit afraid to watch it again, not for the scary parts but when you take a trip down memorylane sometimes it's a big letdown. I had that before by watching Magnum and Dukes of Hazard, my god, so slow. Tales of The Unexpected couldn't deliver what it did when it was broadcasted so after 20 years I tried Hammer again. I will watch them in no particular order because it all stands on his own. Know for not being one of the best parts in the 13 episodes it's what I guessed a bit slow but still it delivers. Children are involved and they will confront a blood bath, a real one. Even dismemberment and a sliced cat passes the episode. If you place it in the time it was aired it was a bit gory for the time being. It isn't a Friday the 13th or like those slashers but is nice to watch. It clocks in at 50 minutes and that's really enough. The plot is what I guessed but with almost no effects it works. Hammer not on his best, but still it's Hammer.

Out of the first five episodes of Hammer's short-running "Hammer House of Horror" series, this fifth episode with the wonderful title "The House that Bled to Death" is arguably the creepiest one. As a great fan of the Hammer Studios' Gothic Horror films for many years, I wonder what took me so long to finally start watching the series quite recently. So far, I've only seen the first five episodes, and I have a strong feeling that the best is yet to come, but even if the series stays as entertaining as the first five episodes are, I will be satisfied. Whereas the second and third episodes were great to watch for their morbid and ingeniously dark sense of humor, this fifth entry is definitely the one out of the first five that delivers the most genuine Horror. The episode begins when an elderly man murders his wife out of unknown motivations. Years later, William (Nicholas Ball) and Emma Peters (Rachel Davies) move in the house with their little daughter Sophie (Emma Ridley). Soon after moving in, however, the family have to find out that there is something terribly wrong with the house, which is seemingly haunted... The second episode directed by Francis Megahy is a lot better than his mediocre previous entry, "Growing Pains" (Episode 4), and the fairly unknown actors deliver good performances. The film is also well-made in terms of effects, cinematography and score. "The House that Bled to Death" is a solid episode that delivers the elements that my fellow Hammer-fans should like to see in a Short Horror tale. The film delivers a creepy atmosphere, genuine scare moments and intelligent twists, and is suspenseful and highly entertaining from the beginning to the end. Overall, this is highly recommendable to Hammer fans.