Hammer House of Horror (Complete Series) - 5-DVD Set

Hammer House of Horror (Complete Series) - 5-DVD Set (DVD) (*)

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Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Dolby TrueHD )
English ( DTS 5.1 )
English ( Mono )
English ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
702 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Commentary
Featurette
Interactive Menu
Multi-DVD Set
Photo Gallery
Scene Access
Special Edition

Movie filmed in 1980 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Don Leaver

Written By:
Anthony Read

Actors:
Jon Finch ..... David Winter
Patricia Quinn ..... Lucinda Jessop
Prunella Gee ..... Mary Winter
Ian McCulloch ..... Dr. Charles Henderson
Lennard Pearce ..... Rector
Margaret Anderson ..... Nursing Sister

Synopsis:

Hammer House of Horror is one of the best horror series ever broadcast on television. With the master of horror, Peter Cushing, as the star, its finesse was assured from the start. Grotesque and sinister, many episodes curdle the blood. This is not for the faint hearted. From Satanic nightmares to houses literally bleeding to death, Hammer House of Horror has it all and presents us with a vivid picture of real fear. Your worst nightmares come true in each episode. Screen siren Diana Dors complements Peter Cushing's demonic demonstrations in the scariest series you are ever likely to see. Hold on to your hearts for this series is bound to make you scream.
This collection is presented in full color.
Episodes List:
# The House That Bled To Death
# The Silent Scream
# The Two Faces Of Evil
# The Mark Of Satan
# Witching Time
# Visitor From The Grave
# Rude Awakening
# Charlie Boy
# Children Of The Full Moon
# The Thirteenth Renunion
# The Carpathian Eagle
# Guardian Of The Abyss
# Growing Pains

Hammer's trademark gothic style permeates this suspenseful thriller, considered one of the acclaimed British studio's superior efforts, thanks largely to the directorial skills of Peter Sasdy. This marked his last feature-length collaboration with the studio until 1980, when he returned to direct installments of the Hammer House of Horror television series. In the film's prologue, young Anna, the infant daughter of the notorious Jack the Ripper, witnesses her mother's brutal murder at her father's hands. Years later, the lovely teenage Anna (Angharad Rees) is plagued by traumatic memories of the incident and repressed impulses in which love and death are inextricably linked. These impulses finally turn homicidal when her emotions are stirred, spelling doom for anyone who arouses her. Anna's case is handled by the repressed psychoanalyst, Dr. Pritchard (Eric Porter), whose growing physical attraction to the girl could result in far worse than a mere breach of professional ethics. Sasdy weaves the psychological elements through the story with finesse, paralleling the sexual tension between the doctor and his patient with the mounting horror of the inevitable outcome.

Season 1
Season 1, Episode 1: Witching Time
Original Air Date-12 April 1980
At the isolated Woodstock Farm in rural England, workaholic composer David Winter (Jon Finch) is depressed because he feels that his wife, actress Mary (Prunella Gee), is unfaithful. In a dark and stormy night, Lucinda Jessup (Patricia Quinn), the ghost of a witch from the 17th Century and former dweller of the farm, arrives in the barn and possesses David. Mary fights against Lucinda trying to recover David.
Season 1, Episode 2: The Thirteenth Reunion
Original Air Date-20 September 1980
Ruth, the reporter for the womens page of a magazine, is assigned by her editor to participate of a ten weeks course of a new weight organization called 'Think Thin'. In accordance with the letter of a reader, the system would be very masochist and depressive, destructing the self-esteem of the patient. Ruth makes a friend in the course, and he dies in a car crash. In 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.
Season 1, Episode 3: Rude Awakening
Original Air Date-27 September 1980
A real estate broker finds himself having dreams that seem to be incredibly real. They are so real, in fact, that he begins to wonder which is the dream and which is reality.
Season 1, Episode 4: Growing Pains
Original Air Date-4 October 1980
After the death of their son William Morton (Christopher Reilly), the diplomat Laurie Morton (Barbara Kellerman) and her husband, the scientist Terence Morton (Gary Bond) adopt a boy, James (Matthew Blakstadt). From the moment James moves to Morton's house in the country on, weird things happen with the family.
Season 1, Episode 5: The House That Bled to Death
Original Air Date-11 October 1980
William and Emma Peters buy an old house where a brutal murder happened years ago in very bad condition with the intention of restoring it. They move with their daughter Sophie, and become friends of their neighbors Jean and George Evans. However, eerie events happen in the house, inclusive the death of Sophie's cat. In Sophie's birthday party, a pipe leaks blood and they leave the place, disclosing a secret later.
Season 1, Episode 6: Charlie Boy
Original Air Date-18 October 1980
A carved African fetish with voodoo powers has a dangerous mind of its own.
Season 1, Episode 7: The Silent Scream
Original Air Date-25 October 1980
When Chuck Spillers (Brian Cox) is released from prison, he tells his wife Annie (Elaine Donnelly) that he had been visited by an old man, Martin Blueck (Peter Cushing), along his sentence for robbing a safe, and Blueck had given some money for him to help a fresh start in life. On the next morning, Chuck pays a visit to Blueck in his pet shop to thank the support and is invited to work for him feeding his animals in his private zoo while he is traveling. Blueck explains that he trains animals, conditioning then to obey some signals. A couple of days later, Chuck sees a safe in the store, and decide to open it, being trapped in a weird situation and disclosing the truth about the sadistic Blueck.
Season 1, Episode 8: Children of the Full Moon
Original Air Date-1 November 1980
A married couple, lost in the woods, stumble across a creepy mansion and its inhabitants - an overly-kind old women and deadly wolf children that scour the country-side looking for victims.
Season 1, Episode 9: Carpathian Eagle
Original Air Date-8 November 1980
Murder victims are being found with the hearts cut out. A police detective is assigned to find and stop the killer.
Season 1, Episode 10: Guardian of the Abyss
Original Air Date-15 November 1980
A scrying glass puts an antiques exporter in the path of a woman fleeing from devil worshipers and the evil hypnotist who leads them.
Season 1, Episode 11: Visitor from the Grave
Original Air Date-22 November 1980
A former mental patient kills her would-be rapist, but his corpse returns from its secret grave.
Season 1, Episode 12: The Two Faces of Evil
Original Air Date-29 November 1980
A family on holiday stop to pick up a mysterious hitch-hiker.
Season 1, Episode 13: The Mark of Satan
Original Air Date-6 December 1980
A man sees the number nine everywhere and is convinced the forces of evil are at work.

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